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Dr. Sallie McFague is Distinguished Theologian in Residence at Vancouver School of Theology.  She is a prolific author whose works include Metaphorical Theology; Models of God; The Body of God; Super, Natural Christians; Life Abundant and her most recent publication, A New Climate for Theology:  God, the World, and Global Warming (2008).  For more information about Dr McFague go to www.vst.edu/main/people/faculty/mcfague.

Doug Todd is an award-winning writer on religious and spiritual affairs for the Vancouver Sun.  He has recently edited a series of essays entitled Cascadia on the religious and spiritual life of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, a region frequently called ‘Cascadia’.  To learn more about Mr Todd visit www.vancouversun.com/columnists/t_z.html.

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Bishop Mark McDonald is the National Indigenous Anglican Bishop for the Anglican Church of Canada.  In addition to his ministry among aboriginal Anglicans in Canada, Bishop MacDonald has also edited a collection of essays on the inculturation of worship.  Visit www.anglican.ca/im to learn more about Bishop MacDonald’s ministry.

The Rev’d Karen Ward is the Abbess/Vicar of the Church of Apostles in Seattle, Washington.  A well-known spokesperson for the emerging church movement, Pastor Ward participated in the National Worship Conference 2008 in Montreal and will offer her perspectives on the congregation as an expression of a ‘new monasticism’, a religious community witnessing to the faith in changing contexts.  News about her community in Seattle can be found at www.apostleschurch.org/home.php.