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Michael Barnes, SJ, teaches theology and religious studies at Heythrop College, University of London, where he is also co-director of the Centre for Christianity and Interreligious Dialogue. He has written various books and articles on inter-religious relations, most recently Theology and the Dialogue of Religions (2002). He also runs the De Nobili Centre for Dialogue in Southall, a strongly multicultural and multi-faith area of West London. Diana Butler Bass is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Project on Congregations of Intentional Practice, a Lilly Endowment-funded research study of contemporary mainline Protestantism at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. She is the author of four books on American Christianity, including Strength for the Journey: A Pilgrimage of Faith in Community (2002) and The Practicing Congregation: Imagining A New Old Church (2004). In addition to teaching and writing, she has served on a number of national committees of the Episcopal Church (USA) and on the staff of an Episcopal congregation as director of adult education. Michael Battle is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. He previously taught at Duke University Divinity School and the School of Theology at the University of the South (Sewanee). He has also worked as an inner-city chaplain with Tony ... log in or subscribe to read full text