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John Borelli (borellij@georgetown.edu) is Special Assistant for Interreligious Initiatives for the President of Georgetown University and National Coordinator for Interreligious Dialogue and Relations for the Jesuit Conference of the United States. From 1987-2003, he served as associate director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He has been a consultor to the Holy See's Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue since 1990. He writes and lectures on ecumenical and interreligious relations, Catholic theology, Islam and Christian-Muslim relations, and the religious traditions of Asia. He received a Ph.D. in theology and history of religions from Fordham University (1976) and was a university and college professor in New York for twelve years before he and his wife moved their family to Washington, DC.
James Bretzke, S.J. (bretzkesj@usfca.edu) is a member of the Wisconsin Province and Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco and for 2007-8 Visiting Professor of Theology at Marquette University. Bretzke also has served as regular Visiting Professor of Moral Theology at the Loyola School of Theology in Manila, Philippines. Previously he taught at Sogang University in Korea, the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and the Jesuit School of Theology/Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.Raymond Bucko, S.J. (bucko@creighton.edu) is a member of the New York Province professor of anthropology in the department of sociology and anthropology and the director of the Native American Studies department at Creighton University. He works extensively with Native peoples, especially on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation and is particularly interested in interreligious as well as ecumenical dialogue. Fr. Bucko teaches a course in the anthropology of religion and is developing a course on the history of Christian missions among North American Indian peoples. He is also the webmaster for the Jesuit Interreligious Dialogue web site.
Glen Chun, S.J. (chunglen@gmail.com) is a member of the Chicago Province and an M Div student at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. His experience in interreligious dialogue is lived, rather than professional. He grew up in an extended family with intermingled Buddhist, Shinto and Christian traditions and practices, and has lived and worked in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has a particular interest in popular religiosity as a natural medium for a lived co-mingling of religious beliefs and practices, as well as the common ground found among religions and religious practices, such as in spirituality.
Francis X. Clooney, S.J. (fclooney@hds.harvard.edu) is a member of the New York Province and the Parkman Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. He studies the Hindu religious traditions and their implications for Christian theology. Most recently he is the author of Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary (OUP, 2005), and Fr. Bouchet’s India: An 18th Century Jesuit’s Encounter with Hinduism (Satya Nilayam Publications, forthcoming).
Carol Corgan (ccorgan@gonzaga.org) is a doctoral student in the Semitic and Egyptian Languages Department at The Catholic University of America. She teaches Theology at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. She and her husband, Joe, are active in the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation and chaired the HCEF 7th Annual International Conference in the Fall of 2005.
Elizabeth Groppe (groppe@xavier.edu) is associate professor of systematic theology at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. She earned her doctorate at Notre Dame and published her dissertation "Yves Congar's Theology of the Holy Spirit" (Oxford University Press, 2004). Her current work includes a study of the implications of the recent transformation of Christianity's understanding of its relationship to Judaism for the theology of the Holy Spirit.
Donald Hawkins, S.J. (dhawkins@hnjchurch.org) is a member of the New Orleans Province and serves as “province consultant for ecumenical matters.” He is pastor at Holy Name of Jesus Church in New Orleans. He has worked in high-school and college campus ministry and spent many years teaching in high school.
J. P. Horrigan, S.J. ( jphjph@web.ca ) is a member of the Canadian Jesuits (CSU) and assigned to Interfaith Ministry in the Toronto area, through Our Lady of Lourdes parish. His focus is Interfaith Marriages / Families. Prior to his current assignment he did most of his Jesuit studies at Jñana Deep, Pune India and Vidyajyoti, Delhi India. Upon completing a fifteen year assignment to the eastern Himalayas (Darjeeling India) he worked in Province Administration and the International office of Canadian Jesuits. His current endeavor dates from 2003.
Paul Macke, S.J. (pmacke@jesuit.org) is a member of the Chicago Province and Secretary for Pastoral Ministry and Jesuit Life for the Jesuit Conference of the United States in Washington, DC. He is a professional Pastoral Psychotherapist who previously spent eighteen years in Alaska working with indigenous people and others as a pastor, ministry training, pastoral counselor, and most recently was Executive Director of Holy Spirit Center in Anchorage, Alaska. He serves on the Advisory Board as a liaison with the Jesuit Provincials of the United States.
Erik Ranstrom (ranstroe@bc.edu) is a doctoral student in the comparative theology program at Boston College. He is the co-coordinator of the Jesuit sponsored graduate student conference on comparative theology, inter-religious dialogue, theology of religions, and missiology held annually at Boston College. Prior to this Erik developed a world religions curriculum for Holyoke Catholic High School in Granby MA.
James D. Redington, S.J. (jredington@jstb.edu) is a member of the Maryland Province, and teaches interreligious dialogue, theology of religions, and Hinduism in the Dwan Family Chair of Interreligious and Ecumenical Dialogue, at the Jesuit School of Theology/Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He has spent six years each living in India and Africa. And he is a non-resident Fellow of the Woodstock Theological Center, at Georgetown University.
James W. Reites, S.J. (jreites@calprov.org) is a member of the....Patrick J. Ryan, S.J. (ryansj@fordham.edu) is a member of the New York Province the Vice President for University Mission and Ministry at Fordham University. He has lived and worked for 26 years in Africa, principally in Nigeria and Ghana. He has taught at universities in Ghana, Rome and at Fordham, mainly in the area of Islamic studies. Most recently (1999-2005) he was the President of Loyola Jesuit College, a coeducational and boarding secondary school in Abuja, Nigeria. He has written about Islam and Christianity in Africa and has also written popular homiletic material.
John Saliba, S.J. (salibaja@udmercy.edu) originates from Malta and is a member of the Detroit Province. He is adjunct professor of Religious Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy where he has taught since 1970. He teaches history of religions and theology of religions and introduces students to the academic study of religion. His major area of expertise is the new religious movements. His education background includes cultural anthropology and religious education.
Carl Starkloff, S.J., (starklcf@slu.edu) is a member of the Missouri Province and, with background in mission work and popular education among native peoples in the USA and Canada, is Professor Emeritus at Regis College, Toronto School of Theology, where he still teaches one course annually in mission and culture issues. He is also an adjunct professor at St. Louis University. He teaches and researches in inculturation, syncretism and the relation between theology and cultural anthropology. His dialogical interest is in Christianity and aboriginal religion.James Walsh, S.J. ( walshj@georgetown.edu) is a member of the Maryland Province and Associate Professor of Theology at Georgetown University. His area of expertise is Sacred Scripture, with a specialty in Old Testament/Hebrew Scriptures and a particular focus on Israelite origins. He has taught at Georgetown since 1973, after a semester teaching at Weston (Cambridge MA) and a semester teaching at Woodstock (NYC). He is a member of the editorial board for the CBA revision of the (1970) New American Bible Old Testament.
Chris Weekly, S.J. (cweekly@nwjesuits.org) is from the Oregon Province, where he serves as Pastor of St. Joseph Church in Seattle. Raised an Episcopalian, Chris became a Catholic in his college years, and has long been interested in Christian ecumenical concerns. The scope of his interfaith interests was broadened through two years spent on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD, and more recently via Tertianship in South India and Sri Lanka. Trained in sacramental theology, Chris is interested in comparative experiences of worship and prayer. Ministering in the Pacific Northwest with the largely “un-churched” population offers him a unique perspective for interreligious labors.
   
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