Issue 3

Contributors

Dale C. Allison, Jr ., Ph.D., is research associate at Friends University, Wichita, Kansas. He is the author of numerous articles and several books, most recently The New Moses: A Matthean Typology , as well as co-author, with W.D. Davies, of the three-volume International Critical Commentary on Matthew.

Owen Barfield is a barrister, philosopher, and literary critic who is considered by many to be among the most brilliant thinkers of the twentieth century. His books include Poetic Diction , Saving the Appearances , What Coleridge Thought , and The Rediscovery of Meaning and Other Essays . A friend and intellectual sparring partner of C.S. Lewis, Barfield has influenced a number of important writers, including Saul Bellow and John Lukacs.

John Peters-Campbell lives in Colorado and Cape Cod. He was educated at Cornell, and teaches the history of art at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He writes about nineteenth and twentieth century art. His book, Framing the Wilderness , about Eastern painters who came out to paint the American West, will be published in 1994.

Terrence Dempsey, S.J. is the founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) at St. Louis University. His doctorate in religion and the arts is from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. He has written on the visual arts for a variety of publications.

Matthew Dickerson teaches in the department of mathematics and computer science at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is the author of a novel, The Finnsburg Encounter , published by Crossway Books.

Andre Dubus III is the author of The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, published in hardcover in January 1989 by E.P.Dutton, in paperback in January 1990 by Plume Contemporary Fiction, and Bluesman , a novel to be published in hardcover in the spring of 1993 with Faber and Faber. His short stories have appeared in Playboy, Yankee Magazine, Crazyhorse , and The Crescent Review . He has a short story forthcoming in the spring 1993 issue of Epoch magazine. In 1989, his story "The Cage Keeper" was adapted for the stage at The University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is the winner of the 1985 National Magazine Award for Fiction, and has written book reviews for America magazine and The Los Angeles Times Book Review . He teaches writing part-time at Emerson College in Boston. He is married to actress/dancer/choreographer Fontaine Dollas Dubus. They live in Newburyport, Massachusetts with their son, Austin Christopher.

Kurt Hoeksema was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1966. He lives in Chicago and writers for Cornerstone magazine. He is a community member at Jesus People USA Evangelical Covenant Church.

John L. Moore , novelist and cattle rancher, lives near Miles City, Montana. He is the author of The Breaking of Ezra Riley, a novel, and Letters to Jess , a collection of meditations and stories. He is currently working on two works of fiction that will be published by Thomas Nelson.

Theodore Prescott is chairman of visual and theatrical arts at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. He is a sculptor who has exhibited widely and completed two large public commissions. He is also on the board of CIVA, Christians in Visual Arts.

Jeanne Murray Walker 's fourth book, Stranger Than Fiction, won the Quarterly Review of Literature's International Competition and was published in the fall of 1992. Her first play, "Stories From The National Enquirer ," was performed in London last summer. She teaches at The University of Delaware.

Since 1964, Tom Willett has been a musician, talent agent, personal manager, and record company executive. After seven years as head of Artists and Repertoire for Word Record's Los Angeles office, he now works in New York as Executive Director of Marketing with Word/Epic.