Erin Brigham directs the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition and teaches in the department of theology and religious studies at the University of San Francisco. She also directs the St. Ignatius Institute, a living-learning community rooted in academics, spirituality, and solidarity. Her books include Sustaining the Hope for Unity: Ecumenical Dialogue in a Postmodern World (Liturgical Press, 2012) and Church as Field Hospital: Toward an Ecclesiology of Sanctuary (Liturgical Press, 2021). She grew up in the Rocky Mountains of Western Montana and now lives in the Richmond District with her family.Maureen H. O’Connell taught for eight years in the theology department at Fordham University before serving as a professor of Christian ethics at La Salle University in Philadelphia. She is the author of three books including If These Walls Could Talk: Community Muralism and the Beauty of Justice (Liturgical Press, 2012). She is on the board of the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies and is a member of St. Vincent De Paul parish in Germantown, where she is also a member of POWER (Philadelphians Organizing to Witness, Empower, and Rebuild). She holds a BA in history from Saint Joseph’s University and a PhD in theological ethics from Boston College.
