Princess Jones is a freelance writer based in North Carolina. Jones was a feature editorial assistant at The New York Post and has worked for Religion Unplugged and the New York Amsterdam News. She is an alumna of Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Stephen Pluháček is a faculty member in theology at Marquette University.
Heidi Bostic is dean of the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts & Sciences at Marquette University.
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MaryBeth Scalice, MA. Ed.D. is a therapist and teacher from Milton, Massachusetts, president of the Foundation of Open Hearts and author of Write, Beloved, Write: The Living Breathing Poetry of God.
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