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Kerry Egan

is a mother, hospice chaplain, and writer. 

She is the author of the best-seller On Living (Riverhead/Penguin) about how the dying make meaning of their lives and Fumbling: A Pilgrimage Tale of Love, Grief, and Spiritual Renewal on the Camino de Santiago (Doubleday, 2004) which was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. 

Her work has appeared in many national print and online publications, including CNN.com, where her essays on her work in hospice have been read over two million times, and she’s been featured on CNN’s Morning Edition and on the PBS Newshour and PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly.

She received an M. Div. from Harvard University and B.A. from Washington and Lee University, and lives with her husband and children in Columbia, South Carolina.

Pamela Cooper-White

is a writer, educator, Episcopal priest, pastoral psychotherapist, and administrator. 

Formerly on the faculty of Lutheran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, and Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA, and director of the Center of Women and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA, she is the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of Psychology & Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Cooper-White is a prolific and ground-breaking author whose books include Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy and Theology in Relational Perspective (2007); Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling (2004); Braided Selves: Collected Essays on Multiplicity, God, and Persons (Cascade Books, 2011); and The Cry of Tamar: Violence Against Women and the Church’s Response (1995; 2nd revised edition 2012); and more recently Gender, Violence and Justice: Collected Essays on Violence against Women (Cascade, 2018); Old and Dirty Gods: Religion, Antisemitism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2017); Sabina Spielrein at the Beginning of Psychoanalysis: Image, Thought, and Language with Twelve New Translations, co-edited with Felicity Kelcourse (2018).