Matthew Fox is the author of many books on spirituality and culture that have been translated into 69 languages. He holds a doctorate in the history and theology of spiritualities from the Institut Catholique de Paris and was a priest in the Dominican Order for more than 30 years before being silence by the Vatican and then dismissed. Since then, he founded the University of Creation Spirituality (UCS) in Oakland, CA and became an Episcopal priest. A new school called the Fox Institute for Creation Spirituality has also recently been launched in Boulder, CO. He lives in the Bay Area of northern California. Among the awards granted him have been the Gandhi-King-Ikeda Peace Award from Morehouse College, the Humanities Award of the Sufi International Association of Sufism, and the Tikkun Ethics Award. www.matthewfox.org