John Killinger, now a free-lance writer and lecturer, has taught at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Princeton Theological Seminary. He was senior minister of First Presbyterian Church of Lynchburg, BA, and First congregational Church of Los Angeles, CA. He is author of Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise and Enter Every Trembling Heart, both Abingdon collections of prayers and affirmations for Christian worship, as well as Winter Soulstice: An Autobiographical Meditation on the Spirituality of Our Elder Years, coming in 2005, by Crossroad.