contributors

Jon Luoma

Warren R. Ross

Lisa Watts

Julie Parker Amery

Rev. Stefan M. Jonasson

Jon Luoma, author of three books on environmental issues, writes about the moral dilemmas of global warming in our cover story. A contributing editor at Audubon , Luoma has written for National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine . He is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Jersey Shore in Pomona, New Jersey.

Warren R. Ross, longtime UU World contributing editor, profiles UU prison ministry initiatives. Ross, a member of the Community Unitarian Church in White Plains, New York, is the author of Funding Justice , a history of the UU Funding Panel to be published by Skinner House this spring.

Greg Hines says General Assembly is the cure for "denominational shallowness". He is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville, Florida, where he presented a version of this essay in August 2004.

UU World contributing editor Donald E. Skinner describes the greening of General Assembly. He is the editor of the InterConnections newsletter for church leaders and is a member of the Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church in Overland Park, Kansas.

Lisa Watts, a dedicated runner, first presented "Exercise as Spiritual Play" in a service at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Wayne County, in Wooster, Ohio.

Reflections contributors include Julie Parker Amery, director of religious education at the First Religious Society of Newburyport, Massachusetts; the Rev. Stefan M. Jonasson, minister of the Unitarian Church in Arborg, Manitoba; and Anika Stafford, a former director of religious education at the Free Church Unitarian in Blaine, Washington. Artists include Gwendolyn A. Magee, a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Jackson, Mississippi, and Laurel Garcia Colvin, a member of the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York.

Doug Muder reviews two books that help explain religious conservatives' worldview. He is a member of First Parish in Bedford, Massachusetts, and writes at www.gurus.net/dougdeb.

The Rev. Charles Howe marks the bicentennial of Hosea Ballou's Treatise on Atonement (Looking Back). Howe is minister emeritus of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Wilmington, North Carolina, and author most recently of The Essential Clarence Skinner: A Brief Introduction to His Life and Writings (Skinner House, 2005).

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