Ellen Birx is an authorized Zen teacher and Dharma successor of Roshi Robert Kennedy, SJ. She holds a PhD in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing from the University of Texas at Austin and is Professor Emerita at Radford University. She is the author of several books including Selfless Love (Wisdom, 2014) and Embracing the Inconceivable:...
Tim Simmons is a former Mercy Volunteer, a Mercy Associate and a music teacher at Delaware Valley Friends School in Paoli, PA. A lifelong drummer and multi-instrumentalist, he has developed a music curriculum for adolescents with learning differences called “Song in Everything”. He also recently released a new album called “Transforma: Light Returning”. You can hear it wherever you...
Author and storyteller, Sister of Mercy Joy Clough offers imaginative stories that present listeners with fresh insights into familiar scriptural scenes. Her hope is that the invitation to creative reflection on well-known Gospel passages will nourish listeners’ faith lives and spiritual practice in the long tradition of imaginative prayer. Now retired, Joy has ministered in teaching, communications and public relations, congregational administration...
Christine Marie Eberle is the author of Finding God in Ordinary Time. In 2019, she stepped down as Director of Campus Ministry at Gwynedd Mercy University to pursue a freelance ministry of writing, speaking and retreat facilitation: passionately connecting Scripture, spirituality, and everyday life.
Michelle Sherman is the Campus Minister for Retreats at Villanova University. Since 2008, she has served in pastoral ministries in New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; and Worcester, MA. She earned a Master of Arts and Certificate in Lay Ministry at Villanova and completed the Spiritual Direction Formation Program at Cranaleith Spiritual Center. Michelle serves on...
Valerie Lee-Jeter is a native Philadelphian and forty-year member of St. Vincent De Paul Parish where she is also the Music Director. She earned a bachelor’s degree in music education from Chestnut Hill College and a master’s degree in theological studies with a concentration in liturgy from LaSalle University, both in Philadelphia. Valerie taught elementary...
Megan Brown, RSM, D. Min., is a member of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English, a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Counseling and a Doctor of Ministry degree in Applied Ministries. Fascinated with the interplay of psychology and spirituality, Megan is also a spiritual director. She has directed...
