Rev. John R. Mabry, Ph.D. is Director of ChI's Spiritual Direction program and is ChI core faculty in the areas of spiritual direction, world religions, and interfaith theology. He earned a Masters Degree in Spirituality from the Institute of Culture and Creation Spirituality (now called the Sophia Center at Holy Names College), and a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is pastor of Grace North Church in Berkeley, CA, an interfaith liturgical community, and serves as bishop for the Old Catholic Order of Holy Wisdom. He has served as editor of Creation Spirituality magazine, and of PRESENCE: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction. His published books include The Way of Thomas (O Books, 2007); The Monster God: Coming to Terms with the Dark Side of Divinity (O Books, 2008); Faith Styles: Ways People Believe (Morehouse Publishing, 2006); Noticing the Divine: An Introduction to Interfaith Spiritual Guidance (Morehouse Publishing, 2006); God Is a Great Underground River: Articles, Essays and Homilies on Interfaith Spirituality (Apocryphile Press, 2006); Heretics, Mystics & Misfits (Apocryphile Press, 2005); and God As Nature Sees God: A Christian’s Reading of the Tao Te Ching (Element/Penguin USA, 1994). His recent research includes early Jewish Christian literature, especially the Gospel of Thomas. He sings for two Bay Area progressive rock bands, Metaphor www.metaphor.org, and Mind Furniture www.mindfurniture.com.