Reflections on the Psalms. Steven Croft

       About the authors

      Ian Adams is a poet, writer, photographer and artist. He is the creator of the daily Morning Bell, author of Unfurling:poems, Running Over Rocks: spiritual practices to transform tough times and Cave Refectory Road: monastic rhythms for contemporary living. Ian is an Anglican priest, director of StillPoint, co-founder of Beloved Life and Spirituality Adviser for CMS. info: www.about.me/ianadams

      Christopher Cocksworth is the Bishop of Coventry. He read Theology at the University of Manchester. After teaching in secondary education, he trained for ordination and pursued doctoral studies, serving in parochial and chaplaincy ministry and in theological education, latterly as Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge.

      Joanna Collicutt is the Karl Jaspers Lecturer in Psychology and Spirituality at Ripon College Cuddesdon and Advisor on the Spiritual Care of Older People for Oxford Diocese. Her professional background is in clinical psychology, but her current area of academic interest is psychology of religion and, in particular, psychological approaches to reading the Bible. She also ministers in a West Oxfordshire parish.

      Gillian Cooper is a writer, teacher, and Old Testament enthusiast. She has previously worked as a theological educator, a cathedral verger, and an administrator. She has recently moved to London, but still escapes whenever she can to the windswept beaches of Norfolk and Orkney.

      Steven Croft is the Bishop of Sheffield. He is the author of a number of books including Jesus People: what next for the church? and The Advent Calendar, a novel for children and adults, and a co-author of Pilgrim: a course for the Christian journey.

      Paula Gooder is Theologian in Residence for the Bible Society. She is a writer and lecturer in biblical studies, author of a number of books including Journey to the Empty Tomb, The Meaning is in the Waiting and Heaven, and a co-author of the Pilgrim course. She is also a Reader in the Church of England.

      Peter Graystone works for Church Army, where he oversees pioneering projects that take the Good News way beyond the walls of a church to profoundly unchurched people. One of those locations is the internet, and he edits Christianity.org.uk, which gives free, confidential, reliable information about the Christian faith. He is a Church Times columnist and theatre reviewer.

      Malcolm Guite, the Chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge, is a poet and singer–songwriter, and is the author of What do Christians Believe? (Granta 2006), Faith, Hope and Poetry (Ashgate 2010), Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year (Canterbury 2012), The Singing Bowl (Canterbury 2013) and Word in the Wilderness (Canterbury 2014).

      Helen-Ann Hartley is the 7th Bishop of Waikato in the Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki, New Zealand. Prior to her consecration, Helen-Ann was Dean at the College of St John the Evangelist in Auckland, New Zealand. She was ordained deacon and priest in the Diocese of Oxford and served as Director of Biblical Studies at Ripon College Cuddesdon prior to her move to New Zealand in 2012.

      Barbara Mosse is a writer and retired Anglican priest. She was a lecturer on the MA in Christian Spirituality at Sarum College, Salisbury. Earlier ministerial posts included some parish work, alongside chaplaincy experience in prison, university, community mental health and hospital. She is the author of The Treasures of Darkness (Canterbury 2003), Encircling the Christian Year (BRF 2012) and Welcoming the Way of the Cross (BRF 2013).