The “All About Mary” page at the University of Dayton in Ohio, a Marianist Catholic college, is the portal to the Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute, one of the largest collections of resources on the Virgin Mary in the world.

Jay Marshall wrote Thanking and Blessing: The Sacred Art. He is dean of the Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Ind., and a Quaker minister.

Stephen C. Berkwitz wrote “History and Gratitude in Theravada Buddhism,” which appeared in the September 2003 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. He heads the department of religious studies at Missouri State University in Springfield.

Barbara J. McClure is an associate professor of pastoral theology at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. Her interests include human flourishing and spiritual formation, and she has worked as a pastoral counselor. She can speak to the idea of gratitude and human flourishing.

Louise L. Hay wrote Gratitude: A Way of Life. She is the owner and founder of Hay House, an international mind-body-spirit publisher in Carlsbad, Calif.

Patricia Campbell Carlson is former executive director of A Network for Grateful Living, a Web-based organization that promotes gratitude as a spiritual practice. Carlson lives in Ithaca, N.Y.

Dr. Uma Mysorekar is a former president of the Hindu Temple Society of North America in Flushing, N.Y., and a practicing obstetrician-gynecologist. She has represented Hinduism at interfaith conferences sponsored by the White House. She has written about the Hindu view of gratitude.

Gregg Krech is the author of Naikan: Gratitude, Grace and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection. Naikan is a Japanese method of self-examination that prompts reflection on gratitude to others for what you have been given. Based on Eastern spiritual teachings and Japanese psychology, Naikan is used to promote mental health. Krech is the executive director of the ToDo […]

David Steindl-Rast is a Benedictine brother and a senior member of the Benedictine community at Mount Savior in Elmira, N.Y. He is the author or co-author of five books, including Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness. He is a member of A Network for Grateful Living, which maintains the Web site Gratefulness.org. He […]