The summer 2007 issue of Greater Good magazine, published by the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley, surveys new research on gratitude.

The Rev. Susan Gregg-Schroeder is a United Methodist minister in San Diego and coordinator of Mental Health Ministries, an effort that grew from her own experience of depression. She is the author of a paper, “Mental Illness and Families of Faith: How Churches Can Respond.”

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is professor of women’s studies and English at Emory University. One of her areas of expertise is disability studies. She wrote Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature.

Roger Gottlieb is a philosophy professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass. Disability is among his wide area of interests; he has served on the steering committee of the American Academy of Religion’s Religion and Disabilities Study Group, and his book Joining Hands: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change includes a section about one […]

Kathleen D. Bolduc has a son with autism and has written several books stemming from their experiences. They include His Name Is Joel: Searching for God in a Son’s Disability and A Place Called Acceptance: Ministry With Families of Children With Disabilities. She lives in Cincinnati.

William Stillman wrote Autism and The God Connection: Redefining the Autistic Experience Through Extraordinary Accounts of Spiritual Giftedness. The Pennsylvania resident writes extensively on the subject, serves on several boards and has Asperger’s Syndrome, a mild form of autism.

Thomas E. Reynolds is an associate professor of theology at Emmanuel College in Toronto, Canada. He has a son with multiple disabilities and is the author of Vulnerable Communion: A Theology of Disability and Hospitality.

Marilyn A. Martone is a retired associate professor of theology and religious studies at St. John’s University in New York, where her research and teaching focused on the distribution of health resources and issues of rehabilitation of brain-trauma victims. After Martone’s adult daughter suffered a serious brain injury in a car accident, Martone wrote a book, Over the […]

Zen Buddhist teacher Joseph Bobrow founded the Coming Home Project in San Francisco to help veterans returning from combat.