The Author

Jeffrey Mark Golliher, Ph.D., a cultural anthropologist and priest in the Episcopal Church, has traveled widely to understand the spiritual dimension of the environmental crisis. For more than ten years, he was Canon for Environmental Justice and Community Development at the Cathedral for Saint John the Divine in Manhattan. Today, he is a parish priest and spiritual director, working with people who want to live more spiritually aware, healthy, and sustainable lives. As the environmental representative for the worldwide Anglican Communion at the United Nations, he has organized global conferences on spirituality, ecology, and community development; he has written and edited numerous books and articles on these subjects for the Anglican church and the United Nations. Born and raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, Golliher now lives with his wife, Asha, in upstate New York.

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Praise for his book "Moving Through Fear"

"With intimate and affecting prose, Golliher brings home a message that is at once comforting, socially conscious, and resounding in its bold spiritual wisdom."

-- Publishers Weekly

Praise for his book "A Deeper Faith"

"A book of complete sincerity. Not a note out of place, not a false tone or trace of piousness or pretension. When righteousness, hypocrisy, and the preaching of easy comfort keep so many away from the religious pursuit, the beautiful honesty of Golliher's writing opens the way for anyone who longs to find the path again."

-- James Hillman, author of The Soul's Code

"This is a wise and beautifully written book on the richness and depths of the spiritual path. It is an important book for our time, as we face an imperiled world. This book gives us hope for redemption in every step of the way." 

-- The Reverend Joan Halifax, Abbot, Upaya Zen Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico