Advisory Board
Claire H. Altman, MPA, JD
Former President and CEO of Volunteers of America of Greater New York More
Herbert Benson, MD
Founder and President Emeritus, Mind/Body Institute; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School More
Sidney Callahan, Ph.D.
Paul J. McKeever Chair Emeritus in Moral Theology, St. John’s University, NY More
Victor Chan
Co-Founder, with the Dalai Lama, of the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education, Vancouver More
Rev. Fr. Cornelius Dery, S.T.L, MA
Lecturer—Moral Theology and Bioethics—and Formator, St. Peter’s Regional Seminary, Cape Coast, Ghana More
Robert Michael Franklin Jr., Ph.D., M.Div.
American author, theologian, ordained minister, and academic administrator who served as the tenth president of Morehouse College from 2007 to 2012 More
Gregory L. Fricchione, MD
Director of the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital More
Francisco Cardoso Gomes de Matos, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of the Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, and world leader in the field of Peace Linguistics and Human Rights; Co-founder of ABA Global Education; Co-founder of the World Dignity University initiative More
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Ph.D.
George D. and Harriet W. Endowed Chair of Religion, Founding Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Rollins College, and Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Love in the World Religions More
Dr. Ralph Hood Jr.
Editor Emeritus of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Recipient of the William James Award from the American Psychological Association More
Ursula King STL (Paris), MA (Delhi) Ph.D. (London), FRSA
Professor Emerita of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol, UK More
Harold G. Koenig, MD
Founder and Director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University More
Samuel Oliner, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology, Project Director, Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute, Humboldt State University More
Doug Oman, Ph.D.
President-elect of the Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (Division 36 of the American Psychological Association), and Adjunct Professor, University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health More
Elizabeth Ford Pitorak MSN, CNS, FPCN
Founder of Hospice of the Western Reserve; Executive Director and Founder of Pathways for Pets More
Margaret M. Poloma, Ph.D.
Sociologist of Spiritual Experience, and Co-Author of The Varieties of Prayer (with George H. Gallop, Jr.) and of The Heart of Religion More
Pamela Thompson
Pamela Thompson lives with her husband, Fairman, in Rose Valley, PA, an arts and crafts community near Swarthmore College. In 1997 she and Fairman moved from Louisville, Kentucky, back home to Philadelphia when she was hired as Director of Communications for the John Templeton Foundation. More
Lynn Underwood, Ph.D.
President, Research Integration; Honorary Fellow, University of Liverpool, UK More
Judith B. Watson
Judith B. Watson holds Masters’ Degrees from Case Western Reserve University in both Social Service Administration and in Bioethics. More
