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Björn Andrén -- see Candace Knapp, below.

Steven Baliko resides in Anchorage, Alaska and works for a graphic design/ public relations company as a writer and project manager. He graduated from Bucknell University with a degree in English. Besides Cross-country skiing this winter, he has been working on his first book of poetry, entitled "Welcome to the Middle" and has co-chaired a citywide Anchorage art concert.

Justin Barnard lives in Tallahassee, Florida where he is a graduate student at Florida State University working towards a Ph.D. in Philosophy. When he is not thinking deep thoughts, he enjoys cooking, canoeing, hiking, reading C.S. Lewis and an occasional mindless sitcom.

Erik Barton is a graduate student in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is trying to understand how viruses cause brain infections. His other interests include the history of the dialogue between science and Christianity, backpacking, and microbrewed beers. He is a member and former president of the Vanderbilt InterVarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship. Erik and his wife, Carrie, live in Nashville with their dog, Guinness.

G. Carol Bomer has worked professionally as a painter since 1976. For the past fifteen years, she and her husband have lived in the mountains of North Carolina. A native of Alberta, Canada, she earned her BA degree in English and History, (Secondary Education) in Iowa and taught for six years. Then she has worked toward her Fine Arts degree in Iowa, Kansas, and North Carolina. Since 1976, she has had over 25 solo shows and her work is in private and corporate collections in the US, Canada, and Europe. She is featured in the January '97 issue of NC State magazine. Her work has become increasingly known for its "new passionate abstract expressions ofÊ spirit, " although she is comfortable in all media, from watercolor and oilÊ to conceptual installations. In her work she attempts to join the tangible world and the spiritual world apprehended through the eyes of faith. She believes that the spiritual world can be painted by both non-objective abstraction and objective realism because Christ, who is both God and man, Spirit and flesh, resolves this seeming dichotomy. The significant, timeless, and transcendent themes ofÊ Scripture are the intrinsic qualities of genuine redemptive art, whether realistic or abstract. Her work is currently included in Artes Sagrados, (Concordia University, Austin, TX), Sacred Arts '97 (Wheaton College), Contemporary Works of Faith '97, (Capital University, Columbus, OH), and Historic Trinity's Ecclesiastical Exhibit, (Detroit, MI).

Jason Boyett graduated in 1997 with a B.A. in English from West Texas A & M University. He is communications specialist at a large church in Amarillo, Texas, by day and a writer the rest of the time. He has just completed his first novel and is currently trying to figure out what to do with it. He also plays the hammered dulcimer.

Barry Brake is a composer/arranger/performer living in San Antonio. Besides writing and arranging film soundtracks, stage shows, albums, and commercials, he teaches Sunday School, hosts a classical music radio show, walks around, and reads an awful lot.

Mike Brannon is guitarist/composer/leader of the Synergy Quartet and free-lance music writer and has done interviews with Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Wynton Marsalis, Mike Brecker etc, written on Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, BB King as well as the text "Contemporary Improvisation for Guitar." Watch for Synergy's new CD, "Bar Codes," coming soon. For more info visit http://Guitarspeak.webjump.com

J. Budziszewski (Boo-jee-shef-skee) is a former atheist, former political radical, former shipyard welder, and former lots of other things including former young and former thin. He earned his Ph.D. at Yale, and since 1981 he's been at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches in the departments of Government and Philosophy. His last book about natural law, Written on the Heart (InterVarsity), won a Christianity Today award in 1998. Two new books, The Revenge of Conscience (Spence) and How to Stay Christian in College (NavPress) are forthcoming in 1999.

Roland Cantu is a member of various art endeavors including Flat Earth Artists, and The McNay Art Gallery (San Antonio). Roland has spent much of his time observing life and it's relationships between God and Man, Man to those around him and Man to nature and art. The big picture always being just a little blurry for some to understand it is good to have a simple writer for this time of complexities. Roland is a student of Russian literature and Irish poetry. And hopes to someday write for a living.

Steve Collins ... played with a band called The Plebeian Monarchs. They shortened their name to the The Plebeians and recorded their last cd at the famed FireStation studio in San Marcos, Texas. (The disc notably features Charlie Sexton on guitar). Steve has a new band/project called DeadMan now, and was gracious enough to interview Mike Crawford at a minute's notice, for the digital pages of Communique.

Brad Cope is a free-lance writer living in Colorado Springs.

Todd Copeland has degrees from Baylor University and The University of Georgia. His poems have appeared in The Journal, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and High Plains Literary Review, and he has poems forthcoming in The Southern Poetry Review and The Chaminade Literary Review.

Mike Crawford lives in Kansas City with his wife Laura and their two children. His band, Builder, is in post-production on their first CD, spring sprang sprung, which is reviewed in this edition's In The Changer. His CD will be available at www.flatearthrecords.com/builder. You can reach Mike at: buildermusic@juno.com

John Paul Davis is a performance poet and writer. He currently lives in Chicago, where he's recently qualified to compete in the 2000 MadBar Poetry Slam finals. He represented Chicago last December at a regional Poetry Slam in Detroit. The audio poems are taken from his self-produced audio chapbook, Eat This Book, which he's now run out of. John is a freelance writer for the Chicago publication NewCity and the underground hip-hop magazine Blu, a reviewer for the ezine FreshPoetry (www.freshpoetry.com), plus he writes a whole lot of poems and stories and stuff, which can be found by hopping over to his personal website, at www.geocities.com/Paris/Musee/7522. He misses Rich Mullins.

Rob Davis is co-founder of San Francisco-based Internet company iAmaze and has worked at Sun Microsystems and Netmosphere moving bits around. He secretly writes fiction and poetry when he can, especially on trains, and he maintains the web and email concerns for the Athens, Georgia, band Vigilantes of Love.

Brian Dudley is an artist from League City, Texas with his wife Peta.

Greg Dyer is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Texas, and will be finishing his degree in Contemporary Literature in May of 2000. He is currently at work polishing off his creative dissertation, tenatively titled _Playing Jonah's Hand: Poems_.

Marla Freeman is a freelance writer living in Marin County, California. Since obtaining her Masters of Journalism from U.C. Berkeley last May, she has written numerous articles for the San Francisco Chronicle and runs a part-time editorial business http://www.mswrite.com. She is also the web site manager for Catalyst, a new inter-church Generation X ministry http://www.jps.net/catalyst4u.

Michael Friedman and his wife Dawn live in San Antonio, Texas where he works on the staff of a psychological assessment/testing company. A poet and computer fanatic, he also has designed and published several magazines, inclusing Synapse and Reality Change.

David Galbreath lives in San Antonio, Texas, where he enjoys photography, rock climbing and is currently editing the law review at St. Mary's University.

Jamison Galt lives in Austin, Texas where he works with the youth at Redeemer Presbyterian Church and takes the occasional class towards finishing up his degree in English at the University of Texas. He spends most of his time reading novels, playing with his cat Dostoevsky ("Dos") and grooming his "chick-repellent" (a.k.a.- a good, old fashioned beard).

Robert K. Garcia is a graduate student at Talbot School of Theology, where he is working towards an MA in philosophy of religion and ethics. During those scant moments not spent between the pages of some dusty tome or behind the glow of his laptop, Robert enjoys playing pool, collecting old books, and sipping good beer.

Greg Garrett is the 1993 winner of the William Faulkner Prize for Fiction and author of thirty published short stories in the US, Canada, and New Zealand. He teaches fiction-writing at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he lives with his wife Tina and sons Jacob and Chandler.

Karelynne Gerber is a student at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, MA. She recently received a Master of Arts in World Missions and Evangelism and is continuing to work on a second Masters degree in New Testament. When she is not in class she enjoys singing, playing guitar, and going running.

Lindsey Godlove is an English major living in Grove City, Pennsylvania and "attending the Presbyterian college there....i study occasionally the works required, but just as much study callendars of mucha and post card books of chagall. i wanna be an artist. wanna be a writer. don't know what will come of that..."

Reg Grant is Lauren's husband and Dad to Rosalyn, Gabe, and Nick. He serves as Professor of Pastoral Ministries at Dallas Theological Seminary where he teaches courses in preaching, drama, voice, and creative writing. He has authored and co-authored several books and articles, and has written, produced and acted for radio, television, theater, and film. Several of his films have won major film festival awards, two have been voted "Top Educational Film in America" by Booklist, two have been nominated for Emmys, and one has won an Emmy. His newest book is a historical novel entitled "STORM: the Life and Times of Martin Luther." He currently hosts the radio programs "Another Story" and "The Nite Brite Kid's Club" and is also the reader for "Page Turner Radio Theater" and "First Edition", radio programs featuring selections from Christian novels as well as non-fiction pieces. His programs air internationally.

Nancy Hanna has written and produced plays in United States and Canada, including "The Psalm of Edie Catz" and "Away the Bear," which won the Regent University Festival. She resides in Chicago where she is busy working with the Christian arts groups IMAGE and CIVA, while continuing her work as a playwright.

J.A. Hanson is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Fordham University. His writing has appeared in First Things, Image, re:generation quarterly, Mars Hill Review, Shoot the Messenger and Gadfly. You can reach him via email at j.a.hanson@juno.com

Nathan Hitchcock is an aspiring pastor studying humanities at Biola University, CA. He is a vocalist/songwriter for two music groups: one acoustic rock and the other progressive death metal. He throws the javelin and drinks milk religiously.

Scott James lives on Bainbridge Island near Seattle, Washington with his wife, Susan, and their Bernese Mountain Dog, Sierra. He firmly believes that dogs will someday take over the world..

Marci Johnson has a Masters degree in Theological Studies from Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL. She is currently the Web Editor for Christianity and the Arts magazine, and she resides in Chicago with her husband DJ and a beagle named Higgins.

W. 'Vertigo' Johnson is a devoted audiophile and geode collector who recently relocated to New Orleans. He likes to cook for himself and his pet iguana, Picasso.

Candace Knapp, BFA Sculpture, Cleveland Institute of Art, MFA Sculpture, U. of Ill., has been working in the field of liturgical art for 24 years. In 1988 she married Björn Andrén, an engineer and systems development manager, and moved to Stockholm. In 1990 they came to Tampa, Florida and started working as a team designing and making custom furniture and original statues for churches. Candace has been making sculptures and public art for about 24 years.

Karen Knott is a free-lance writer and editor residing in Cambridge, UK, with her husband and daughter.

Herman Krieger has been fascinated with photography for a long time. He worked as a photo lab assistant during his teens in Detroit in the 1940s and served as an instructor in the Army Air Corps photo school. Earning a degree in mathematics from UC-Berkeley, he spent 30 years as a computer programmer in Europe. upon retirement, he and his wife moved to Eugene, Oregon, where he promptly enrolled in the university of Oregon earning a bachelor's degree in fine arts.

Jeff Lawrence is working towards a Master of Theology degree at Dallas Theological Seminary. When he's not studying, he can usually be found reading, writing, jogging, teaching Bible Study, or laughing with his wife, Nan, who graduated from D.T.S. with a Masters of Biblical Counseling.

Robert K. Leahey is a software engineer and graduate of the College of Music at the University of North Texas. His latest CD is a solo effort featuring ten of his works in the jazz-influenced-adult-alternative- acoustic-progressive-rock style. On the software front, he will soon be releasing Verse Pack 2.0, a scripture memorization utility for Windows95. He currently resides, with his family, in Denton, Texas where, it has been reported, he can be seen occasionally playing to empty coffee houses.

Brian Litfin is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary and is currently doing doctoral work in patristics at the University of Virginia.

Ira Lippke is a philosophy major at Biola University and an accomplished photographer. The editors appreciate his donation of the Bill Malonnee photographs, taken both in Hollywood, CA and Ft. Worth TX within the same week.

Sean McMains is a father of three, husband of one, reader of many, thinker of much, learner of lots. He currently lives in Denton, Texas where the majority of his time goes to family, Internet consulting, his church, playing with various bands, publishing an Internet news daily, reading, pondering, and recreating.

Mitch McVicker hails from Kansas, where he's just released his first nationally-distributed self-titled CD on Rhythm House Records. His first single, Here & Now is scheduled to release at the same time our fall edition comes out. He's touring the U.S. currently. He wrote My Deliverer, which garnered a Dove Award (GMA) for Song of the Year this past year, though he is possibly best known as the late Rich Mullins' confidant, friend, and co-writer.

Tracie Middleton is recent graduate of Austin College in Sherman, Texas. She is currently living in Vido, Texas and has recently discovered photography. She plans to pursue interests in ceramics and cabinetry.

Rod Miller holds degrees from Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas, the University of Iowa, and was graduated with his Ph.D. from the University of Louisville in 1998. He teaches art history at Hendrix College, a small and beautiful liberal arts school in Conway, Arkansas. His main research interests are in the history of collegiate design. Currently he is at work on a monograph of Jens Fredrick Larson, an early twentieth century American architect, and a guidebook to the West Point campus.

H. Paul Moon is (in order of appearance) a composer, playwright and attorney who lives, works and cries in Washington, D.C., also at http://surf.to/paulmoon... His stage plays have included Reformation, This Is Eden, Jesu Christie and Zen Violence. His most recent incidental music score was for Sophie Treadwell's Machinal at Washington University, where he also earned his Juris Doctor degree. Paul cites as his influences, inter alia, Philip Glass, Bjšrk, Harlan Ellison, Martin Luther and Scorsese, David E. Kelley and Tennessee Williams. They would be a very dysfunctional family.

Christina R. Moore joyfully became the bride of Allen Moore on August 21 of this year. They live and minister in Denton, Texas, but are currently preparing to move overseas next year for their work in training Christian leaders in Asia. Christina writes an email devotional called "crumbs from His table," and can be reached by email at bellsheep@juno.com.

Virginia Stem Owens has written over a dozen books on a wide range of topics from metaphysics to media, including a series of mysteries set in her native Texas. She has lectured on physics, information theory, and their connection to aesthetics at a number of colleges. Her memoir of her grandfatherâs last years won the Texas Institute of Letters prize for best nonfiction book in 1990. For seven years she was Director of the Milton Center, an institute based at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas, dedicated to fostering excellence in writing by Christians. She and her husband live in Huntsville, Texas. She currently serves on the editorial board of Books & Culture.

John Poch is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Texas. He has recent and forthcoming poems in Yale Review, New England Review, The Nation, and Colorado Review.

Kyle Ragsdale makes Indianapolis his home. He received his BFA in painting at Baylor University, and an MFA in painting at Southern Methodist University, and has continued his art training at the Vermont Studio Center. He has appeared in numerous gallery showings, and has been published in The Oxford American.

Adam Richardson is a recent graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary (MABS) and is preparing for a career of training pastors in the former Soviet Union. He enjoys discussing everything from Nietsche to baseball, playing music on any of about five instruments (give or take a few), and is now probably somewhere off the Georgia coast going fishing.

Jonathon Richter was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ended up in art school in Los Angeles at Otis Parsons. During his last year there, as an illustration major, he animated a stop-motion music video for Cash Cow, a song by critically-acclaimed CCM crossover artist Steve Taylor. Out of school, he helped start a CD-ROM company called Sonic Boom, married his wife Verónica in Ecuador. (They have a son, Hans, who is two now.) About a year and a half ago, Tayler asked Richter to work with him in his new company, Squint. Working out of an industrial space in Los Angeles, he's animated music videos for The Insyderz and Chevelle, and launched the company website, Squinterland.

Bill Roberson is a Designer at Fossil Design Studio in Richardson, TX. He stays busy by teaching an Adult Bible Fellowship at Lakepointe Church and playing as many sports as possible. He lives with his wife of almost 2 years in Garland, TX and tries to encourage her to pursue her music ministry career daily. He loves many kinds of music and receives much inspiration from recording artists of all kinds. Peace and prayers Snoopy-icon (Don't Ask).

Dean Roberts is a writer, editor and a human resources analyst, displaced from his native Hawaii, and living on the mainland in Texas of all places, with his wife and two sons.

James Romaine is an art historian who lives in Brooklyn, NY. He is in the Ph.D. program in art history at the City University of New York. He has writing forthcoming in the November-December issues of Christianity and the Arts and Re:Generation Quarterly.

Leland Ryken is Professor of English at Wheaton College, where he has taught since 1968. He has authored and edited over 20 books on a range of topics, including Christianity and the arts, the Bible as literature, work and leisure, and the Puritans.

Kelli Sallman is a third-year student at Dallas Theological Seminary working toward a Masters degree in Theology. When not hanging around the Media Arts department, she writes and directs for her church drama team and resides in Garland, TX with her husband, John.

Luci Shaw is a poet, essayist and teacher. She is author of a number of prose books and seven volumes of poetry, the most recent being Writing the River, and editor of three poetry anthologies. Writer in residence at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada, she lives in Bellingham, Washington. ShawBIZ@aol.com

David Sims is a musician living in Denton, Texas where he studies philosophy at the University of North Texas.

Chris Smith is a PhD student in philosophy of science at Indiana University. Although his academic specialization is philosophy of geometry, he also particularly enjoys thinking and writing about the intersections of faith and science and culture. When academia loosens its grip on his reins, Chris likes to revel in late-night discussions with friends and also in top-notch books and music (of all genres). Sometimes he masquerades as the webmaster of Bonastra -- the WWW Madeleine L'Engle Resource.

Lewis Smith was born in Houston, Texas in 1956, studied with Jan Maters and Lowell Collins at the Texas Academy of Art; and at the Alfred Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts Houston. He is currently living and working in Castroville, Texas.

Matthew Smith is a customer segment manager for USAA in San Antonio, Texas where he is busy with marketing research related topics.... Matt feels blessed with both analytical and creative abilities. He holds a BBA and MBA from the University of Texas at San Antonio... He is currently busy keeping up with his wife, two children, and several church activities... He has an eclectic taste in music, can quote comedic movie lines from the 80s on demand, and is learning to play the harmonica.

John Snogren was born in Michigan, studies fine art at the Pratt Institute, New York, and has exhibited in New York and Washington, D.C., where he now lives. His iconography is found in many collections in the US and abroad.

Mark Soupiset has a Masters degree in International Journalism from Baylor University, Waco, TX. He is currently the Financial Editor of USAA Magazine -- a publication of financial services giant USAA. In addition to writing for USAA, Soupiset is an active freelance writer, serving clients throughout Texas. He resides in San Antonio with his wife, Robin.

Paul Soupiset is the creative director for Toolbox Studios in San Antonio, Texas. His creative bent includes digital collage, painting, poetry, songwriting and maintaining a love for good typography. His photocollage has been seen on the cover of Mars Hill Review. Paul and his wife Amy have a son and two daughters.

Larry Terlizzese holds a Master of Theology degree from Dallas Theological Seminary and is currently a Doctoral student at D.T.S. where he serves as a teaching intern in the Department of Systematic Theology. Larry and his wife, Jane, have two children, Zachary and Taylor.

Terry Vine was born and raised in a small town in Northeast Ohio, Terry currently lives and works in Houston, Texas, where he has been photographing commercially since nineteen eighty-five. While his advertising and corporate work has taken him around the world and won him many prestigious industry awards, his personal work centers on black and white studies of the cities and rural areas of Mexico and Europe. In addition to many solo and group exhibitions, Terryâs work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Denver Art Museum, and the Center for Photography at Woodstock / Samuel Doresky Museum of Art in New Paltz, New York, as well as numerous private collections.