Author of:

• Why Religion Matters
• Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals
• The World's Religions
• The Purposes of Higher Education
• Forgotten Truth
• Beyond the Post-Modern Mind
• One Nation Under God: The Triumph of the Native American Church
• Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology (with David Griffin)

Author of:

• A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation
• American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future, Bridging Divided Worlds
• Community and Commitment: Religious Plausibility in a Liberal Protestant Church
• Generational Cultures in Congregations
• Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion
• The Post-War Generation and Establishment Religion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
• World Order and Religion

Dr. Obadiah Harris is president of The Philosophical Research Society http://www.prs.org

Dr. Harris received his Ph.D. in Education from the University of Michigan as a Stewart Mott Foundation Fellow. His distinguished work in community education includes service as Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Community Education at New Mexico State University and as Associate Professor and Director of the Regional Center for Community Education at Arizona State University. Dr. Harris's in-depth study and practice of the great Eastern and Western traditions has helped shape and direct his life. Dr. Harris has seamlessly combined these elements-community education and wisdom teachings-in his leadership of PRS. Among his published works are the books The New Consciousness, Self-Knowledge and Social Action, and Unitive Spirituality.

If you wish to contact Dr. Harris directly, you can email him on harris@prs.org

Chuck Smith Jr. started Capo Beach Calvary in Capistrano Beach, California, and has served as its pastor for twenty-five years. His father founded Calvary Chapel, a Southern California church that developed innovative ministries in the 1970s to reach young people in the counterculture. Today, Chuck is doing the same thing for emerging generations of the postmodern age. The father of five children, he and his wife, Barbara, also have two grandchildren, two cats and one dog.

Marc graduated with a degree in trumpet performance and went on to medical school in Loma Linda, CA where he graduated and was accepted to an anasthesiology residency. He ended up turning down the residency to pursue the call of God on his life to pastor a contemporary Adventist church in Thousand Oaks, CA.

Marc is a member of Faith First, a group of four young adults who have hit the Christian music scene running. The group's close harmonies, rich vocals and professionally produced backgrounds provide a refreshing addition to the world of Christian contemporary music.

Marc also helped to co-found Dwell Ministries. Dwell Ministries' vision is to see people encounter the presence of God and then to see them trained and equiped to step into the destiny that God has for their lives.

"My journey to faith has been an extremely long journey. It's been the majority of my life. I grew up thinking that I had to do things to have faith, I had to be the good person. I had to do all the right things. I had to work. It's only been the last few years that I finally understood that there is nothing, absolutely I can do to have faith except to give my life to God. Once I did t that and understood it, my faith has grown by leaps and bounds."