Author of:

• Reinventing Medicine
• Be Careful what you Pray for…you just might get it
• Prayer is Good Medicine
• Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine
• Meaning and Medicine: A Doctors Tales of Breakthrough and Healing
• Rediscovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Search
• Space Time and Medicine

Dr. Dossey is an internationally respected physician, author and lecturer. Dossey graduated with honors from the University of Texas at Austin and earned his MD degree from Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. He then served as a battalion surgeon in Vietnam, where he was decorated for valor.

Author of:

• Anticipation : Waiting on Tiptoes for the Lord
• Will I ever learn? : one woman's life of miracles and ministry

Wayne Teasdale

Ph.D. in theology from Fordham University, teaches at De Paul University, a member of the North American Board for East-West Dialogue, member of Hundred Acres Monastery.

Author of:

• The Mystic Heart : Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions
• Come and Sit : A Week Inside Meditation Centers (10000) (with Marcia Z. Nelson)
• Toward a Christian Vedanta : the encounter of Hinduism and Christianity according to Bede Griffiths
• The Community of Religions : Voices and Images of the Parliament of the World's Religions
• Essays in Mysticism

Mayor Street, 56 years old, was born into rural poverty in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and came up the "hard way," growing up without electricity or indoor plumbing as a child. Understanding that education was the key to his future, Mayor Street graduated from Conshohocken High School and worked his way through Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, where he studied English.

"I think God is always present and that that presence is healing and comforting and loving and warm, maybe sometimes confronting. But generally it's a very supportive, perhaps, parental kind of presence. But often we aren't aware of it. And I think in our praying we become aware of it."

"I think of prayer as my responding to the presence of God. And the presence of God is undeniable. So it's only natural I'm going to respond. Just as if my husband is in the room I am going to respond to his presence in that room."