Scott
Cairns, professor
of English and director of the MU
Creative Writing Program and Center
for Literary Arts, recently published
two books. His prose memoir, Short
Trip to the Edge: A Pilgrimage to
Where Earth Meets Heaven, was
released in February 2007. The work
earned him a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Cairns - whose work often seeks
to articulate faith through poetry
and prose - also recently published
a book of translations and adaptations,
Love's Immensity: Mystics on
the Endless Life, which is
to be released May 31, 2007.
Mary
Jo Neitz, professor
in the MU Department of Sociology,
will serve as president of the Association
for the Sociology of Religion
in 2008. Neitz has studied women
in charismatic Catholic, Neopagan
and contemporary Wiccan faiths.
She is developing a project examining
feminist theology and lay women
in religious groups.
Carl
Esbeck,
a professor with the MU School of
Law and
