The Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Ph.D. is a writer, retreat leader, and climate activist, and serves as Priest Associate of Grace Church (Amherst, MA). Her memoir Holy Hunger (Knopf, 1998; Vintage, 2000) portrays her recovery from an eating disorder and the spiritual longing behind addiction. Her second book, Christ’s Passion, Our Passions (Cowley, 2002) explores forgiveness, compassion, and hope in light of Jesus’ last words from the cross. {+ read more}

The Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Ph.D. is a writer, retreat leader, and climate activist, and serves as Priest Associate of Grace Church (Amherst, MA). Her memoir Holy Hunger (Knopf, 1998; Vintage, 2000) portrays her recovery from an eating disorder and the spiritual longing behind addiction. Her second book, Christ’s Passion, Our Passions (Cowley, 2002) explores forgiveness, compassion, and hope in light of Jesus’ last words from the cross. A trained spiritual director (Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation), she served for several years as Chaplain to the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops. Since 1986 she has been leading spiritual retreats and workshops across the country, and for more than ten years she taught courses on prayer and spirituality at Episcopal Divinity School, a seminary in Cambridge, Mass.  An environmental activist for many years, she has been a leader in Religious Witness for the Earth since her arrest in 2001 at the Deptartment of Energy in Washington DC. {- hide details}