Douglas E. Christie is Professor Emeritus in the Theological Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is the author of The Word in The Desert: Scripture and the Quest for Holiness in Early Christian Monasticism (Oxford, 1993); The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Note for a Contemplative Ecology (Oxford, 2013); The Insurmountable Darkness of Love: Mysticism, Loss and the Common Life (Oxford, 2022); and is the founding editor of Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality (Johns Hopkins). He has been awarded fellowships from the Luce Foundation, the Lilly Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. From 2013-2015, he served as Co-director of the Casa de la Mateada study abroad program in Córdoba, Argentina, a program rooted in the Jesuit vision of education for solidarity. He lives with his family in Los Angeles and is currently working on a book on the landscape of prayer.