Rita Nakashima Brock is author of the award-winning Journeys by Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power and coauthor of the critically-acclaimed Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us. A former director of the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, she is director of Faith Voices for the Common Good, senior editor of religion at The New Press and a licensed minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).