John R. Mabry, PhD, is Pastor at Grace North Church (Congregational) in Berkeley, California. He teaches homiletics, theology, and spiritual direction at the Chaplaincy Institute for Arts and Interfaith Ministry (Berkeley) and serves as Assistant Director of the Master's Degree in Spiritual Guidance at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California. He is the author of numerous books on spirituality and spiritual guidance, including Noticing the Divine: An Introduction to Interfaith Spiritual Guidance (2007).