About the Author

Janet K. Ruffing is a Sister of Mercy and professor of spirituality and spiritual direction in the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education at Fordham University. She has lectured in Australia, Ireland, India, Thailand, Guam, Belgium, France, Canada and throughout the United States on spirituality, spiritual direction, and religious life. She is also the author of Spiritual Direction: Beyond the Beginnings (Paulist Press, 2000).