Authors

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Foreword by Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was an Indian Catholic nun of Albanian origin who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying,
Sister Frances Teresa OSC

is a member of the Community of Poor Clares at Arundel, West Sussex. 

  

John B Thomson

is the Director of Ministry in the Diocese of Sheffield and the author of The Ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas: A Christian Theology of Liberation (Ashgate).

Brian Thorne

is Emeritus Professor of Counselling at the University of East Anglia Norwich, where he directs the Centre for Counselling Studies.  

Bonnie Thurston

The Rev. Bonnie Thurston earned her Ph.D. in English and Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and did Post-doctoral work in New Testament Studies at Harvard Divinity School.  In 200

Angela Tilby

is the author of Soul: God, Self and New Cosmology, amongst several other books. She is an Anglican priest, and Vice Principal of Westcott College, Cambridge; previously she was a senior p

Andrew Todd

is Vice-Principal of the East Anglican Ministerial Training Course.

JRR Tolkein

JRR Tolkein was an English writer, poet and philologist. He was professor of Anglo Saxon and later English Language and Literature at Oxford University during the 1940s and 1950s.

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LEO TOLSTOY

Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoi was born in Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate in the Tula region of Russia, in 1828. He was the author of what many regard as the greatest novel ever wr