Gracia Fay EllwoodGracia Fay Ellwood has taught English at Evansville University and Religious Studies at California State University, Long Beach. She is the author of The Uttermost Deep: The Challenge of Near-Death Experiences (2001) and editor of the online jurnal The Peaceable Table, in which the original versions of these essays appeared. She is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Read More Read Less