Lance CardenLance Carden holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Oregon and was a longtime writer and editor at The Christian Science Monitor. He is the author of Witness: An Oral History of Black Politics in Boston (1989); two poety books, Tuscan Retreat (2013) and City of Lions (2015), and the two-act play Democracy & its Demise (2018). He's also a trustee of the Endowment for Biblical Research, Boston. Read More Read Less