Vern VisickVernon Visick was a campus minister at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of New College-Madison, ""an experiment in prophetic inquiry."" He holds a PhD in Ethics and Society from the University of Chicago, with a special interest in th ethics of the research university. J. Mark Thomas taught sociology, ethics, and leadership at Madison College and was chair of the sociology department. He holds a PhD in Ethics and Society from the University of Chicago and has written widely in the areas of ethics and technology, including the book Ethics and Technoculture. Both editors helped found the Agenda for a Prophetic Faith lecture series of Madison, Wisconsin, one of the longest-running lecture series on religion and politics in the United States. The chapters in this book were originally given as lectures in this series in 1987. Read More Read Less