PAULA M. COOEY holds the Margaret Weyerhaueser Harmon chair in religion at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

     After receiving her PhD in religion from Harvard University (1981), she taught for eighteen years at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, before moving to Macalester in 1999.

     In addition to numerous articles in scholarly journals, she has published several books, among them,

• Religious Imagination and the Body: A Feminist Perspective(Oxford University Press, 1994) and 
• Family, Freedom, & Faith: Building Community Today (Westminster John Knox Press, 1996). 
• Her most recent book is Willing the Good: Jesus, Dissent, and Desire (Ausburg Fortress Press, 2006).