Four ‘seasoned’ practioners will share joys and struggles of their own personal faith-life journeys. They will discuss the opportunities and challenges they have faced in putting into practice the daily habits of faithful, integrated living. We invite your questions as we hear from these unique voices from the journey.
Panel Members
Cathy Phelps
Cathy Phelps is a member of the Faith4Thought planning team. Before becoming a travel agent, she had been:campus staff of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (central PA), teacher (Puerto Rico), elementary school principal (Suriname SA), cook (French Rivera) and a mother (State College). She currently writes a travel column for several PA newspapers and generally enjoys life!
Heather Holleman
Heather Holleman is a wife, mother of two daughters, and a writer. She currently teaches Advanced Writing at Penn State and helps develop course material for the English department. Along with her husband Ashley, she also ministers to graduate students with of Campus Crusade for Christ. In addition to working on novels and creative non-fiction, she maintains a daily blog, "Live with Flair" (http://www.livewithflair.blogspot.com).
Chris Brady
Christian Brady is an associate professor in Jewish Studies and Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, specializing in ancient Hebrew and Jewish literature (Bible, rabbinic literature, Dead Sea Scrolls, and historical Jesus). He is also dean of the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State. He moved to State College in 2006 from New Orleans with his wife and their two children. He is also an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States of America and worships with his family at St. Andrews, State College.
John Roe
John Roe is a professor and head of Penn State's mathematics department. Born in England in 1959, he taught for many years at Oxford University before moving with his wife Liane to State College in 1998. His passions include mathematics, cooking, rock-climbing, and playing the guitar. He and Liane worship at Calvary's Gray's Woods gathering.