Anne Lamott (writer and social activist)
Jill Lepore (author of Book of Ages – the Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin)
Mirabai Starr (author of Wild Mercy and translator of Teresa of Avila)
Teresa of Avila (16th-century Spanish mystic)
John of the Cross (another 16th-century Spanish mystic)
The Inklings (an Oxford literary group led by C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien)
Bishop Kallistos Ware (British bishop and theologian in the Eastern Orthodox Church)
Gary Wills (writes about history, politics, religion)
The Books of the Ages 