Ida Susser is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include Wounded Cities (Berg 2003, coedited with Jane Schneider).Beth Pattillo is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) who has served congregations in Missouri and Tennessee. She developed Faith Leader while an associate minister at Woodmont Christian Church in Nashville, and it has guided hundreds of participants to define, design, and implement the ministries to which God has called them.