Sallie McFague is Distinguished Theologian in Residence at the Vancouver School of Theology. For thirty years she taught at Vanderbilt Divinity School and retired in spring 2000, Her interests lie in the area of religious language and ecology, and she has published several books on this topic: Models of God, The Body of God, Super, Natural Christians, and the most recent one, Life Abundant: Rethinking Theology and Economics for a Planet in Peril.