Ancient Christian Devotional: A Year of Weekly Readings, Lectionary Cycle A
Cindy Crosby is a speaker and author of five books, includingBy Willoway Brook: Exploring the Landscape of Prayer.She is a contributor to the book,Creation Care, and her writing has appeared in numerous publications, includingBooks & Culture, Mars Hill ReviewandPublishers Weekly.Thomas C. Oden (PhD, Yale University), is the general editor of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture and the Ancient Christian Doctrine series as well as the author ofClassic Christianity, a revision of his three-volume systematic theology. He is the director of the Center for Early African Christianity at Eastern University in Pennsylvania and he formerly served as the Henry Anson Buttz Professor of Theology at The Theological School of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.  Oden is active in the Confessing Movement in America, particularly within the United Methodist Church and serves on the board of the Institute on Religion and Democracy. He suggests that Christians need to rely upon the wisdom of the historical Church, particularly the early Church, rather than on modern scholarship and theology and says his mission is "to begin to prepare the postmodern Christian community for its third millennium by returning again to the careful study and respectful following of the central tradition of classical Christianity."