The Way

The Editor of The Way is Paul Nicholson SJ. Born in London in 1956, Paul was educated by the Jesuits at Wimbledon College. He read zoology at Durham University before entering the Jesuit novitiate in 1978. He studied philosophy and theology at the Milltown Institute, Dublin and at Heythrop College, University of London. Between these two periods of study he worked for two years in the Craighead Jesuit Spirituality Centre outside Glasgow. Immediately after ordination in 1988 Paul did a master’s degree at Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and then lived in the Jesuit parish of the Sacred Heart, Blackpool, working for the Lancaster Diocese Faith and Justice Commission. His tertianship was done in the Ateneo in Manila, after which he returned to Britain to help establish a social ministry community in Sunderland, together with the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul and the St Joseph of Peace sisters. Six years later, in 1999 he was appointed Director of the Loyola Hall Spirituality Centre on Merseyside, and then in 2006 became Director of Novices for the inter-provincial novitiate in Birmingham, which serves the Jesuit provinces of Britain, Ireland, Flanders, and the Netherlands, as well as the region of South Africa. Paul is currently Assistant for Spirituality to the British Jesuit Provincial. He has run training courses in spirituality and retreats throughout the British Isles, as well as in South Africa and Guyana. For some time he edited Jesuits and Friends, the Province newsletter for benefactors. He has a particular interest in the ways in which Ignatian spirituality can prompt and support long-term social engagement. He was appointed Editor of The Way in July 2008.

The Assistant Editor is Elizabeth Lock, who read English at Oxford and has done research on twentieth-century literature and literary theory. As well as working for The Way, she is a freelancer for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and a copy-editor and proof-reader for various publishers.

The Deputy Editor is Roger Dawson SJ, who is the Roman Catholic assistant chaplain to the University of Oxford. Joseph Munitiz SJ and Philip Endean SJ are the Editorial Consultants. Joe is a Byzantine scholar and writer, and Philip (a former editor of The Way) is a tutor in theology at Campion Hall in the University of Oxford.

The publication of The Way is supported in various ways by other Editorial Staff

Peter Brook SJ, who helps with technical matters and graphic design

Julian Lock, a copy-editor and independent history scholar living in Oxford

Ruby Murphy, a retired local government official who helps with office tasks

The Editorial Advisors meet twice a year to offer Paul support and advice.

Nicholas Austin SJ, until recently teaching in Guyana and now studying theology in London

Michael Barnes SJ, a former Editor, who now teaches theology of religions at Heythrop, and leads an inter-faith project in Southall, on the western side of London

Brendan Comerford SJ, an Irish Jesuit, on the staff of Manresa House, Dublin

Austin Ivereigh, a scholar of Latin American history, formerly Deputy Editor of The Tablet

Nicholas King SJ, on the staff of Campion Hall, and a scholar of the New Testament

Robert Marsh SJ, on the staff of Loyola Hall Jesuit Spirituality Centre near Liverpool

Andrew Walker, an Anglican priest who is Director of the London Centre for Spirituality

Josette Zammit-Mangion IBVM, a biblical scholar and spiritual director

The Editorial Correspondents write in on a regular basis with support and feedback, largely from outside the UK.

Joe Arun SJ is an anthropologist from India, now at Loyola College, Chennai, India

Bernhard Bürgler SJ is an Austrian theologian and psychotherapist who is about to become director of a centre for contemplative retreats in Germany

Pascual Cebollada SJ is executive editor of Manresa, the noted Spanish Jesuit journal of Ignatian spirituality and teaches at Comillas University in Madrid

Alfredo Sampaio Costa SJ, a Brazilian Jesuit, teaches at the Gregorian University in Rome

James Corkery SJ teaches theology at the Milltown Institute in Dublin

Robert J. Egan SJ teach es theology and spirituality at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington

Bernadette Flanagan PBVM is Director of the School of Spirituality at the Milltown Institute in Dublin

Andrew Hamilton SJ is publisher at Jesuit Publications in Australia and teaches at the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne

Mary Ann Hinsdale IHM teaches theology at Boston College

Ellen M. Leonard CSJ is a specialist in the writings of George Tyrrell and is a professor emerita at the University of St Michael's College, Toronto.

Bruce Lescher is Director of Sabbatical Programs at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley

David Lonsdale, is a former Editor, teaches spirituality at Heythrop

Mark A. McIntosh, is an Episcopal priest and theologian at Loyola University Chicago

Annemarie Paulin-Campbell, is Director of the Vuselela Ignatian Spirituality Centre in Johannesburg.

Janet K. Ruffing RSM teaches spirituality at Fordham University, New York

Dominique Salin SJ teaches spirituality at the Centre Sèvres, the Jesuit faculty in Paris

Philip Sheldrake, a former Editor, is now William Leech Professor of Applied Theology at the University of Durham

Claire E. Wolfteich teaches practical theology and spiritual formation at Boston University

Wendy M. Wright, a specialist in Salesian studies, teaches spirituality at Creighton University, Omaha, where she holds the John C. Kenefick Faculty Chair in the Humanities.

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