Recovering Benedict: Twelve-Step Living and the Rule of Benedict - Paperback

Crean, John Edward: - The Very Reverend Canon John Crean is Dean Emeritus of the Diocese of Western Michigan. He was born and educated on the East coast, and taught at Yale, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the University of Hawaii, and at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. where he taught and was department chair during his last four academic years of 1998-2002. For many years, John has published and presented scholarly papers on the Rule of Saint Benedict. He also served both as a coeditor of MAGISTRA, A JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY IN HISTORY. He is currently a "reader" (scholar) at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, researching and publishing on ecclesiastical history. An oblate of Saint Boniface Benedictine Abbey in Munich, Germany, John has also been personally involved in twelve-step recovery work since 2003.