A former senior editor at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Clark Strand has been writing about ecology and spirituality for more than thirty years. The author of Waking Up to the Dark, Waking the Buddha, Meditation Without Gurus, How to Believe in God, and Seeds from a Birch Tree, Strand has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Washington Post/Newsweek "On Faith" blog. He is the co-founder of Way of the Rose, a growing nonsectarian rosary fellowship open to people of any spiritual background, and the co-author, with Perdita Finn, of the forthcoming book The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary.

The Facebook group discussed in the interview is here.