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Important News About HD Magazine

After careful consideration and evaluation, we realized it is no longer viable to produce the Human Development Magazine. The final HD Magazine, Volume 43 – issue 4, will be mailed and available online this fall.

As we are ceasing publication of the HD Magazine, we are no longer taking new subscriptions or renewals.

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FEATURED AUTHORS

Jeff Jay

Father John Esper

Dr. Patricia Cooney-Hathaway

Susan Muto

Constance Inkmann Taylor

Deborah Tourville

Msgr. John Zenz

EDITORIAL TEAM

Msgr. John Zenz

Executive Editor

Jeff Henrich

CEO, Guest House, Inc.

Patricia
Cooney-Hathaway

Associate Editor

Fred Cavaiani

Associate Editor

Jeff Jay

Associate Editor

Richard Hittle, SJ

Associate Editor

Si Hendry, SJ

Associate Editor

Mary Lou Cochran

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Jeff Jay

Jeff Jay is a certified addiction counselor and intervention professional, with a national private practice, based in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. His latest book is “Navigating Grace: a solo voyage of survival and redemption,” (Hazelden, 2015) from which parts of this article have been derived. He has served as a trustee for several professional and treatment organizations, and is currently a member of the board of advisors of Jefferson House, a Capuchin treatment program for indigent men, in Detroit.

Father John Esper

Father John Esper is a priest of the Archdiocese of Detroit since 1983. Father Esper has served as the Spiritual Director at Sacred Heart Major Seminary and Liaison to the Charismatic Renewal. Currently serving as an active pastor in a local suburban parish, he continues an active ministry of inner healing, retreat leader, and spiritual director.

Dr. Patricia Cooney-Hathaway

Patricia Cooney-Hathaway, Ph.D., is Professor of Spiritual and Systematic Theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary. Dr. Cooney-Hathaway has been involved in the ministry of spiritual direction for over twenty years. She has done extensive lecturing nationwide in the areas of theology, spirituality and the relationship between human and spiritual development.

Dr. Cooney-Hathaway authored the book, Weaving Faith and Experience: A Woman’s Perspective as part of a Call to Holiness Series on Catholic Women’s Spirituality, published by St. Anthony Messenger Press.


In addition, she co-authored a successful Lilly Foundation grant of $1.5 million for the education and formation of ecclesial lay ministers. She has been the Project Director for the implementation of this grant. She has also received the Pope John Paul II Memorial, The Splendor of Truth Award, by the Catholic Lawyers Guild, Diocese of Lansing, Michigan.

Susan Muto

 

Susan Muto, Ph.D., is executive director of the Epiphany Association and Dean of the Epiphany Academy of Formative Spirituality. She holds a doctorate in English literature from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Muto has been teaching the literature of ancient, medieval, and modern spirituality for over forty years. She has written more than thirty books, and in 2014 she received the Aggiornamento Award presented by the Catholic Library Association in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the ministry of renewal modeled by Pope St. John XXIII. Her book, “A Feast for Hungry Souls: Spiritual Lessons from the Church’s Greatest Masters and Mystics”(Notre Dame, IN: Ave  Maria Press, 2020) won the 2021 first-place award in Spirituality from the Catholic Media Association. For more information on her life and ministry go to www.epiphanyassociation.org.

Constance Inkmann Taylor

Constance Inkmann Taylor has a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, California. Currently she is in private practice in Rancho Santa Margarita, California. Earlier in her career she had extensive experience in Speech/ Language Pathology.

Deborah Tourville

Deborah Tourville currently works as the Business Manager/Pastoral Minister at St. Vincent Ferrer located in Madison Heights, Michigan. She holds a BS in psychology and is currently completing her Master’s Degree. With over 20 years of experience in pastoral ministry, she works as a Spiritual Director and Inner Healing Retreat facilitator. Through Deborah’s work she has gained a strong interest in social justice issues and the wellbeing of all. She is the mother of four and grandmother of eight who enjoys golf and reading in her spare time.

Msgr. John Zenz

Ordained July 1, 1978 for the Archdiocese of Detroit, Msgr. John Zenz received a Doctorate in Spirituality from the Gregorian University in Rome in 1984. He served in various capacities in the Archdiocese including Moderator of the Curia, Vicar General and Episcopal Vicar for one of the four Regions of the Archdiocese. Since 2008 he has been pastor of Holy Name Parish, Birmingham. He became Executive Editor of Human Development Magazine in May 2015.