Doreen M McFarlane writes out of a vast and varied life experience! She began as an opera and concert singer with a career that took her throughout the world and almost every state of the U.S.A. She entered seminary and earned both a Master of Divinity (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago) and Ph.D. in Bible (Chicago Theological Seminary). She served full time as an ordained pastor for the United Church of Christ in three states (Illinois, Florida, and Connecticut)for fifteen years while also teaching both college and seminary courses (in the classroom and online) to a widely diverse student body! She has recently returned from four years in China, where she was professor of Hebrew and Greek at Nanjing Union Theological Seminary and then professor teaching American Religion and Culture at Shanghai University. She is currently working as a writer, editor, and photographer - and, of course, is still singing!