Michael Plekon is professor in the department of Sociology/Anthropology and Program in Religion and Culture at Baruch College of the City University of New York. He is a priest in the Orthodox Church in America at St. Gregory Church, Wappingers Falls NY. He has published a trilogy on holiness and holy people in our time,two names as best spiritual books of 2004 and 2012. He has also translated and edited several other volumes. He has published almost a hundred articles, book chapters and essays. A student of Peter L. Berger, he has specialized in contemporary spiritual authors, persons of faith, the 20th century revival of Eastern Orthodox theology among emigre writers in Paris.