Chris Iosso served as a pastor in New York State for more than 12 years, and has worked in the fields of human rights, corporate responsibility and social witness policy for the United Presbyterian Church, USA and now for the PCUSA. A graduate of Princeton (MDiv) and Union (NY; PhD) Seminaries, he has taught part-time in two prisons and has worked on one-year assignments for the United Church of Christ and the National Council of Churches of Christ. He has written primarily for Presbyterian publications, co-edited Prayers for the New Social Awakening and edited Connecting to the Creed, an ecumenical guide for understanding and applying the Social Creed for the 21st Century. He is the father of three 20 somethings.