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Curtiss Paul DeYoung

Curtiss Paul DeYoung is Professor of Reconciliation Studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. A well-known advocate and activist, he is author of United by Faith(2003) and Beyond Rhetoric: Reconciliation as a Way of Life (2000). His new book Living Faith: How Faith Inspires Social Justice (2007) is a portrait of three of the most important and effective activists of the last 60 years: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Malcolm X, and Aung San Suu Kyi. It also analyzes how these figures, along with others, shared a fiery core experience and common characteristics that empowered their lives and work.