MizM
MizM is a doctoral student in Ethics and Social Theory at Graduate Theological Union, where she is indulged – or at least tolerated – in her efforts to find rapprochement between environmental and animal ethics. In her previous grad student life she studied comparative cognition, with a focus on the great apes. She also taught college psychology and statistics, and worked as a data analyst to support her grad school habit. She is a “cradle Lutheran” and a political lefty, and started Left At The Altar back in April 2004 – out of frustration at the media’s apparent ignorance of the religious left. She has a wonderful partner, a growing nonhuman family, and probably a touch of attention deficit disorder – so she’s likely to post on just about anything that tickles her fancy or ticks her off.
She often forgets to check this email address for a week or so at a time, but this blog’s address is: leftatthealtar at gmail dot com
abc41
Sometime co-blogger abc41 is still trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. In the process she has worked in (and is now retired from) nonprofit administration in Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington State, New Jersey, and California. Along the way she acquired a master’s degree in theological studies from Vanderbilt Divinity School. She is a mother, life partner, home manager, needleworker, and devoted amateur (in its true meaning as “lover of”) in theology. Her theological deficiencies should not be held against Vanderbilt; they did their best with what they had to work with. She is privileged and humbled to be invited to contribute to LATA from time to time.
