About the authors: quoting from the book's back cover, Nancy Palmer Jones has served as senior minister at the Firt Unitarian Chyrch of San Jose, California, since 2005. She was a founding member of the Unitarian fUniversalist Association's JUUST Change Anti-Oppression Consultancy, and with the late Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley, she co-editewd 'Soul Wkork: Ant6iracist T^heologies in Diaslogue,' Karin Lin is a member of First Parish in Cabridege, Massachusetts, where she has played a number of leadersip roles related to multiculturalism, antiracism, and social justice. She is an engineer in the field of natural language processing." About the book: again, quoting from the back cover of the book, ". . .Nancy Palmer Jones and Karin Lin--a white minister and a lay person of color--share how five diverse congregations encunter frustration and disappoinments, as well as hope and wonder, once they commit to the jouyrney. Mistakles abound. Miracles of tranformation and joy emerge too. . ."