James M. Houston is founding principal, former chancellor, and emeritus professor of spiritual theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of some forty books, including: A Vision for the Aging Church: Renewed Ministry to and from Seniors, Joyful Exiles, Believe in the Creator, The Transforming Friendship, In Search of Happiness, The Heart's Desire, The Mentored Life, and A Vision for the Aging Church: Renewing Ministry for and by Seniors. Michael W. Parker Sr., Lieutenant Colonel-US Army Retired, is the founding principal and the executive director of the James Houston Center for Faith and Successful Aging. He has active collaborations with interdisciplinary teams of faculty and directors of late life ministries around the world. He is a professor emeritus of the University of Alabama and has held an appointment as adjunct professor with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics and Palliative Care and currently serves as a research associate with the Duke Center on Spirituality, Health, and Theology. He completed a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship in gerontology at the University of Michigan funded by the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Parker has over ninety highly peer-referenced scientific articles on spirituality, aging, and caregiving. He served as co-PI & co-investigator on the NIA-funded R01 UAB Study of Aging and was a John A. Hartford Foundation Geriatric Social Work Scholar (2001-2003) and mentor and member of the Selection Panel (2011-2013). He is co-author with Dr. Houston on A Vision for the Aging Church.
