On February 13, 2010, the second annual Search for Meaning: Pacific Northwest Spirituality Book Festival will bring together the best regional authors and works on issues of spirituality, faith, church-state matters, and theology. Last year, 38 authors hosted interactive sessions on diverse topics. Stay tuned for information on who will join us in 2010. Two keynote presentations will take the main stage. For more information about Search For Meaning, click here.

Kathleen Norris is the award-winning poet, writer, and author of The New York Times’ bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, and The Virgin of Bennington. Her new book, entitled Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, was published in September 2008.

Gustav Niebuhr is associate professor of religion and the media at Syracuse University, having previously been a newspaper reporter at The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Viking Press published his book, Beyond Tolerance: Searching for Interfaith Understanding in America, in 2008.