Jim Trainor was trained as a professional physicist (Ph. D., University of California) and has served at some of the world's leading research organizations. He is also an ordained Episcopal priest and has served as pastor of churches in New Mexico, Texas and Wisconsin. He is the author of over sixty professional articles in physics, an accomplished speaker and teacher on topics in science and spirituality, and an active counselor for issues in parenting, marriage, death and life passages. Jim lives on a lake in the woods of central Wisconsin with his wife Mary and Golden Retriever Barnabas. They have three grown children.