Michael Giffin (email: spanielbooks@hotmail.com) is an author, editor, and Anglican priest.  He offers three distance-education master’s courses in Literature and Theology, which are accredited through the Sydney College of Divinity.  His books include Arthur’s Dream: The Religious Imagination in the Fiction of Patrick White (1996), A Great Tradition: Introduction to Religion in the English Novel (2000), and Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Society in Georgian England (2002).  His current project is a book about the novels and short stories of Muriel Spark.