Sharon Dalox Parks is the author of The Critical Years: Young Adults and the Search for Meaning, Faith, and Commitment and a co-author of both Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World and Can Ethics Be Taught? For over twenty years, she was at Harvard University where she served in faculty and research positions in the schools of divinity, business, and government. She has also taught at Weston School of Theology in Weston, MA. She is presently an associate director and faculty member of the Whidbey Institute in Clinton, WA, and she is a lecturer and consultant in education and religion, leadership, and ethics for diverse institutions.(Bio dated 1998)