Advisory Board
Rev. Diane Berke, Ph. D., is the Co-Founder and Spiritual Director of One Spirit Interfaith Learning Alliance and One Spirit Interfaith Seminary. Diane holds master’s degrees in sociology and psychology, and a Ph.D. in therapeutic counseling. A psychotherapist and spiritual counselor in private practice for nearly thirty years, Diane is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the State of New York, a Diplomate of the American Psychotherapy Association, and a workshop and retreat leader on spiritual development throughout the United States and England. She co-founded and served for fourteen years as Senior Minister of the Interfaith Fellowship and co-publisher of Inspiration magazine, and is well-versed in the world’s spiritual traditions, psychology, and A Course in Miracles. Ordained as an Interfaith minister in 1988, Diane has been a pioneer and leading figure in Interfaith ministry education. For ten years she served as a dean and faculty member, and as Curriculum Development Director for The New Seminary, and then served as Director of The New Seminary from 1998 to 2002.
Diane is the author of two books, Love Always Answers and The Gentle Smile, as well as five spiritual reference manuals: Developing and Deepening Your Spiritual Practice: An InterSpiritual Approach, The Interfaith Minister’s Training and Reference Manual, Understanding Ourselves and Others: Basic Psychological Concepts for Ministers, Forgiveness as a Path of Awakening, and All Things Are Lessons: Essential Teachings of A Course in Miracles. Most important of all is the impact Diane has on those who study with her. Her boundless care, clear intelligence, and deep safety create an extraordinarily rich learning environment. Her students and clients, in both classes and private sessions, experience profound acceptance and a deep calling to the truth that facilitates genuine transformation and healing.
Rabbi Malka Drucker has written twenty-two books, including the Southwest PEN award winner White Fire: A Portrait of Women Spiritual Leaders in America, and Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust (both with Gay Block). Her latest children’s book, Portraits of Jewish-American Heroes, was published in 2008 and recently won the New Mexico Book Award.
Rabbi Drucker is the editor of the 2009 publication Women and Judaism. She is also the author of The Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays, Jacob’s Rescue, Frida Kahlo, and other books for young people. Ordained at the Academy for Jewish Religion, Rabbi Drucker is the founding spiritual leader of HaMakom: The Place for Passionate and Progressive Judaism, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her web site is: www.malkadrucker.com.
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