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Marc H. Ellis is University Professor of American and Jewish Studies and Director of the Center for American and Jewish Studies at Baylor University, Texas. He has authored 10 books and three collections of essays, including "O Jerusalem: The Contested Future of the Jewish Covenant," 1999. and the book, "Practicing Exile: The Religious Odyssey of an American Jew" published in 2001. Dr. Ellis has won numerous awards and recognitions. From 1995 to 1998, he was a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions and a visiting scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Respondents to his work included theologians Richard Rubenstein, Rosemary Ruether, Mahmoud Ayoub, Naim Ateek and Dwight Hopkins. In 2001, Dr. Ellis joined the editorial board of the Jewish progressive journal "Tikkun."

'[Ellis provides] a vital contribution to solving one of the few remaining intractable problems of our time.' —Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu

[Ellis provides] a vital contribution to solving one of the few remaining intractable problems of our time.