Stephen S. Pearce, D.D., Ph.D., is senior rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco. For twenty years he was a faculty member in the Human Relations Department of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, and he also taught at the University of San Francisco, the University of Connecticut, and St. John's University, where he earned his doctorate in counselor psychology. He is the past president of the Northern California Board of Rabbis and board member of the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, and the Graduate Theological Union. He is the former editor of the Journal of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and was a regular contributor of "Torah Thoughts" columns that are available at Jewishsf.com. He is author of Flash of Insight: Metaphor and Narrative in Therapy, and coauthor with Bishop William E. Swing, The Episcopal Bishop of California and Father John P. Schlegel, past president of the University of San Francisco, of Building Wisdomıs House: A Book of Values for our Time.