Christopher Pramuk, PhD, lives with his wife Lauri, a pediatrician, and their family in the Denver area, where he serves as the University Chair of Ignatian Thought and Imagination and Professor of Theology at Regis University. He and Lauri met at Regis almost 35 years ago, where both, they say, were first “ruined by the Jesuits”; she is a pediatrician, and together they have four children. Chris recently completed a two-year term as President of the International Thomas Merton Society.

Chris is the author of seven books, including Hope Sings, So Beautiful: Graced Encounters Across the Color Line (2013), a sustained meditation on race relations in society and church, and two award-winning studies of Thomas Merton: At Play in Creation: Merton’s Awakening to the Feminine Divine (2015), and Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton (2009), recipient of the International Thomas Merton Society’s “Thomas Merton Award,” its highest honor. His writings have appeared in America magazine, Theological Studies, Cross Currents, and the prayer journal Give Us This Day. His book, The Artist Alive: Explorations in Music, Art, and Theology (2019) is the fruit of many years of using music, poetry, and the arts in the theology classroom. Chris’s latest book, All My Eyes See: The Artistic Vocation of Fr. William Hart McNichols, is a collaboration and intimate conversation with artist and world-renowned iconographer, Fr. Bill McNichols.

A lifelong musician and student of African American history and spirituality, in 2017 Chris spoke before the national assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in Orlando on racial justice, resurrection faith, and the legacy of the slave songs and spirituals. He lectures widely around the country and has led retreats on topics such as racial justice, Ignatian spirituality, and the retrieval of Wisdom-Sophia into Western Christian spirituality through the writings of Thomas Merton.

Learn more about Chris’s work at: allmyeyessee.org