George Reed, O.S.L. has served as a pastor in The United Methodist Church for over thirty years and is now serving as an interim pastor in The United Church of Christ. He holds degrees from Wright State University and United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH. He has studied at the Institute of Formative Spirituality at Duquesne University and completed extensive training with The Lombard Mennonite Peace Center and with John Savage of LEAD Consultants. He is a contributor to The Immediate Word, which is part of the online pastoral resource SermonSuite as well as the Sermons on the Gospel Readings series. Reed and his wife have three grown children and a cat.