Raymond J. Lawrence, Jr.
Publisher/Editor

Raymond J. Lawrence has been the director of pastoral care at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, since 1991. He is a native of Virginia and is an Episcopal minister. He has served in parishes in Virginia and Tennessee, and has directed clinical pastoral training programs at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston; St. Joseph Hospital, Houston; Brooklyn Methodist Hospital; and the Roanoke, Virginia, Mental Health Center. He is the author of The Poisoning of Eros: Sexual Values in Conflict, as well as a number of journal articles, and he publishes the journal Contra Mundum. Lawrence serves as general secretary of the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy, an accrediting organization for clinically trained ministers. As a hobby, Lawrence has become an expert in the identification of mushroom species