Philip L. Culbertson

The Rev. Dr. Philip Culbertson spent 15 years as a Lecturer in Practical Theology in the School of Theology of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. In 2004, he was awarded the Sustained Excellence in Teaching Prize by that same university. He has also been a psychotherapist in private practice, and taught psychotherapy at two training institutes in Auckland. A native of the US and an ordained Episcopal priest, he has also lived and worked in Israel and Switzerland. He is the author of over 100 articles in academic journals. His fourteenth book, Pacific Identities and Wellbeing: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, co-edited with Margaret Agee, Tracey McIntosh, and Cabrini Makasiale, will be published by Routledge in late 2012. In 2007, he semi-retired and moved to Palm Springs, California, from where he teaches Philosophy part-time at College of the Desert, Palm Desert, California; remains a guest lecturer in both Theology and Counseling Psychology at the University of Auckland; continues to write books and academic articles (and is working on his memoirs for his grandchildren); and spends much of his day working as a free-lance copyeditor for people who have something they are burning to say.