Christina Bieber Lake is a professor of English (emerita) at Wheaton College. A Flannery O’Connor scholar, she is author most recently of Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism. She speaks and writes on contemporary American fiction and culture, theological anthropology, and technology. Christina writes weekly essays on spiritual transformation through the power of literature at Art & Soul. An award-winning teacher, she also frequently leads faculty development seminars and retreats.