Jon M. Sweeney is an award-winning author and independent scholar who has been interviewed by the Dallas Morning News and The Irish Catholic, on radio with NPR and the BBC, and on television for CBS Saturday Morning, as well as NBC’s “Morning Blend” and CBS Sunday Morning. His books on Franciscan spirituality have sold a quarter of a million copies. His most recent one is Experiencing God: 36 Ways according to Saint Francis of Assisi. Jon is also the author of thirty other books on spirituality, mysticism, biography, and memoir, including Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart; Thomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life and Practices; Sit in the Sun: And Other Lessons in the Wisdom of Cats; and The Pope Who Quit, which was optioned by HBO.

Jon works in spiritual book and magazine publishing, and as program director at the popular website, SpiritualityandPractice.com. He speaks at literary and religious conferences, in churches and synagogues, and independent bookstores. He is a Roman Catholic married to a Reconstructionist rabbi; their interfaith marriage has been profiled in national media. They live with their teenage daughter in Middlebury, Vermont.