Abigail Rian Evans is Charlotte Newcombe Professor Emerita of Practical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she taught for eighteen years. She has spent over fifty years in ministry as a missionary in Brazil, Presbyterian church pastor in six states, synod executive, Columbia University chaplain, seminary and medical school professor in the United States and abroad, and consultant on health care and bioethics to agencies including the National Institutes of Health, the White House, and the World Council of Churches. She is the author of numerous books, including Is God Still at the Bedside: The Medical, Ethical, and Pastoral Issues of Death and Dying and Healing Liturgies for the Seasons of Life, published by Westminster John Knox Press. She currently serves as Co-Coordinator for Princeton Theological Seminaryâ (TM)s Women in Ministry Program, as senior Scholar in Residence at the Pellegrino Clinical Bioethics Center, and as adjunct professor at Georgetown University Medical School.