About the Pi Zine Editor

Sarah Voss is a Unitarian Universalist minister, author, and lecturer.

She holds a Doctor of Ministry from the Meadville/Lombard Theological School in Chicago and is currently part-time minister at the First Unitarian Church of Sioux City, Iowa. She travels, lectures, and preaches widely, and she presents an original seminar Science and Spirit: a Mathaphorical Tour. A former mathematics professor, she believes mathematics is an ideal language for modern-day mystics.

In her role as pastor, the Rev. Voss has written Voice to Voice, Heart to Heart (The Story of an Interim Ministry); Out of Our Prayers, Hope, and several as yet unpublished works. Her work with mathematics and metaphysics includes her 1995 book What Number Is God? and Zero: Reflections About Nothing, the first of a series of four inspirational books to also include One, Two and Many.

Sarah has also written about the math/science/religion connection in articles published in Parabola ("Sacred Qualities," Parabola: Myth, Tradition, and the Search for Meaning, Fall, 1999 (24:3), 32-37.), Philosophia Mathematica, Insights (The Magazine for the Chicago Center for Religion and Science), "Depolarizing Mathematics and Religion," Philosophia Mathematica, Virginia Beach: Grunwald Publishers, Series II 5(1/2), June, 1990. and the Publisher's Weekly Religion Bookline. Her essay "Going Beyond Copernicus" PDF (Reprinted with permission from The Chrysalis Reader: Rocking the Ages (2000, The Swedenborg Foundation, West Chester, Pennsylvania), pp. 165 to 171.) is included in Rocking the Ages: The Pulse of Continuity and Change, and she wrote "The Religious Trial Newton Never Had" for Faith and Freedom (Oxford, England). For The World, the Journal of the Unitarian Universalist Association, she penned an article titled "Our Electronic Church." "Hope though Holy Mathaphors." will appear late in 2001 in the Pune (India) Journal of Religious Studies.

Sarah describes herself as a mother and exuberant grandmother. Her spouse, Dan Sullivan, is a a biochemist at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.and also the photographer for Zero: Reflections about Nothing. Sarah is currently working on two major projects -- one a book about Alzheimer's (see unpublished works) and the other a multimedia traveling exhibit which will introduce the public to many topics about religion and science.

Sarah recently received the 2001 Dorothy Daniels Honorary Writing Award for Fiction, sponsored by the National League of American Pen Women, Simi Valley Branch. In presenting the $100 prize, contest chairperson Carol Doering said "Your writing was a ray of sunshine that should be shared with others." The winning story, "Hearts in the Window," is part of God Feeds the Sparrows. Download Entire Book. (PDF)

Dr. Voss initiated this upgraded version of PiZine in 2001. PiZine is a virtual vehicle for the dissemination and sharing of information about math-based theology.