James Alison (b. 1959) is a Catholic theologian, priest and author. He has studied, lived and worked in Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and the United States as well as his native England. He earned his doctorate in theology from the Jesuit Faculty in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He is the author of Knowing Jesus (London: SPCK 1992); Living in the End Times (SPCK 1998); The Joy of Being Wrong (Crossroad, 1998); Faith beyond resentment: fragments catholic and gay (DLT, 2001); and most recently On being liked (DLT, 2003). Having lived with the Dominican Order between 1981 and 1995, James currently works as an itinerant preacher, lecturer and retreat giver, accompanying a wide variety of publics, through academic lectures, undergraduate, postgraduate and professors\' seminars, adult catechesis courses, retreats for priests, parish groups, and Catholic and ecumenical gay and lesbian retreats. Engagements in 2005 took him the US, Mexico, Colombia, Ireland, Germany and Spain as well as a three-month reading sabbatical in London. Engagements in 2006 look to be similarly widespread A systematic theologian by training, his current theological interests include the development of an adult catechesis programme following on from the non-violent understanding of desire associated with René Girard as well the elaboration of some insights into the relationship between Creation and Salvation which have emerged in his work both pastoral and academic. He lives in London.