Father Peter A. Heasley Heasley, S.Th.D., is currently pastor of the Parish of Corpus Christi and Notre Dame in New York City and Chaplain to Columbia University. A native of Detroit, he worked as an architect in New York and Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa, before seminary and completed a doctorate in Biblical Theology in 2019 (published as Prophetic Polyphony,(Mohr Siebeck, 2020). In addition to pastoral care in the parish and the university, he teaches Scripture at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, New York. On the side, he writes novels and short stories about hope within dystopian situations, and edited “Lectio Divina with the Spiritual Masters: The Gospel of John with St. Augustine” (TAN Books, 2025).