Diana L. Hayes, professor emerita of systematic theology at Georgetown University, is a popular lecturer and the author of several books, including Trouble Don't Always Last: Soul Prayers (Liturgical Press), Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made (Fortress Press) Forged in the Fiery Furnace and No Crystal Stair (both from Orbis). She lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Charles S. Ndege is an artist from Tanzania, commissioned to paint these Stations on the walls of St. Joseph Mukasa Church in Mwanza.