2012 SOT/Sem graduate Rachel Wheeler has recently published two books. Her first, Ecospirituality: An Introduction, introduces the environmentally oriented spirituality of the Christian tradition. She most recently published Desert Daughters, Desert Sons: Rethinking the Christian Desert Tradition, for which she received a 2021 Catholic Media Association Award honorable mention in spirituality. Desert Daughters, Desert Sons argues that a new reading of the texts of the Christian desert tradition is needed to present the women who inhabit the texts. Rachel currently serves as a professor of spirituality at the University of Portland.
