John A. McCoy, a writer, editor, and communications strategist, has taught business communications at the UW Tacoma and news writing at Seattle University. He has served as chief communications officer for World Vision International, public affairs director of the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle, and reporter and editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin. He is the author of A Still and Quiet Conscience: The Archbishop Who Challenged a Pope, a President, and a Church (Orbis Books 2015).