Dr. George Wolfe, the author of "Meditations on Mystery: Science, Paradox and Contemplative Spirituality", is Professor Emeritus and former director of the Ball State University Center for Peace and Conflict Studies where he served as Director of Peace Studies from 2002 to 2006. He is a certified mediator and was trained to conduct interfaith dialogue at All-Faiths Seminary International in New York City where he was ordained an interfaith minister. In 1991, he was awarded an open fellowship from the Eli Lilly Endowment which made possible his first trip to India.
Dr. Wolfe has been a featured speaker in the Hall of Philosophy at Chautauqua Institution and has served as a panelist at the annual International Conference on World Affairs in Boulder, Colorado. He has also served as a visiting scholar at Limburg Catholic University in Hasselt, Belgium. In the spring of 2007, he presented peace education workshops in the island nation of Saint Lucia by invitation of the Ministry of Education.
Wolfe is the author of The Spiritual Power of Nonviolence: Interfaith Understanding for a Future Without War which has been endorsed by Arun Gandhi, Bishop William E. Swing, and peace educator Michael N. Nagler. Conservative political commentator David Horowitz has listed Professor Wolfe as "one of the 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America.”
Dr. Wolfe is also a classical saxophonist who held the rank of Professor of Music Performance at Ball State University. He has appeared as a soloist with such ensembles as the Royal Band of the Belgian Air Force, Chautauqua Motet Choir, the U.S. Navy Band Brass Quintet, the Indianapolis Children’s Choir and the Saskatoon Symphony. He has also given recitals and master classes throughout the United States, as well as at major conservatories and universities in Europe, Central America, and the Far East.