Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation

M. Robert Mulholland Jr. (ThD, Harvard Divinity School) is emeritus professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is pastor of Shirley Community Church in Shirley Mills, Maine, and the author of several books, including Shaped by the Word, The Deeper Journey, Revelation and the landmark spiritual formation book Invitation to a Journey.Mullholland has written many papers and several books on spiritual formation. During his extensive academic career, Mulholland served as adjunct professor at the Academy for Spiritual Formation and taught at several seminaries and universities around the world, including Wesley Theological Seminary, Harvard University, McMurry University, Moscow Evangelical Christian Seminary (Moscow, Russia), West Africa Theological Seminary (Lagos, Nigeria) and Baltic Mission Center Theological Seminary (Tallinn, Estonia). An elder in the Kentucky Conference of the United Methodist Church, Mulholland is a frequent speaker at Bible and spiritual renewal conferences. Active in church activities, he has held rural, recreational, inner-city and suburban pastorates. He and his wife, Lynn, have two children.