Voice from the Desert is Gaillot's visionary letter to his new flock, the church in Partenia. It is, in effect, a pastoral letter to all Catholics. In vibrant, clear, and poetic prose, Bishop Gaillot expresses his dreams for a Catholic Church that exists to serve the people of God.

Rebecca Moore is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. She has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Marquette University. Dr. Moore has written and published on medieval Christian theologians and their debt to Jewish biblical commentary. She co-authored the book A Portable God: The Origin of Judaism and Christianity (Rowman and Littlefield 2007) with SDSU colleague Risa Levitt Kohn. This work examines how first-century Jewish groups interpreted Israelite religion in a new historical context. Her analysis of the role women have played in the development of Christianity, Women in Christian Traditions (New York University Press 2015), is a popular textbook. She is past president of the Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages and of the American Academy of Religion (AAR)¿Western Region, and has served on national program steering committees for the AAR and the Society for Biblical Literature.