Ewan MacFarlane, PhD, is a Catholic speaker and writer who lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife and their four sons. He holds tertiary qualifications in Life Sciences, Public Health, and Theology and works as a teaching and research academic in public health and applied epidemiology at an Australian university. He speaks and writes on men's spirituality and spiritual direction, and on the place of ordinary life and the lay vocation in spiritual growth and healing. His fiction tells stories of redemption through grace operating in ordinary life, with a distinctly Catholic undertow.