I came to Creighton as a full time faculty member in the fall of 2003. At the present time I am Associate Professor of Theology, Director of our Master of Arts in Ministry (online) program, and associate director of the Christian Spirituality MA program. I was inaugurated the first chair holder of the Barbara Reardon Heaney endowed chair in Pastoral Liturgical Theology in the spring of 2011. 

Michael Sullivan and I have been married for twenty-eight years.  He is a retired secondary educator.  We have three dogs that are rescues and have hosted exchange students from around the world at various times.  I have co-authored a book with my brother, Kevin Burke, S.J., entitled The Ignatian Tradition, published by Liturgical Press in 2009.  I am an active member of Christian Life Community, an international Ignatian lay community of mission, and I work with the Ignatian Colleagues Program, a national formation program for administrators and faculty of Jesuit Universities in Jesuit values.  I also represent Creighton at a consortium of Jesuit universities in the United States that have graduate schools of ministry formation.

Various forms of ministry of the Word have been among the most important work I have been privileged to perform over much of my life as a pastoral minister, administrator, and teacher.  Deepening the understanding of the Scriptures and the Church's liturgy among the baptized has continually been at the heart of my professional work, so engaging in writing these reflections is a rich opportunity to expand that ministry beyond a single parish, diocese or region and to reach women and men throughout the world wide web - a somewhat challenging and heady realization.  I am deeply grateful for the emails that are sent in response to one or another reflection.  They engage my heart in a real relationship with those who read and pray with these reflections.

e-mail: e_burkesullivan@creighton.edu

Catholic Comments podcast for August 2nd: http://cct.creighton.edu/?cat=16