Samuel Wells (PhD, University of Durham) is dean of the chapel and research professor of Christian ethics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He is the author of several books, including POWER AND PASSION, IMPROVISATION: The Drama of Christian Ethics, and TRANSFORMING FATE INTO DESTINY: The Theological Ethics of Stanley Hauerwas. He also coedited, with Stanley Hauerwas, THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CHRISTIAN ETHICS.