John Queripel is a Uniting Church minister who has a concern for speaking and living faith in the modern context, and has ministered in a wide range of contexts: urban and rural congregations, community based ministries, university and correctional centre chaplaincies. He has a strong interest in the arts and literature, being a published author and playwright, a recorded singer-songwriter, and a dabbler in the visual arts. In his spare time he enjoys riding his Malibu surfboard.