The Rev. Jean McCurdy Meade, PhD is a retired priest of the Diocese of Louisiana and formerly the rector of Mount Olivet Church in New Orleans. She lives now in her hometown of San Antonio, Texas, as well as Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New Orleans. Her publications include The Last Word A Study of the “Revelation to John” and the Fourteenth-Century Tapestries of the Apocalypse of Angers, France (Wipf & Stock, 2025).