About the author

Bill Hambleton is the author of The Sacred and Profane: A Memoir of Faith and Reckoning. He grew up in Utah and spent nearly a decade as a seminarian for the Diocese of Salt Lake City, studying at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Ohio and later at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. After discerning a different vocation, he earned a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of San Francisco, where he was recognized as a Graduate Merit Scholar and where his dissertation explored the formation of Catholic identity.

Over a thirty-year career in Catholic education, Hambleton has served as President and Head of School at several Catholic independent schools and as a Visiting Scholar in Residence at Loyola University Maryland. His work has taken him from the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City to the East Village of New York City, from the North Shore of Chicago to the hills above Los Angeles, leading schools shaped by the De La Salle, Dominican, and Holy Child traditions. He has recently returned to his first love of teaching theology and serves as Chair of the Religious Studies Department at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy in La Cañada Flintridge, California. He is the recipient of the 2011 Secondary Education Award from the National Catholic Educational Association and the 2013 LaSallian Medal from La Salle Academy in New York City.

His writing is shaped by the contemplative tradition that first drew him, as a teenager, to a Trappist monastery in the mountains above his childhood home in Ogden, Utah, and by years of Ignatian spiritual direction and Dominican truth-seeking. The Sacred and Profane grows out of that formation — an exploration of faith, memory, institutional life, and the complexities of belonging within the Catholic Church.

He lives in Southern California with his wife and daughter.