Edge Family Publishing grew out of a desire to share meaningful thoughts and experiences with common themes of faith, physics, and the arts.  

The editor, Dr. Christopher J. Edge, is the son of Dr. Ronald D. Edge and Margaret Skulina Edge. During the late 1940's till the mid-1950's, Ronald Edge attended the University of Cambridge for both undergraduate and graduate level physics.  In so doing, he became part of a legacy of physics that began with historical figures such as Maxwell and Rutherford, and continued in his day with well-known individuals such as Dirac, Crick, and Watson. His memories of experiencing this legacy is captured in his biography Tea at the Cavendish.

A staunch Unitarian, Ron spent many hours driving to physics conferences with his Catholic friend, Dr. Charles P. Poole, with whom he held lengthy debates on topics of religion. Years later in 2015 they published God - Yes or No? which summarized these discussions, soon before Dr. Poole passed away.

Margaret Skulina Edge led an adventurous life in her youth, first during the Nazi occupation of Tsechen, Czechoslovakia where she grew up, and then later, when she escaped the Iron Curtain just as it was forming, to become a lone refugee at age 17.  Thanks to the generosity of the Red Cross and the British government, Margaret attended the University of Nottingham and then emigrated to Canberra, Austrailia to pursue a Ph.D. in sociology.

It was in Canberra that she met and married Ron.  By this time, he was constructing the first experimental nuclear physics lab at the University of Austrailia. Soon after the birth of their first son, Christopher, they emigrated to the United States where Ron taught at the University of South Carolina for most of his career.

Margaret captured many of her memories of World War II in her semi-autobiographical novel To Reach for a Saint that is soon to be published posthumously. In it she describes first hand the symptoms experienced by refugees of war long after they survive the crisis. She also reflects on the morality of decisions surrounding the bombing of Dresden and the development of the atomic bomb.

The editor, Chris, grew up in his father's Unitarian Church. Like his father, he chose to study physics at the University of Virginia for both his undergraduate and graduate education. During high school, he converted to Christianity as a result of reading C.S. Lewis. Later, he converted to Catholicism as a result of discussions with Catholic friends who shared his love for J.R.R. Tolkien, a fellow Catholic who helped to inspire C.S. Lewis in his conversion to Christianity.

Chris met and later married his wife Karen at the University of Virginia in 1983. They moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1986 where Chris began work in his current lab first as part of 3M, then Imation, and then finally Eastman Kodak. He is inventor or co-inventor of 45 patents pertaining to digital color imaging and color science.

The theme of physics has been a significant presence in Chris' life since childhood.  It is for this reason that physics is a key element in the books he has written and edited. Likewise, faith has been a key element, first as a Unitarian where pursuit of individual faith and meaning was encouraged, and then as a Catholic Christian. He profoundly experienced that far from eliminating scientific thought, a personal relationship with God can be a daily source of inspiration for both research and for all aspects of daily life. This theme is laid out in Cosmology and the Cross.

Along with being blessed with four healthy adult children, Chris and Karen also experienced the painful loss of their third child Joseph in 1990 after a ten week battle with a fatal heart defect.  In honor of Joseph's 25th birthday, Chris published Baby Joseph's Heart to remember both the joy and the sorrow of being parent to a dying baby, and to honor his son for the gift of tears he left behind.

Finally, ever since 2002 when the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church became very public, Chris has prayed passionately every day for some form of resolution to the core issues that led to this tragedy.  With the encouragement of old aquaintances, Fr. Boniface Ramsey in particular, he has published a straw-man proposal for restructuring the Church in a manner consistent with our Catholic faith entitled Call to Change: Rebuilding the Church.  A 16 slide presentation in the form of a PDF can be downloaded from the Call to Change section of this website.