Debra McDermitt is a scholar, educator, and publisher, serving as Professor and Steward of Sacred Life Academy. She holds a Master’s degree in Religious Studies and has taught world religions, philosophy, and meaning-centered inquiry in academic and interdisciplinary settings. Her work explores how questions of meaning, the sacred, and ultimate concern are encountered across religious, philosophical, and cultural traditions. Through Sacred Life Academy, McDermitt publishes texts and offers structured inquiries that are academically grounded, phenomenological in approach, and non-doctrinal in orientation. Her published works include volumes in the Sacred Life series, interfaith reflective devotionals, and related texts supporting reflective study and personal orientation. She is also authoring The Realm series, examining experiences of transcendence through symbolic and phenomenological lenses, and integrates the study of sacred numerology within a broader framework of religious studies and philosophical inquiry.