Rebecca Evans is an author and illustrator who has worked on over two dozen children's books, including All Will Be Well. She also enjoys teaching art at her local Art Center, publishing artwork with magazines and multiple publishing houses, and sharing her love of literature and art with children. Rebecca lives in Maryland and enjoys spending time with her husband and their children, and working from her home studio.

Ruth Everhart is an author, speaker, and pastor who has served Presbyterian (PCUSA) churches for more than twenty years. A graduate of Calvin College and United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, Ruth travels widely to speak at churches, conferences and retreats. She has written for publications such as Christian Century, Sojourners, and the Washington Post, and is the author of Chasing the Divine in the Holy Land and the Christianity Today award-winning memoir Ruined. She lives near Washington, DC.

Gem Fadling, CLC, is a founding partner of Unhurried Living, Inc., a non-profit that trains people to rest deeper, live fuller, and lead better. She is a certified life coach and a trained spiritual director who coaches women at the intersection of spiritual leadership and soul care. Gem is the host of the I Can Do That! Podcast and the coauthor of What Does Your Soul Love?: Eight Questions That Reveal God's Work in You.

Cathleen Falsani is an award-winning religion journalist and author, specializing in the intersection of faith and culture. Her books include the critically acclaimed The God Factor, Sin Boldly, The Dude Abides, BELIEBER, and Disquiet Time (coedited with Jennifer Grant). Falsani is a longtime correspondent for Religion News Service and a featured writer for Sojourners, where she was the director of new media from 2010 to 2012. She was the religion writer and columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times from 2000 to 2010, and was the faith and values columnist for the Orange County Register. In addition to her work covering religion in the United States and abroad, Falsani has written extensively about global poverty, AIDS and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, and other issues affecting the developing world. In 2005, Falsani received the James O. Supple Religion Writer of the Year award from the Religion Newswriters Association, and she twice has been a finalist for the Templeton Religion Reporter of the Year award. She serves as a member of the advisory board for Girls and Women at the ONE Campaign.

Ingrid Faro (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is coordinator of the MA in Old Testament program and visiting professor at Northern Seminary in Lisle, Illinois. She previously served as dean of academic affairs at Northern Seminary, dean of theology at the Scandinavian School of Theology, and director of masters programs at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She is the author of Evil in Genesis and coauthor of Honest Answers. Additionally, she serves on the editorial board of the Bulletin for Biblical Research. She speaks and preaches internationally and lives just outside Chicago, Illinois.

Pam Farrel and her husband, Bill, are codirectors of Masterful Living, a conference and communications ministry aimed at helping couples stay in love. Pam also has experience as a director of women's ministries, youth leader, conference speaker, radio talk show host and freelance writer. Together Pam and Bill authored the bestselling book Men Are Like Waffles, Women Are Like Spaghetti (Harvest House). Pam has authored numerous other books including 10 Best Decisions a Woman Can Make (Harvest House) and Devotions for Women on the Go! (coauthored with Steve Arterburn).

Kimberly H. Fenstermacher (PhD, CRNP) is chief nursing administrator, assistant dean of nursing, and associate professor of nursing at Messiah University.

Marnie C. Ferree (M.A., Trevecca Nazarene University), is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She is director of Bethesda Workshops in Nashville, a clinical intensive treatment program for sex addicts, co-addicts and couples. Ferree formally worked as a marriage and family therapist at Woodmont Hills Counseling Center in Nashville.

Jessica Leep Fick is evangelism resources director for Stonecroft, a women's ministry based in Kansas City. Previously she served as a writer and evangelist for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, preaching, teaching and doing evangelism training at conferences, churches and campus groups across the country. She loves to help believers have fun with Jesus in his mission and talk with people who don't follow Jesus about their spiritual questions. Jessica believes that the good news of Jesus should influence every area of life—not just the soul—and is passionate about following Jesus as a wife, mom, preacher, neighbor, student and friend. She has a master's degree in evangelism and leadership from Wheaton College Graduate School and lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband and two sons.

Leslie Leyland Fields is the award-winning author of twelve books, the founder of Your Story Matters Ministry, and an international teacher and speaker on matters of faith and culture. When not traveling, she lives on two islands in Alaska, where she has worked in commercial fishing with her family and where she leads the Harvester Island Writers' Workshop.

Dalene Joy Fisher (PhD, University of Kent) is assistant provost, dean, and associate professor of English at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. She is the coauthor of Academic Writing and the Emerging Scholar.

Kelly S. Flanagan (PhD, Pennsylvania State University) is clinical director of a pediatric development center in northwestern Illinois. She previously worked as associate professor of psychology and PsyD program director at Wheaton College.

Liita Forsyth is an illustrator and teacher. After years as a graphic designer and an art director, Liita opened a makerspace called "The Little Bits Workshop" where kids of all ages learn hand skills, art, and crafts of all kinds. She is also the art teacher for The Field School Chicago.

Renich Fraser (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is professor of systematic theology at Palmer Theological Seminary (formerly Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is coauthor (with Louis A. Kilgore) of Making Friends with the Bible.

Sundee Tucker Frazier is a full-time mother and children's writer. She worked for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for ten years, first on campus staff and then as the worship leader with her husband, Matt, for Urbana 2000, InterVarsity's student missions convention. She is the author of Check All That Apply (IVP, 2002) and Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It (Delacorte Press/Random House, 2007).

Alice Fryling is a spiritual director and the author of nine books, including Seeking God Together: An Introduction to Group Spiritual Direction. She has been giving Enneagram workshops for fifteen years, teaching participants how to use the Enneagram to know God and themselves more deeply. She and her husband have two married daughters and four grandchildren.

Diana R. Garland is dean of the Baylor School of Social Work at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Her other books include Sacred Stories of Ordinary Families, Church Social Work and Flawed Families of the Bible (with David Garland).

Tracey Gee has over twenty years of ministry experience as an area director with InterVarsity. She designs training experiences and provides coaching for a range of leaders from college students to national directors, board members, and executive teams. With degrees from UCLA in anthropology/business and from Fuller Seminary in leadership, she is the coeditor of More Than Serving Tea: Asian American Woman on Expectations, Relationships, Leadership and Faith.

Bridget Gee is the spiritual formation coordinator for InterVarsity's Study Abroad programs, where she directs European pilgrimages for students, staff, and partners to experience contemplative and historic followings of Jesus. She is the host of Soladarity: The Singleness Podcast and lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Elizabeth Gerhardt (ThD, Boston University) is professor of theology and social ethics at Northeastern Seminary, Rochester, New York, and adjunct professor in the department of religion and humanities at Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester.

Heather Davediuk Gingrich is professor of counseling at Denver Seminary and maintains a private practice working with complex trauma survivors. She is the coauthor of Skills for Effective Counseling and coeditor of Treating Trauma in Christian Counseling.

Wanjiru M. Gitau (PhD, Africa International University) is a research fellow at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California, pursuing a multi-year global research project commissioned by the John Templeton World Charity Foundation on contemporary religion. She is a Kenyan educated in Nairobi, Edinburgh, and the United States, with extensive global experience, including research projects from Korea to Kentucky. She formerly served on the staffs of Nairobi Chapel and Mavuno Church.

Sandra L. Glahn is professor of media arts and worship at Dallas Theological Seminary, where her emphases are first-century backgrounds related to women, culture, gender, and the arts. She has authored or edited more than twenty books, including Vindicating the Vixens, Earl Grey with Ephesians, Sanctified Sexuality (coeditor), and Sexual Intimacy in Marriage (coauthor).

Paula Gooder (DPhil, Oxford) is a writer and lecturer in biblical studies with a passion to ignite people's enthusiasm for reading the Bible today, by presenting the best of biblical scholarship in an accessible and interesting way. She works for the Church of England as the director of mission learning and development in the Birmingham Diocese.

Haley Goranson Jacob (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is assistant professor in the theology department of Whitworth University.