Elizabeth F. Caldwell is a noted Christian educator and best-selling author or editor of many books for adults and children, including Waiting: Spending Advent with the Psalms; Pause: Spending Lent with the Psalms; God's Big Plan, with Theodore Hiebert; and Growing in God's Love: A Story Bible, with Carol Wehrheim. She is Harold Blake Walker Professor Emerita of Pastoral Theology at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, former Visiting Professor in Religious Education at Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, and a member of the Common English Bible Editorial Board. Elizabeth F. Caldwell is a noted Christian educator. She is Professor Emerita of Pastoral Theology at McCormick Theological Seminary and former Visiting Professor in Religious Education at Vanderbilt Divinity School. She was a member of the Common English Bible Editorial Board. She is the author of Pause: Spending Lent with the Psalms, coauthor of God's Big Plan, and coeditor of Growing in God's Love: A Story Bible.

Theodore Hiebert is Francis A. McGaw Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at McCormick Theological Seminary, where he served as a member of the faculty and academic dean, and was an editor and translator of the Common English Bible. A leading scholar among theological educators, he has done groundbreaking work in the study of Genesis.