Elizabeth C. Chapman, Founder of Paraklete Press and the author of the Bible Studies, is a graduate of the University of California SF, and an adult Bible study leader and Sunday school teacher for many years. Elizabeth has been writing the Lectionary Study since 1989, and added the Revised Common Lectionary Bible Study in 2003.
She was encouraged by her late uncles, the Rt. Rev. Jonathan Sherman, the retired Episcopal Bishop of Long Island and the Rev. Mac Casady of Seattle.

Thomas Casady III,Editor of the Bible studies, is a graduate of California State University at Hayward and has for many years been affiliated with an interdenominational Bible study ministry.