Robert Banks was formerly professor of the ministry of the laity at Fuller Theological Seminary and is the author of books on earliest Christianity, new forms of church life, faith, work, and leadership. Linda Banks has worked as an educator, pastor, and university chaplain. They have cowritten three earlier mission biographies, They Shall See His Face (Pickwick, 2017), Through the Valley of the Shadow (Pickwick, 2019), and Children of the Massacre (Pickwick, 2021).