Authors

Anthony T. Selvaggio (JD, The University of Buffalo School of Law; MDiv, Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary) is an ordained minister, a lawyer, an author, a lecturer, and a visiting professor at Ottawa Theological Hall in Ottawa, Canada. Previously he was a visiting professor at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh and was Theologian in Residence at the Rochester Reformed Presbyterian Church. He edited and contributed to The Faith Once Delivered: Essays in Honor of Dr. Wayne R. Spear. He lives in Rochester, New York, with his wife, Michelle, and their two children, Katherine and James.

William G. T. Shedd (1820–1894) was a professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York for twenty-eight years. An eminent theologian of his era, he wrote both doctrinal and pastoral works.

Speaker and author Valerie Elliot Shepard was born in Ecuador in 1955. The only daughter of martyred missionary Jim Elliot and missionary and author Elisabeth Elliot, she spent her early years living in the Amazon jungle with the Quichua and Waorani people. Valerie returned to the United States in 1963 and now lives in Long Beach, Mississippi, with her husband, Walter, a retired Presbyterian minister. They have eight children and eleven grandchildren.

Norman Shepherd taught systematic theology at Westminster Theological Seminary from 1963 to 1981, and then served two pastorates in the Christian Reformed Church before retiring in 1998.

Timothy M. Shorey has been a pastor since 1982. He currently leads Risen Hope Church, a multiethnic congregation in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and is the author of Worship Worthy and 30/30 Hindsight: 30 Reflections on a 30-Year Headache. He and Gayline have six children and numerous grandchildren.