Daniel G. Bagby is the Theodore F. Adams Professor of Pastoral Care at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. Son of missionary parents to Brazil, Dan is a graduate of Baylor University (B.A., M.S.) and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div., Ph.D.). He has pastored for twenty-six years, served in two pastoral counseling centers, and as chaplain to a juvenile detention center and a womens prison.
Loren L. Townsend is Henry Morris Edmonds Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.