Ruth and Esther: A 12-Week Study

About Kathleen Nielson

Kathleen Nielson (PhD Vanderbilt University) is an author and speaker who loves working with women in studying the Scriptures. After directing the Gospel Coalitions womens initiatives from 20102017 she now serves as senior adviser and book editor for TGC. She and her husband Niel make their home partly in Wheaton Illinois and partly in Jakarta Indonesia. They have three sons two daughters-in-law and five granddaughters.J. I. Packer (19262020) served as the Board of Governors Professor of Theology at Regent College. He authored numerous books including the classic bestseller Knowing God. Packer also served as general editor for the English Standard Version Bible and as theological editor for the ESV Study Bible.Lane T. Dennis (PhD Northwestern University) is the former president and CEO of Crossway. Before joining Crossway in 1974 he served as a pastor in campus ministry at the University of Michigan (Sault Ste. Marie) and as the managing director of Verlag Grosse Freude in Switzerland. He is the author and/or editor of three books including the Gold Medallion-award-winning book Letters of Francis A. Schaeffer and he is the former chairman of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. Dennis serves as the chairman of the ESV (English Standard Version) Bible Translation Oversight Committee and as the executive editor of the ESV Study Bible. Lane and his wife Ebeth live in Wheaton Illinois.Dane C. Ortlund (PhD Wheaton College) serves as senior pastor of Naperville Presbyterian Church in Naperville Illinois. He is the author of Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers and Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners. Dane and his wife Stacey have five children.