Jennifer Erin Valent
Jennifer Erin Valent is a Christy Award-winning author and winner of the 2007 Christian Writers Guild's Operation First Novel contest. A lifelong resident of the South, her surroundings help to color the scenes and characters she writes. In fact, the…

Kasey Van Norman
Kasey Van Norman is the founder and President of Kasey Van Norman Ministries in College Station, Texas. Her ministry passion is two-fold: to reach those who are far from God, and to ignite a spiritual flame in those who know Him. Kasey's teaching style…

Bob Vander Plaats
After growing up in Sheldon, Iowa, Bob pursued a career as an educator and earned master's and specialist's degrees in the area of educational leadership from Drake University. In 1996 Bob became president and chief executive officer of Opportunities…

Ellen Vaughn
Ellen Vaughn is a bestselling author and inspirational speaker. Besides Shattered, her recent books include Time Peace, Radical Gratitude, Lost Boy, and It's All About Him. The last debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Vaughn's award-winning…

David R. Veerman
Dave played high school basketball and football and college football. Since then, he has finished six marathons. A graduate of Wheaton College (B.A.) and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.Div.), Dave has written sixty-five books, including Parenting…

Lisa Velthouse
Lisa Velthouse is a freelance writer and speaker who has been working in communications and ministry for over a decade. She got her start in publishing at the age of 17 when she was selected from over 1,000 applicants to write a year's worth of columns…

Brenda Verner
Brenda J. Verner, Ed.M., Harvard University, is a media analyst who has lectured at America's most prestigious universities. Her longest standing passion has been to make Christmas focused on Christ. In 1983, Brenda launched a "Happy Birthday Jesus" marketing…

Jim Vigorito
Jim Vigorito received his Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University in 1978. He has been licensed as a psychologist since 1981 and listed on the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology since 1982. He is a sex offense–specific evaluator…

Frank Viola
FRANK VIOLA is a popular conference speaker and the bestselling author of numerous books on the deeper Christian life and church renewal, including Pagan Christianity? (coauthored with George Barna), Reimagining Church, Epic Jesus, Revise Us Again, From…

Phil Vischer
In 1990, 24-year-old computer animator Phil Vischer sat down to create a group of characters that could teach Christian values to kids in a delightfully weird way. Hence, a tomato named Bob and a cucumber named Larry were born. VeggieTales would go on…

Jane Vogel
Jane Vogel has been active in youth ministry for more than 20 years as a writer and a youth worker. She is the coauthor of the student editions of the Lee Strobel books The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creator, and The Case for…

Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskamp is a writer with DaySpring (a division of Hallmark), a contributing editor to Laity Lodge's The High Calling, and a global advocate for the poor, traveling for Compassion International. With an educational background in psychology and education…