R. Thomas Ashbrook has served as the founder and team leader for Church Resource Ministries' (CRM) international spiritual formation ministry, the Order of Imago Christi, for the past fifteen years. He develops spiritual-formation resources and coaches Christian leaders and churches to live and lead with a spiritual authority grounded in loving intimacy with Jesus.
Eugene H. Peterson, (1932-2018) was a pastor, scholar, writer, and poet. He spent ten years working on The Message – a paraphrase of the Bible – translating it from the original Greek and Hebrew. Eugene lived with his wife, Jan, in Montana. They have three children and six grandchildren.
