Profile: Douglas Bond is author of more than thirty books of historical fiction, biography, devotion, and practical theology, including several books now in Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, and Korean. Two-book Grace Award finalist (The Revolt and The Battle of Seattle, 2016), Bond is director of the Oxford Creative Writing Master Class, has served as adjunct instructor in church history and creative writing at three institutions of higher learning, and leads Church history tours in Europe. He is father of six children and eleven (and counting) grandchildren. He also serves as a copy editor for individual authors and publishing houses.He has served as adjuct instructor of history and creative writing at several institutions of higher learning where his Church history tours can be taken for undergraduate and graduate elective credit. Bond has earned a Masters in Teaching (MIT) from St Martin's University, and a Preliminary Certificate in Theology from Moore Theological College, NSW Australia. He has taught English and history for many years, and was awarded by the Pierce County Library Foundation and Arts Commission the "2005 Teacher Award" for teaching young adults how to write; his high-school-aged writers have consistently dominated local and regional writing contests, including a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place sweep of the three-state and British Columbia Optimist 2015 essay writing contest, for which the Optimist Club awarded Bond the 2015 "Teacher of the Year." As an outgrowth of his extensive teaching and writing, Bond is sometimes available to do copy editing for individual authors and publishing houses, and he frequently speaks on writing at various conferences. Additionally, Bond has ministered overseas in the United Kingdom, Western Australia, Peru, the Kingdom of Tonga, and with Equipping Leaders International (ELI) in Uganda.He has served on the advisory board of Glorious Films (Montreal) with Derek Thomas, Michael Haykin, and others (2014). For the Psalms Project (2009), funded by the Lilly Foundation, Bond was selected to be a speaker at Union University and to contribute a chapter to the book Forgotten Songs. As a hymn writer and author of several books on hymnody, Bond was a consultant for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) special feature series on Christian hymns, God's Greatest Hits (2012). His NEW REFORMATION HYMNS album released in 2017, and his hymns appear in Cantus Christi and Treasury of Psalms and Hymns hymnals. He was script writer for Ligonier's award-winning LUTHER IN REAL TIME (NRB 2023 most original podcast)…
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