Teaching Plan Writer
Roberta Watson is a freelance writer specializing in adult and youth Bible studies. She has served the local church in Sunday School, Discipleship, and Women’s Ministry as well as her state convention and local association as a conference speaker, trainer, and education director. She holds a Master of Arts in Christian Education from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where she has served as an Adjunct Professor at the North Georgia campus. She has also worked as a General Editor for Clarity Publishing for Student Life Bible Study and LifeBibleStudy. She and her husband, Todd, have two adult children and two spoiled dogs.
Biblical Commentary Writer
Dr. Dale Younce is Professor of Christian Studies at the University of Mobile in Mobile, Alabama. He received his Th.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary and currently teaches Biblical Languages and Biblical Studies. He has led mission trips to Canada, Israel, Brazil, China, Germany, Siberia, Spain, Japan, Ireland, and the Cayman Islands. Dr. Younce enjoys spending time with his wife, daughter, three sons, and three grandchildren. He’s a big high school football fan, and his team of choice is the UMS-Wright Bulldogs. He writes for The Alabama Baptist (the Southern Baptist state denominational paper) and The Greene County Herald of Leakesville, Mississippi.
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Editor
Dr. Margie Williamson has served as a writer and editor, seminary professor, associational worker, and minister’s wife. She began writing in 1982 and has written Bible studies and devotions, Christian magazine articles, a training book for teachers of teenagers, academic articles, textbook chapters, and a dissertation. She completed two degrees at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary––a master’s and a Ph.D. in Christian Education. She worked for Clarity Publishing from 2007-2010 as the Executive Editor of LifeBibleStudy. Currently, she works as an editor for NavPress. Her favorite thing to do each week is to teach a senior adult Bible study. Margie and her husband, Bob, have two amazing children, three incredible grandchildren, and one dog who is actually the one in charge.
Copy Editor
Formerly Clarity Publishers’ General Editor for LifeBibleStudy, Jill Aldridge earned a Master of Theological Studies from Beeson Divinity School in 2004 and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Mobile in 2002. Writing has been her lifelong passion, and while in college, God impressed her with a desire to develop curriculum “for the equipping of the saints” that essentially was her job description while at LBS (Eph. 4:12). Jill is currently a freelancing mom of two busy preschool boys, Bradley and Luke, and she spends their waking hours playing with Hot Wheels® or pretending she’s a superhero, and their naptime editing, writing, cooking, cleaning, sewing, or reading. She and her husband, Ryan, live in Birmingham, Alabama, where they are members of the Church at Brook Hills.