Albert Y. Hsu is Senior Editor for IVP Books at and earned his PhD in educational studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He is the author of , , and , and has been a writer and columnist for Christianity Today. Al also served as senior warden on the vestry of Church of the Savior in Wheaton, Illinois. He and his wife, Ellen, have two sons and live in the Chicago suburbs.