Curt Gesch
is a retired school teacher who lives in Quick, British Columbia.  He and his wife, Betsey, live on a farm and moose pasture; the farm's name is Eskerhazy.  Their children presently are living in Calgary; St. John's, Newfoundland; and Hamilton, Ontario. Curt enjoys music - psalms, hymns, classical, jazz, and blues - playing the piano, gardening, reading about farming, preaching, and reading.  Betsey and Curt also enjoy visiting the sick and seniors even older than themselves (both are presently deacons in Telkwa Christian Reformed Church) and working with children. They also love spending quiet days and nights are home with each other.

Derek Schuurman
studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo and completed a Ph.D at MacMaster University. He worked for several years in industry before returning to teach in academia where he is currently an associate professor of Computer Science at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario. Besides his technical work he has also thought and taught about reconciling faith and computer technology. He along with his wife and four children live in Hamilton, Ontario. 
His website:  http://cs.redeemer.ca/derek/

Harry Antonides
born in Holland, immigrated to Canada in 1948, where he first worked as a farm hand and railway labourer. He spent 13 years working at a chemical plant in Sarnia, Ontario. In 1962, he joined the fledgling Christian Labour Association of Canada, first as a field representative and, after 1970, as director of research and education. Since 1974, he also served in that capacity as a founding member of the Work Research Foundation (now Cardus). From 1964 till 1976, his family lived in  Vancouver, B.C.; since then he and his wife Janet have made  Willowdale, Ontario, their home base. He retired in December 1997, and has since been involved in volunteer work in church and community. He now also works as a free lance writer with a special interest in  the impact of Islam on the West and on the Christian Church. He is the author of many articles and book reviews, as well as two book length studies, dealing with multinational corporations in Canada (1978) and with the history of the Social Gospel in Canada (1985).

David T. Koyzis
was born and grew up near Chicago in a large family, where he was nurtured in the Christian faith from an early age. He now lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where he has taught political science at Redeemer University College since 1987. He is the author of the award-winning book, Political Visions and Illusions, which grew out of one of the courses he teaches. He is currently writing a second book on authority. He is an amateur poet and musician and has been working for 25 years on a project devoted to the Genevan Psalter. He knows the basics of several languages, but is fluent in only one (guess which?). He is married to Dr. Nancy Calvert Koyzis and together they have a daughter Theresa, who is an amateur artist, violinist and ornithologist. The family also includes a bilingual pet budgie named Ollie. They (except for Ollie) are members of Central Presbyterian Church in Hamilton, a dynamic 170-year-old congregation worshipping in a century-old building.
David blogs at Notes from a Byzantine-Rite Calvinist  and at First Things: Evangel. He has written a column for Christian Courier since 1990.

Marian Van Til 
is a former C.C. editor who lived in Canada from 1975-2000. She now freelances for journals and writes books, the second of which, Confessions of a Cataholic, will be released later this month. Marian is also a classical musician and the music director at a Lutheran Church. She and her husband, Ed Cassidy, live in Youngstown, NY. She blogs at http://reformedrevelry.wordpress.com/

Heidi VanderSlikke
grew up in the Niagara Peninsula with dreams of becoming a writer. But she took a paying job instead. Working as a bookkeeper led to studies in accounting and credit management, all of which proved to be very practical when she married Jack—her Prince Farming—in 1978. They have lived happily ever after (most of the time) on their farm near Harriston, Ontario. They have three grown children and (so far) one incredibly cute grandson.
For the last ten years Heidi has been a columnist for Christian Courier, as well as having written short stories, devotionals and articles for other publications. She is a professional member of The Word Guild.
She enjoys the outdoors, animals, photography, reading and motorcycles. She and Jack have ridden to Canada’s east coast and through various parts of the US, including the Florida Everglades. They hope to one day take their bikes across Canada to British Columbia. In the meantime, she continues to write about what she loves best—faith, family and farm life.

Meindert
van der Galien
Maynard prefers his given name, Meindert. He was born in Holland n 1949, immigrated with his family to Canada in 1953 and settled on a farm in Renfrew County in the Ottawa Valley. He downsized his 420 acres and cattle numbers after cattle prices fell drastically in 2003.
Maynard enjoys travel. He's been to most European countries, including Russia. He enjoys gardening and reading -no sports. Last year at age 59 he married Helen Mae Waite - a nurse. Mae works a few days a month at a local nursing home. They enjoy quiet times at their cottage at Colton Lake.
Maynard served on a number of boards. He was a director of the Renfrew County Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) for 3l years.
He writes weekly and monthly columns, which he has done for 2l years. Maynard and Mae attend Hebron Christian Reformed church in Renfrew, Ont.

Rudy Eikelboom
a Professor of Psychology, has recently gone to the dark side being elected as Chair of the Psychology Department at Wilfrid Laurier University.  He is a proud of his two children and three grandchildren. A member of the Waterloo Christian Reformed Church he is chair of the Council. Despite all these activities he still enjoys working with rats.

Arlene Van Hove
is a therapist, a mother of four adult children and a grandmother to an ever-increasing brood of delightful grandchildren.  She also belongs to the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign, a subsidiary of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which raises funds for grandmothers who are raising the next generation in countries devastated by the Aids epidemic.
As a writer Arlene hopes to provide a comforting voice for all those who struggle with the complexity of life. At the same time, she believes one of the roles of a columnist is to unflinchingly challenge 'the map when it no longer fits the ground.' And while she has less advice for others as she herself is aging, she hopes her columns will encourage her readers to develop questions and answers for themselves that continue to be worth asking and answering in the 21st Century. She is a member of the Fleetwood CRC in Surrey, B.C

Melissa Kuipers
grew up on a chicken farm just outside of Aylmer, Ontario.  She graduated from Redeemer University College in 2006 with a major in English and a double minor in Art History and Missions and went to the University of Western Ontario for her Bachelor of Education.  Melissa  now lives in St. Catharines with two wonderful teachers. She teaches English at a Christian high school where she co-leads a club called The Justice League which raises awareness about and funds for social justice issues and organizations. She enjoy travelling, jewellery -making, up-cycling (remaking used items from clothes to books to beads), singing, carpooling and family holidays.