WILLIAM POWELL TUCK has served as pastor in Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana, and North Carolina in university and seminary churches. He has been a seminary professor and has taught adjunctively at several colleges and presently is an adjunct professor at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, including Knowing God: Religious Knowledge in the Theology of John Baillie and Our Baptist Tradition. He received the Parish Pastor of the Year Award from the Academy of Parish Clergy and an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Richmond. He is married to Emily Campbell and has two children and three grandchildren. He resides in Midlothian, Virginia.