DAVID C. FORD, Ph.D., is the Professor of Church History at St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary, South Canaan, Pennsylvania; he and his wife Dr. Mary Ford began teaching there in 1989. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y.; his Master of Divinity degree from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Ok.; and his Ph.D. in Church History and Historical Theology from Drew University in Madison, N.J. He has published eight books: Marriage as a Path to Holiness: Lives of Married Saints (co-authored with his wife Dr. Mary Ford; first edition 1994, second expanded and revised edition, St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press, 2013); Women and Men in the Early Church: The Vision of Saint John Chrysostom (St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press, first edition, 1996; second revised and expanded edition, 2017); Wisdom for Today from the Early Church (St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press, 2014); Saint Tikhon of Moscow: Instructions and Teachings for the American Orthodox Faithful (1898 - 1907) (co-edited and translated with Alex Maximov; St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press, 2016); Church History, in the revised catechetical series entitled The Orthodox Faith (vol. 3 in this series, in which he revised and more than doubled the original text by Fr. Thomas Hopko; St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2016); Saint John Chrysostom's Letters to Saint Olympia (introduction and original translation; number 56 in the SVS Popular Patristics Series; 2016); Sing to Your Soul, vol. 1: The Narration of Salvation History in Selected Passages by St. John Chrysostom (selected, edited, and translated; St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press, 2020); Sing to Your Soul, vol. 2: Our Life in the Church in Selected Passages by St. John Chrysostom (St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press, 2121); and the booklet Prayer and the Departed Saints (Conciliar Press, 1991).  He coedited (with his wife Mary, and Dr. Alf Kentigern Siewers) and contributed two articles to Glory and Honor: Orthodox Christian Resources on Marriage (SVS Press, 2016); he coedited (with Dr. Fr. Alexander Webster and Dr. Alf Kentigern Siewers) and contributed an article to Healing Humanity: Confronting Our Moral Crisis (Holy Trinity Seminary Press, Jordanville, N.Y.; 2020); and he edited The Life and Work of Metropolitan Leonty, 1876-1965: Studies, Testimonials, and Writings (St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press, 2019). He is also at work on three more books: editing Speaking the Truth in Love (St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press, forthcoming); Saint John Chrysostom, Sermons at Dramatic Moments in His Life (introduction and original translation; SVS Popular Patristics series, forthcoming); and Sing to Your Soul, vol. 3: Daily Christian Living in Selected Passages by St. John Chrysostom (St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press, forthcoming). In addition, he and his wife Mary, along with Fr. Theodore Petrides, wrote and edited the 21 one-page topical articles in the Old Testament portion of The Orthodox Study Bible (Thomas Nelson, Nashville, Tenn., 2008). He and Dr. Mary have one child, Emmelia Potteiger, married to Brandon Potteiger; and one grandchild thus far—Winsley Elizabeth Potteiger.