Beyond Bible Study: From Consumers to Participants (Caroline Smiley and Kyle Worley)

Caroline Smiley lives in Dallas, Texas with her husband and three children. She is a Bible teacher and a PhD student studying Mary and the gospel of Luke. Caroline leads and teaches in her church’s women’s Bible study as well as theological discipleship ministry. Her passion is to help people understand the story of Scripture and find their place in it.

Kyle Worley (ThM, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) of Mosaic Church in Richardson, Texas, and he feels a particular burden to raise up, equip, and release a gospel-centered family of disciple-makers there. He previously served at The Village Church and is the host of the Knowing Faith Podcast and the author of Pitfalls: Along the Path to Young and Reformed.

He’s spent several years living and pastoring in the Richardson area—leading home groups and providing biblical and theological training. He is married to Lauren, a former elementary educator, and they adopted Lydia Joanna in November 2016.

Founder and Director of the Center for Hebraic Thought

Dru teaches Biblical literature, theology, and biblical interpretation at The King’s College. He is an editor for the Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biblical Criticism series; an associate director for the Jewish Philosophical Theology Project at The Herzl Institute in Israel; and a co-host for the OnScript Podcast. His recent books include Biblical Philosophy: An Hebraic Approach to the Old and New Testaments (Cambridge University Press); Human Rites: The Power of Rituals, Habits, and Sacraments (Eerdmans); and Epistemology and Biblical Theology (Routledge). 

Before that, he was a high-school dropout, skinhead, punk rock drummer, combat veteran, IT supervisor, and pastor—all things that he hopes none of his children ever become.

He and his wife have four children. Interviews, articles, and excerpts of books can found at drujohnson.com.