Michael is an author, and editor of Christian fiction. and a scholar of George MacDonald. Michael graduated in 1969 from Humboldt State University with a degree in physics[3] and has run independent bookstores in both California and Oregon. He has written for the Christian market since 1977 and is the author of more than a hundred books. Phillips is recognized as one of the premier novelists of the Christian fiction boom of the 1980s, while his books have been translated into eight different languages. 

Judith is an author of Christian fiction. Many of her books are historical in nature and involve extensive research. She is a bestselling, award-winning author whose writing career spans two decades. Her in-depth historical and geographical research combines with her skillful storytelling to provide readers with dramatic, thought-provoking novels. She and her husband make their home in Scapoose, Oregon.