Beth Bevis Gallick holds a PhD in English with a focus on Victorian literature and religious belief. When she’s not taking care of her preschooler, she works as an editor in the academic and nonprofit sectors. Her writing on Advent and other parts of the church calendar has appeared in God With Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Christmas, God For Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent and Easter, and in the forthcoming God In Us, on the season of Pentecost.