TGBC's Editorial Director is Carl Laferton. He is the author of Original Jesus, Promises Kept, and The Garden, the Curtain, and the Cross, as well as the God's Word For You series' series editor. He worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a preacher in Hull before coming to TGBC. Carl has two children, Benjamin and Abigail, with his wife Lizzie. He went to Oxford University to study history.