Douglas Bond is the chairman of the English Department and a long-serving teacher at Covenant High School in Tacoma, Washington. He is the author of several works of fiction, many of which are aimed at young readers, such as the Crown & Covenant trilogy (which follows a Covenanter family in Scotland) and the Faith and Freedom trilogy (which follows the same family to Revolutionary America). Stand Firm in the Way of Truth and Hold Firm in a Broken World are two of his nonfiction books.