Glen L. Thompson received an MDiv from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary and MA and PhD degrees in history from Columbia University. He served as a missionary in Zambia, New York City, and Hong Kong, and held professorships at Wisconsin Lutheran College (Milwaukee) and most recently at Asia Lutheran Seminary (Hong Kong) where he also served as Academic Dean until his retirement in 2020. He has published numerous articles and books on church history and missions and founded Fourth-Century Christianity, a widely used website on early Christianity. His most recent books are In This Way We Came to Rome: With Paul on the Appian Way (Lexham Press, 2024) and Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China (Eerdmans, 2024).