Christopher W. Skinner is Professor of New Testament & Early Christianity at Loyola University Chicago. He has authored nearly three dozen articles and book chapters and written or edited nine books, including Mark as Story: Retrospect and Prospect (with Kelly R. Iverson; Society of Biblical Literature, 2011), What Are They Saying about the Gospel of Thomas? (Paulist, 2011), Characters and Characterization in the Gospel of John (Bloomsbury/T & T Clark, 2013), Reading John (Cascade, 2015), and Johannine Ethics: The Moral World of the Gospel and Epistles of John (Fortress, 2017).