Douglas Bond

Douglas E. Bond (born October 29, 1958) is an American author. He has written 28 books, primarily historical fiction.
He earned a Masters in Teaching from St. Martin's University, and a Preliminary Certificate in Theology from Moore Theological College.
He was the English and history instructor at Covenant High School (CHS) in Tacoma, Washington from 1993-2015, receiving the 2005 Teacher Award from the Pierce County Library Foundation and Arts Commission, and the 2015 Teacher of the Year award from the Optimist Club. After more than two decades of positive performance reviews, he was terminated without process from CHS after the release of his book "Grace Works! (And Ways We Think It Doesn't)". Along with full-time writing and editing duties, he is Director for the Oxford Creative Writing Master Class and adjunct instructor in church history at Western Reformed Seminary.
Bond is lyricist for New Reformation Hymns and wrote the hymns for the 2017 Rise & Worship album, with music composed by Gregory Wilbur. Several of his books are translated and published in Dutch, Portuguese, and Korean. He speaks at churches and conferences, including Ligonier conferences, and in 2018 in several schools and churches in Perth, Western Australia. Additionally, since 1996, he has led history tours in Europe.
His articles have appeared in periodicals, including "Modern Reformation" and "Tabletalk," and he has spoken at conferences with Ted Tripp, Joel Beeke, Steven Lawson, Robert Godfrey, Derek Thomas, and R. C. Sproul. He was featured in a CBS news report in 2014 when a group of students he was leading on a Great Britain tour were delayed from coming home by volcanic activity in Iceland. He has served on the advisory board of Glorious Films in Montreal and Reformed University Fellowship.
He is a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. In 2015, he was elected to the General Assembly committee for Reformed University Ministries, which oversees the campus ministry of Reformed University Fellowship.