Barry Cooper is all over the shop. He's a former actor and comedian turned author and pastor.

He’s Associate Teaching Pastor at Christ Community Church Daytona. Formerly he was Supervising Producer at Ligonier Ministries, and he's one of the creators of Christianity Explored, a series that has to date been used in 100 countries, and translated into 50 languages. He’s written / co-written / presented things.

Barry has a degree in English Literature from St Catherine’s College, Oxford, and one in Christian Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago. He wrote and performed in various comedy shows at Oxford, and having trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, co-ran a theatre company for seven years. You may have seen him wearing tights at Shakespeare’s Globe or London’s National Theatre, sometimes even while he was acting.

James Cary is a bit of an odd mix. He is a writer of situation comedy for BBC TV (eg. Miranda, Bluestone 42) and Radio (Think the Unthinkable, Hut 33) and blogs about the technicalities of the process. He has also written a book called Writing That Sitcom. 

James Cary is also a Christian, with tendencies towards Calvinism (see? I warned you he was odd). He is also a member of the House of Laity of the General Synod for the Church of England for the Diocese of Bath & Wells. He has a degree in Theology from the University of Durham, preaches at his church from time to time and has no plans to become a vicar.

His heroes include GK Chesterton, CS Lewis, William Wilberforce, PG Wodehouse, PJ O’Rourke and David Gower. He is also painfully aware that he has had to write all of the above about himself and make it look like someone else has written it.