Doug Schmidt

Award-winning, (but super-humble), Content Developer

Editor, Chaplain, Zondervan Author

Doug’s singular focus is generating well-crafted questions that encourage the ownership of belief.

  • Zondervan Author: Contributing Writer (& Editor) for The Quest Study Bible (over one million sold) 
  • Navpress Author: Two (2) LifeChange Bible Studies (over 2.5 million sold in the series)
  • David C. Cook Author: Two (2) books and numerous small-group resources
  • David C. Cook Editorial Manager: Three (3) curriculum lines, representing 128 products a quarter.
  • Content Developer for 700+ sermon-based discussion guides  
  • As an associate editor with David C. Cook, won an ECPA award for best new curriculum product (I.D.)
  • As an associate editor with David C. Cook, created the company’s first digital curriculum product, Real Life Downloaded
  • Former General Editor of the David C. Cook Bible Lesson Commentary and Understanding the Bible.
  • Degrees in Biblical Studies (B.A) & Systematic Theology (M.A.) from Wheaton College and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
  • Consultant & Instructor for Peacemaker Ministries (re-engineering their mediation curriculum)
  • Certified Facilitator for Prepare/Enrich (a marital counseling program)
  • Certified in GiANT University’s 5-Voices Program (Doug’s Top Three Voices: Creative, Connector, Pioneer)
  • Licensed Chaplain: New Beginnings Pastor, Crossroads Church, Thornton, Colorado (15 years)
  • Producer: The Collision Podcast

Currently pitching the The Human Dilemma Project trade-book series [through WordServe Literary (Greg Johnson), whose agency has represented over 2,300+ books].

These projects will follow the model of The LifeChange Studies (over 2.5 million sold in the series). [Doug has written two of the LifeChange guides.]

HumanDilemmaProject.org

TikTok Channel!
“Quotes & Questions”

http://www.tiktok.com/@quotesandquestions7

@quotesandquestions7

As an editorial manager of three curriculum lines, (used by 26 different denominations), Doug became an expert in the nuances of mutually-acceptable language used by diverse groups … which will be absolutely essential to The Human Dilemma Project (see description above).