Joshua Bitting, PhD is the Assistant Director of the Word on Fire Institute. He received his MA (Franciscan University) and his PhD (University of Notre Dame, Australia) in theology and has served in leadership for over two decades in Catholic school, parish, and diocesan ministry. He specializes in the theology and spirituality of marriage and family life and has lectured on this and other topics related to education, catechetics, theology, and marriage and family. Joshua lives with his wife and children in Rochester, Minnesota.