Laura A. Smit (PhD, Boston University) is professor of theology at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she has been teaching since 1999. She is also the assistant pastor of Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church in Grand Rapids. She is ordained as minister of the Word both in ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians and in the Christian Reformed Church in North America. Smit is the author of Loves Me, Loves Me Not: The Ethics of Unrequited Love and the coauthor of Judges & Ruth in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.