Sally and Andy Langford are United Methodist pastors in North Carolina. Their daughter Ann Langford Duncan is a United Methodist pastor serving in California.

Andy’s family have been Methodists for at least six generations, while Sally became United Methodist after college. Ann was born into this tradition.

Sally was educated at Converse College, Duke Divinity School, and Vanderbilt University. She has pastored in North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, and served as an assistant to Bishop Larry Goodpaster and twice as a district superintendent. She taught United Methodist polity at Hood Theological Seminary. She was a delegate to three General Conferences. In 2011 she and Andy wrote Living as United Methodist Christians: Our History, Our Beliefs, Our Practices (Abingdon).

Andy graduated from Davidson College, Duke Divinity School, and Emory University. He worked on The United Methodist Hymnal committee; edited The United Methodist Book of Worship; directed worship, music, and preaching training and resources for all United Methodist congregations; and attended eight General Conferences either as staff or as a delegate. He also served for twelve years as a voting member on The General Council on Ministries/Connectional Table, the highest general agency in the denomination, which coordinates the work and budgets of the agencies that serve the worldwide United Methodist Church.

Ann, a former Peace Corps volunteer, is a graduate of Duke University and Boston University School of Theology. She has pastored in congregations in North Carolina and now serves a congregation in Burlingame, California. In 2012, she wrote with her father The Gospel According to the Hunger Games Trilogy.

They have all served in a wide variety of United Methodist congregations and on district, conference, jurisdictional, and global committees, and have written many other books and resources. This is their first book together.