Tim Mackie is the co-founder of the BibleProject, a nonprofit animation studio helping people experience the Bible as a unified story that leads to Jesus. He is the former pastor of Blackhawk Church in Madison, Wisconsin, and Door of Hope Church in Portland, Oregon. Mackie also served as a part-time professor at Western Seminary. His early research interests focused on the manuscript history of the Bible and the biblical canon. Mackie holds a bachelor’s degree from Multnomah University, a theology degree from Western Seminary and a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.