Sam Shammas has a Master’s degree in English Literature from St Peter's College, Oxford University and trained at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She worked for six years at All Souls Church Langham Place in London, where she co-wrote and developed Christianity Explored, Discipleship Explored, and CY (a curriculum for youth based on Mark’s Gospel). She currently works at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, where she co-wrote and developed the curriculum for Timothy Keller’s The Reason for God and The Prodigal God, as well as an eight-week discipleship curriculum, Gospel in Life