Mark E. Ross is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Erskine Theological Seminary in South Carolina, USA, and Director of the Institute for Reformed Worship. Prior to joining the Erskine faculty in 2004 he served for twenty years as Associate Pastor for Teaching at the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina. From 2003-2008 he chaired the Special Committee on Worship in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, which produced the new Directory of Public Worship adopted by the church in 2008.
Dr Ross holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh (BA, 1974), Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (M.Div., 1979), and the University of Keele in England (Ph.D., 1984). He is the author of Let’s Study Matthew (Banner of Truth, 2009). He and his wife, Connie, have two children and five grandchildren.