Wanda Elizabeth "Beth" Moore was born Wanda Elizabeth Green on June 16, 1957 in Wisconsin. She attended Southwest Texas State University where she graduated with a degree in political science. She is the founder of Living Proof Ministries, a Bible-based organization for women based in Houston, Texas. The ministry focuses on aiding women who desire to model their lives on evangelical Christian principles. The ministry, in conjunction with LifeWay Christian Resources, conducts conferences, known as "Living Proof Live", around the United States. From 2007 to 2011, Moore, Kay Arthur, and Priscilla Shirer, collaborated on another LifeWay weekend conference, "Deeper Still: The Event". Moore also teaches through her radio show, Living Proof with Beth Moore, and appears as a regular on the television program LIFE Today, where she hosts "Wednesdays in the Word". Moore also writes books and produces video resources based on the Bible studies that she conducts at the Living Proof Live conferences and at Houston's First Baptist Church. Her titles include When Godly People Do Ungodly Things, Believing God, Get Out Of That Pit, and So Long Insecurity: You've been a bad friend to us. In 2014 she made The New York Times Best Seller List with Portraits of Devotion.