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Dr. Brad R. Braxton serves as President and Professor of Public Theology at Chicago Theological Seminary, bringing decades of experience as a biblical scholar and expert in preaching. He has taught at leading institutions including Southern Methodist University, Vanderbilt University, and Wake Forest University, and has lectured at Georgetown, Harvard...

Susan Brecht is a liturgist and contributor to Worship Words. She is an an ordained minister, and the author of the book Re-imagining Worship. (Source: worshipwords.co.uk)

Dr. Brennan Breed is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, and an ordained minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He is the author of, contributor to, and editor of multiple books and volumes on biblical reception and interpretation. Breed serves as a Main Editor for...

Bartholomeus Breenbergh (1598-1657) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of Italian and Italianate landscapes, in Rome (1619-1630) and Amsterdam (1630-1657). (Source: wikipedia.org)

Dr. Marc Brettler is the Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Duke University. The Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies Emeritus and former chair of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, he has also taught at Yale...

Bridge Music started in 2009 in Hyderabad, India and began as a band, later developing into a fuller worship ministry. Sheldon Bangera is one of India's most popular worship leaders and composers in (mostly) urban music genres, and plays a key role in the ministry. 

Dr. Valerie Bridgeman is Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs, and Associate Professor of Homiletics and Hebrew Bible at Methodist School of Theology in Ohio. Dr. Bridgeman is a graduate of Baylor University, Austin Theological Seminary, Trinity University, and is author of the entry on Homiletics in The Oxford...

Rev. Susan R. Briehl is a pastor of the ELCA. She served as Executive Director of Holden Village, a Lutheran center for renewal in the North Cascade Mountains in Washington State. Previously she served with her husband for eight years as campus pastors at Pacific Lutheran University, and for five years as...

Rev. Dr. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge is the dean and president emerita of Seminary of the Southwest, having retired in 2024. She was appointed in 2013 after serving on the faculty as the Ernest J. Villavaso, Jr. Professor of New Testament and as academic dean. She graduated from Williams College and...

William Bright (1824–1901) was an English ecclesiastical historian and Anglican priest; he is known for his hymns. He was educated at University College, Oxford. In 1847 he was Johnson's Theological Scholar, and in 1848 he also obtained the Ellerton Theological Essay prize. He was elected Fellow in 1847, and subsequently...