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Dr. Charles L. Bartow is Egner Professor of Speech Communication Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned a B.A. (1958) and M.A. (1964) from Michigan State University, a B.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary (1963), and a Ph.D. from New York University (1971). Professionally, he served as an assistant in speech at...

Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great (330-378), was an early Roman Christian prelate who served as Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia from 370 until his death in 378. He was an influential theologian who supported the Nicene Creed and opposed the heresies of the early Christian church,...

Dr. Dorothy C. Bass is a practical theologian, historian, mother, grandmother, and stepmother. During twenty-five years as director of the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith, a Lilly Endowment project supporting the renewal of Christian theology and life, she wrote, edited, or coedited more than a...

Jacopo Bassano (1510-1592), known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice. Trained in the workshop of his father, Francesco the Elder, and studying under Bonifazio Veronese in Venice, he painted mostly religious paintings including landscape and genre...

Leandro Bassano (1557-1622), also called Leandro dal Ponte, was an Italian artist from Bassano del Grappa, who was awarded a knighthood by the Doge of Venice. He was the younger brother of artist Francesco Bassano the Younger and third son of artist Jacopo Bassano. (Source: wikipedia.org)

David Bast is one of Groundwork's original, founding co-hosts, and retired from Groundwork in May 2021. He also served as the President and Broadcast Minister of Words of Hope for 23 years until he retired in January 2017. Prior to his ministry and work at Words of Hope, Dave served...

Robert J. Batastini is the retired vice president and senior editor of GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago. He has over fifty-five years of service in pastoral music ministry, having served several parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago and one in the Diocese of Joliet. He served as executive editor and project...

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (1708-1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. (Source: wikipedia.org)