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Dr. Andrew Donaldson is a performer, teacher, composer, and editor. He has led workshops on congregational song across North America, as well as in Korea, Indonesia, Poland, Switzerland and Scotland. He previously served as Music Director at Beaches Presbyterian Church in Toronto, Canada for two decades, and as Pastoral Musician...

Dr. Hilary Donaldson is a musician, worship leader, and educator whose work centers on congregational song, collaborative music-making, and cross-cultural worship leadership. She directs the music program at St. Andrew's United in Toronto and has led music ministries across several United Church and Presbyterian contexts, while also teaching, presenting, and...

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c. 1386-1466), better known as Donatello, was a Florentine sculptor of the Renaissance period. Born in Florence, he studied classical sculpture and used this to develop a complete Renaissance style in sculpture. Donatello's David was the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity. He worked...

John Donne (c.1571-1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. Under Royal Patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London (1621–1631). He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets....

Richard (Dick) Niell Donovan (1940-2020) was a retired Disciples of Christ clergyman and has been publishing SermonWriter since 1997. Dick served 26 years as a U.S. Army chaplain, including four years as the Homiletics Officer for the U.S. Army Chaplain Board, where he was charged with improving preaching in the Army. He...

Dr. Katharine Doob Sakenfeld is an American Old Testament scholar. She is Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis Emerita at Princeton Theological Seminary, having previously been William Albright Eisenberger Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis. She is a graduate of University of Rhode Island, Harvard Divinity School, and Harvard University. She was ordained...

Larry Doornbos is the president of Imagine Church and director of the New Horizons project. He is an experienced pastor, church planter, and leader. He began his ministry in Rehoboth, NM. During his time Rehoboth CRC took fresh steps in ministry and mission. In 1993, Larry, along with a core...

Paul Gustave Doré (1832-1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor who worked primarily with wood-engraving. He did a series of 241 engravings for La Grande Bible de Tours, a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the Vulgate Bible, popularly known as the...

David Dorn II is the Senior Pastor of Faith UMC, Richmond, TX, and is a graduate of Asbury Theological Seminary. While in seminary David founded The Pursuit Blog and the Preposterous Project ministries on YouTube where he has accrued over a million views. He is a respected blogger at daviddorn2.com and MinistryMatters.com and author of...