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Archpriest Lawrence Farley is the pastor of St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church (OCA) in Langley, B.C., Canada. He received his B.A. from Trinity College, Toronto, and his M.Div. from Wycliffe College, Toronto. A former Anglican priest, he converted to Orthodoxy in 1985 and studied for two years at St....

Rita Ferrone is an award-winning writer and frequent speaker on issues of liturgy and church renewal in the Roman Catholic tradition. She is currently a contributing writer and columnist for Commonweal magazine and an independent scholar. She is the former editor of The Yale ISM Review, an ecumenical journal of...

Rev. Eric C. Fistler is the pastor to the First Congregational Church of Crystal Lake. Originally from Chicago, he majored in Religion and Ancient Philosophy at Augustana College in Rock Island and graduated with his M. Div from Eden Theological Seminary, Webster Groves, MO. Pastor Eric is ordained in the...

David Fitch is B. R. Lindner Chair of Evangelical Theology at Northern Seminary Chicago, IL. He is also the founding pastor of Life on the Vine Christian Community, a missional church in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago. He writes on the issues the local church must face in Mission including...

Ryan Flanigan is a liturgical folk artist and church music director at All Saints Church Dallas. As an artist rooted in the Christian Story, Ryan's works to create beautiful and believable sacred music for the sake of the world. He believes the church can be a credible witness of God's...

The Rev. Dr. William Edward Flippin, Jr., is Assistant to the Bishop and Director of Evangelical Mission for the ELCA Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod, based in Philadelphia. Before coming to this role in 2019, he was senior pastor of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Atlanta. He is a 1998 graduate of Morehouse...

The Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence is the Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching and Worship at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. Dr. Florence is interested in historical, theological, aesthetic, and performative dimensions of preaching and the ways preaching engages other fields and different traditions. Her research focuses on testimony,...

John Foley SJ is an American Jesuit priest who is a composer of Catholic liturgical music and a professor of liturgy. Much of Foley's early work on liturgical music was as a member of a group called the St. Louis Jesuits, composed of fellow Jesuit seminarians, with whom he released...