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Bruce Ford is a musician and compiler of "The American Gradual," which is a comprehensive adaptation of the Roman Mass Proper to contemporary English words. (Source: americangradual.org)

Leighton Ford is widely known as preacher, speaker, and author, having spoken to large crowds in forty countries, alternated with Billy Graham on the weekly broadcast of the Hour of Decision, created a daily inspirational TV feature, and published a dozen books. (Source and photo: leightonford.art)

Zach Ford is an epic fantasy novelist who has stumbled into a second calling as a modern psalmist and liturgy writer. In between making stories about dragons and magic, they aim to create original, lyrical prayers expressing the full range of their emotions and their relationship with God. (Source: worshipwords.co.uk)

Matt Forster is a freelance writer and editor from Clarkston, MI. (Source: christianhistoryinstitute.org)

Wayne Forte is a Filipino-American artist, and studied at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Irvine (B.A. 1973; M.F.A. 1976). Wayne lives with his wife and four children in Laguna Niguel, CA and attends Capo Beach Church, San Juan Capistrano, CA. Wayne has been a member of CIVA...

Annette Fortt is a fine artist and printmaker based in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. She graduated from Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis) in 1966 and began an art teaching career. She later earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute in 1983. Annette's work has...

Venantius Fortunatus (c.540-c. 600) was a poet and bishop of Poitiers, France, whose Latin poems and hymns combine echoes of classical Latin poets with a medieval tone, making him an important transitional figure between the ancient and medieval periods. (Source: britannica.com)

Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) was an American pastor. Fosdick became a central figure in the Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th century. Although a Baptist, he was called to serve as pastor, in...

Rev. Michael W. Foss retired as Senior Pastor of St. Mark Lutheran Church in West Des Moines, IA, and serves as Mission Life Director at New Life Lutheran Church in Norwalk, IA. He graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with a B.A. in Religion, and with a Master of Divinity Degree from Wartburg Theological...

Richard J. Foster founded Renovaré in 1988, a ministry devoted to church renewal, and served as its President until 2008, continuing in an advisory role since. He is best known for Celebration of Discipline, followed by numerous other books including Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home and Streams of Living...