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Dr. Thomas W. Gillsepie (1928-2011) was a native of Los Angeles who graduated from Pepperdine University in 1951 and Princeton Theological Seminary in 1954. He earned his PhD in New Testament from Claremont Graduate School of Theology in 1971. While at Princeton, he received the A.A. Hodge Prize in Systematic...

Sr. Mary Jeremiah Gillett is a contemplative nun of the Monastery of the Infant Jesus in Lufkin, TX. She teaches classes to the sisters in the monastery formation program, and is a Councilor for the Association of Dominican Monasteries in North America. (Source: word.op.org; photo: lufkintxnuns.org)

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette has been a pastor in rural, small town, suburban, and city churches; she has also served as a hospice chaplain, a hospital chaplain, and a school bus aide helping children with special needs. She is a graduate of Lebanon Valley College and Princeton Theological Seminary. She has...

Rev. Bruce Gillette is associate parish pastor at First Presbyterian Union Church in Owego, NY. (Source: owegofpuc.org)

Fr. Larry Gillick is a Jesuit priest.

Luca Giordano (1634-1705) was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. (Source and image: wikipedia.org)

Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco (1477-78-1510), also known as Giorgione, was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance. He is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are firmly attributed to him. The uncertainty surrounding the identity and meaning of his work has made Giorgione...

Giotto Di Bondone (c. 1267-1337) was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. Giotto's contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature" and...

Iacopo Negretti (1548/50-1628), best known as Palma Giovane ("Young Palma"), was an Italian painter from Venice and a notable exponent of the Venetian school. (Source and image: wikipedia.org)

René Girard (1923-2015) was a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of philosophical anthropology. Girard was the author of nearly thirty books, with his writings spanning many academic domains. Girard's main contribution to philosophy, and in turn to other disciplines, was in the psychology of desire. Girard claimed...