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Rev. Dr. Sam Hamstra, Jr. serves as an Executive Search Consultant with the Rukes Group, and has been a full-time pastor search and church staffing consultant since 2012 as the Founder and President of ChapterNext, a pastoral search firm. He was prepared for this work by nearly forty years of service to...

Dr. Jin H. Han teaches in the areas of biblical studies, and his major research interests include reception history, cognitive linguistics, performance criticism, cultural studies, and philology in ancient Near Eastern languages and literature. He is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, and the author of "Blackwell Bible Commentary on...

Dr. Lisa Hancock, Director of Worship Arts Ministries, served as an organist and music minister in United Methodist congregations in the Northwest Texas and North Texas Annual Conferences, as well as the New Day Amani/Upendo house churches in Dallas. After receiving her Master of Sacred Music and Master of Theological...

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (1685-1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his training in Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712, where he spent the bulk of his career and became a naturalised British subject in 1727. He was strongly influenced both by the middle-German polyphonic choral...

Rev. Dr. Shauna Hannan is the president of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, IL. She was formerly Professor of Homiletics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (of California Lutheran University) and Core Doctoral Faculty of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, CA. She is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, Luther...

Rev. Dr. Mark S. Hanson previously served as presiding bishop of the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Before being elected presiding bishop, he served as bishop of the Saint Paul Area Synod (3H). He has also served as pastor of three Minnesota congregations: Prince of Glory...

Rev. Joanna Harader serves as pastor of Bethel College Mennonite Church in North Newton, KS. Prior to arriving at Bethel College Mennonite Church, she served as pastor of Peace Mennonite Church in Lawrence, Kansas, for 18 years. She grew up in the American Baptist tradition, the child of two pastors....

Dr. Laura Robinson Harbert is a clinical psychologist, spiritual director, and an ordained Presbyterian minister. She is the former Dean of Chapel and Spiritual Formation at Fuller Seminary and is currently an Affiliate Professor of Clinical Psychology at Fuller Seminary. She has a private practice in Pasadena and volunteers one...

Harry Harder is a frequent contributor to Together in Worship.