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Simon Peter Iredale was born in the United Kingdom but spent his childhood in Australia. His most recent book is My Strength and My Song, a year's reflective study of the Psalms. He was ordained in the Church of England and served as a parish priest, a hospital and prison...

Irenaeus (c. 130- c. 202) was a Greek bishop noted for his role in guiding and expanding Christian communities in the southern regions of present-day France and, more widely, for the development of Christian theology by opposing Gnostic interpretations of Christian Scripture and defining proto-orthodoxy. Chosen as bishop of Lugdunum, now Lyon, his best-known work is Against Heresies, a refutation of gnosticism. Irenaeus is venerated as a saint in the Catholic...

Sharon Irving Cochran is a singer, songwriter, poet, voice over artist, worship leader, actress, and winner of the Golden Buzzer on Season 10 of America's Got Talent. She has performed in churches, stages, prisons, NFL events, and concert halls all over the world, and is the voice for Amway's We Believe...

Isḥaq of Nineveh (c. 613-c. 700), also remembered as Saint Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Nineveh, Abba Isaac, Isaac Syrus and Isaac of Qatar, was a seventh-century Syriac Christian bishop of the Church of the East. He is a theologian best remembered for his written works on Christian asceticism. He is regarded as a saint in the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Church and Church of the East traditions. His feast day falls, together with fourth-century theologian and hymnographer St. Ephrem...

Rev. Micah Isberner-Louwagie is pastor at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Fargo, ND. (Source and photo: grandforksherald.com)

Adriaen Isenbrandt or Adriaen Ysenbrandt (between 1480 and 1490-1551) was a painter in Bruges, in the final years of Early Netherlandish painting, and the first of the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting of the Northern Renaissance. (Source: wikipedia.org)

Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806-1858) was a Russian painter who adhered to the waning tradition of Neoclassicism but found little sympathy with his contemporaries. He has been called the master of one work, for it took 20 years to complete his magnum opus The Appearance of Christ Before the People. (Source: wikipedia.org)

Caleb Iversen is Timothy Scholars Program Coordinator and Assistant to the Director of the Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Caleb is a PhD student at Southeastern Seminary, where he is pursuing studies in the field of preaching. (Source: pastorscenter.org)