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Archimandrite George Kapsanis (1935-2014) was Abbott of the Holy Monastery of St. Gregorios on Mount Athos, Greece. (Source: firstthoughtsofgod.com)

Dr. Henry C. Antony Karlson III has taught at both Georgetown University and the Catholic University of America. Before establishing  A Little Bit Of Nothing, his own blog on Patheos, he used to be one of many writers on Vox Nova. He has also had articles published or republished on other sites...

Mary Karr is an award-winning poet, essayist, songwriter, and memoirist from East Texas, as well as the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University. Karr is also a songwriter, having collaborated with Rodney Crowell, Norah Jones, Lucinda Williams and others on a country album called KIN. She is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The Atlantic,...

Dr. Layla Karst is an assistant professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University, where she teaches and writes at the intersection of liturgy and ecclesiology, with a focus in lay liturgical ministries and participation. Her current research explores lay-led liturgies during the recent pandemic and theology and practice...

Najla Kassab Abousawan, president of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), is an ordained minister in the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon (NESSL). She obtained her B.A. in Christian education from the Near East School of Theology (NEST) in 1987 and her Masters of Divinity from Princeton...

Rev. Jes Kast is the pastor of Faith United Church of Christ in State College, PA. She is a graduate of Western Theological Seminary. (Source and photo: revjeskast.com)

Katerina Katsarka Whitley was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, where her early life was marked by military occupation and the death of her mother related to the war. She learned English in school and eventually made her way to North Carolina where she studied poetry and began her writing career. "Katerina...

Bob Kauflin serves as the Director of Sovereign Grace Music. After receiving a piano performance degree from Temple University in 1976, Bob traveled for eight years with the contemporary Christian group GLAD as a songwriter, speaker, and arranger. He continued to write and arrange for the group until 2010, and...

Fr. John F. Kavanaugh, SJ (d. 2012) was an esteemed scholar and beloved professor of philosophy and medical ethics at St. Louis University for 36 years (as well as a parish priest, social activist, musician and America columnist). His seminal book, Following Christ in a Consumer Society, published by Orbis Books...

Dr. M. Cathleen Kaveny serves as the Darald and Juliet Libby Millennium Professor at Boston College, a position that includes appointments in both the Theology Department and the Law School. She focuses on the relationship of law, religion, and morality, and regularly teaches contract law to first-year law students. She...