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Rev. L.G. Parkhurst served as pastor of Stonegate Presbyterian Church in Edmond, OK before retiring from pulpit ministry in 2011. He retired in 2021 from writing the Bible lesson column the newspaper The Oklahoman. He graduated from University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, and Princeton Theological Seminary, and was ordained as...

Rev. Mason Parks is a pastor in the American Methodist Episcopal Church. (image: youtube.com/watch?v=kAAG2u8XHGg)

Nancy B. Parks is a contributor to Discipleship Ministries with The United Methodist Church.

Joseph Parry (1841–1903) was a Welsh composer, musician, and academic, best known for the hymn tune "Aberystwyth" and the song "Myfanwy." After emigrating to the United States as a child, he worked in ironworks while teaching himself music and composition. His early success in eisteddfod competitions led to formal musical...

Dr. Mikeal Parsons is the University Distinguished Professor and Kidd L. & Buna Hitchcock Macon Professor of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, TX. His research and teaching interests are in New Testament Gospels and Acts; ancient rhetoric and literary criticism. He is a graduate of Southern Seminary and Campbell University....

Rev. Dr. Michael Pasquarello III retired in 2024, after six years of teaching at Samford University's Beeson Divinity School. While at Beeson, he established the school's Robert Smith Jr. Preaching Institute in 2018, oversaw the Doctor of Ministry program, and served as the school's Methodist chair of divinity. Pasquarello taught...

Sr. Louis Mary Passeri (1932-2025), a Dominican Sister of Peace, ministered as an educator in Ohio and Pennsylvania schools for more than 50 years, and was a Religious Education Director in Lancaster, OH and a principal in Zanesville and Columbus. She served as a Spiritual Director for many years and...

Joachim Patinir, also called Patenier (c. 1480-1524), was a Flemish Renaissance painter of history and landscape subjects. He worked in Antwerp, then the center of the art market in the Low Countries. Patinir was a pioneer of landscape as an independent genre, and the first Netherlandish painter to regard himself primarily as a landscape painter. He effectively invented the world landscape, a...

Mimi Patrick is a frequent contributor to MInistryToChildren.

Rev. Dr. Rod Pattenden is an artist, art historian, and educational facilitator interested in the connection between spirituality and the arts. He has written and lectured widely on these aspects of the arts and creativity in Australia and overseas. Rod has a B.A. Visual Arts (arts practice), M.Phil. (art history),...