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Ross Ringenberg (1983-2016) was an elder, Sunday school teacher, and promoter of the stewardship of creation at the Prairie Street Mennonite Church in Elkhart, IN. (Source: johnmbender.com)

Dr. Joan Ringerwole is professor emeritus of music at Sioux Center, IA, and a member of the Liturgical Committee of the Christian Reformed Church.

Beat Rink is an ordained pastor of the Swiss Reformed Church and the co-founder of Crescendo (rescendo.org) and Arts+ (artsplus.ch). He works as a full-time leader of Crescendo international. He is a graduate of the University of Basel, Switzerland, gives lectures, and has written four books. (Source: artway.eu; beatrink.ch)

Jennifer Ristine is a consecrated woman of Regnum Christi, a Society of Apostolic Life in the Catholic Church. She consecrated her life to God in 1997 and is currently stationed in the DC area, engaged in faith and spiritual formation primarily through teaching, writing, conferences, retreats, and spiritual direction. She...

Kathryn (Katie) Ritsema-Roelofs is the program director for Worship for Workers and a commissioned pastor in the Christian Reformed Church. She has been involved in worship ministry for the past fifteen years. She previously served as the Minister of Music and Worship at the Washington, DC Christian Reformed Church and...

Diego Rivera (1886–1957) was a Mexican painter whose large-scale murals helped define Mexican muralism and influenced international art. Educated at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City and in Europe, he was associated with Cubism and Post-Impressionism before developing his own style characterized by bold colors, simplified figures, and...

Briton Rivière (1840–1920) was a British painter of Huguenot descent, best known for his animal paintings, though he also exhibited historical and literary subjects at the Royal Academy. Trained primarily by his father, William Rivière, he studied at Cheltenham College and Oxford, earning a degree in 1867. Rivière began exhibiting...

Rev. Daniel Robayo is an ordained minister in the Episcopal Church.

Dr. Mark D. Roberts is a Senior Strategist for Fuller's Max De Pree Center for Leadership, where he focuses on the spiritual development and thriving of leaders. He is the principal writer of the daily devotional Life for Leaders and the founder of the De Pree Center's Flourishing in the...

Fr. Benjamin Roberts is a priest of the Diocese of Charlotte, NC and pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Monroe, NC. He is a graduate of D'Youville College (now University), St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, and the Aquinas Institute of Theology. He has done additional studies in ecumenism and...