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Dan Roloff, known as "Ramblin' Dan," was a central figure at Laity Lodge and the H. E. Butt Foundation Camp from the 1980s until his retirement in 2018. Beginning as a participant in 1982, he became Associate Director after persistent efforts and contributed extensively to program innovation, mentoring, and outdoor...

Dr. James Romaine is Professor of Art History at Lander University in Greenwood, SC. He was previously an Associate Professor of art history at Nyack College and the president of the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art (ASCHA). He is a graduate of Wheaton College, University...

Giulio Romano (c. 1499-1546), also known as Giulio Pippi and Jules Romain, was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect. He was a pupil of Raphael, and his stylistic deviations from High Renaissance classicism help define the sixteenth-century style known as Mannerism. (Source and image: wikipedia.org)

Fr. Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (1917-1980) was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, the Titular Bishop of Tambeae, as Bishop of Santiago de María, and as the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. As archbishop, Romero spoke out against social injustice and...

Rev. Dr. Robert Chao Romero is an ordained minister, community organizer, and professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, Berkeley. Romero has published more than 30 academic books and articles on issues of...

Linda Roorda is a mother and grandmother, retired hospital medical/radiology transcriptionist, retired worship music leader, member of The Dry Bones band, an empty-nest author, past speaker at a multi-church women's retreat, now substitute teacher in local school system. She published some of her ancestral genealogy research in the "New York...

Rev. Kara K. Root is the author of The Deepest Belonging (2021), Receiving This Life: (2023), and A Pilgrimage Into Letting Go (2025, with husband, Andy). ​Pastor of Lake Nokomis Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis, MN, a Christian community that shapes its life around worship, hospitality and Sabbath rest, she is a trained Spiritual Director and Certified Educator in the PCUSA. 
She has...

Andrew Root, PhD (Princeton Theological Seminary) is the Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary. He is most recently the author of Evangelism in an Age of Despair and the six volume Ministry in a Secular Age series (including Churches and the Crisis of Decline, The Congregation in a...