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P. Solomon Raj

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Rev. Dr. P. Solomon Raj (1921-2019) was a pastor of Protestant Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church Society, headquartered in Guntur, India. He is known as a teacher, pastor, administrator, professor and as an artist. He is a graduate of AELC-Andhra Christian College, Guntur, India; UELCI-Gurukul Lutheran Theological College, Chennai, India; Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; and Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, UK. As...

Updated 01/16/2025

Victor Raj

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Rev. Dr. Victor Raj is Professor Emeritus of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis, MO. At his retirement, he was the Buehner–Duesenberg Professor of Missions, professor of Exegetical Theology, and assistant director of the Seminary's Institute for Mission Studies. He graduated from Concordia Seminary, Gurukul Lutheran Theological...

Updated 03/18/2025

Mark Ralls

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Rev. Dr. Mark Ralls is a district superintendent in the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church. Before that, he was senior pastor of First United Methodist Church in Hendersonville, North Carolina; senior minister of Centenary United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and of Asbury First United...

Updated 10/28/2024

Elyse Ramirez

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Sr. Elyse Ramirez serves as the director of formation for the Collaborative Dominican Novitiate in Chicago, where she facilitated the spiritual and professional growth of five novices from three Dominican congregations. She was coordinator of religious vocation ministry for the Archdiocese of Chicago, 2007-2014. After her profession of vows in 1985...

Updated 09/22/2025

Melissa Ramos

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Dr. Melissa Ramos is an associate professor of Hebrew Bible at Portland Seminary, an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA), writer, and artist. Her research includes blessings and curses, ancient ritual and liturgical practices, covenant and biblical law, ancient Northwest Semitic inscriptions, and gender. She is the author of two...

Updated 10/02/2025

Christy Ramsey

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Rev. John "Christy" Ramsey currently serving as Stated Clerk/General Presbyter in the Presbytery of Nevada. He is a graduate of Grove City College and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He previously served as full-time pastor at First Presbyterian Church (now Community Presbyterian Church) in Rochester, IN and Ottawa Presbyterian Church in Ottawa, OH before transitioning...

Updated 12/19/2024

Gail Ramshaw

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Dr. Gail Ramshaw, a scholar of liturgical language and Professor Emerita of religion at La Salle University, has published books on the meaning of liturgical language and works on liturgical spirituality, as well as a number of children's books. She is a graduate of Valparaiso University, Sarah Lawrence College, the...

Updated 01/30/2025

Anne Rankowitz

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Anne Rankowitz is the Director of Curriculum Resource Center and Program Assistant in Christian Education at Union Presbyterian Seminary. She graduated from Northwestern University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Union Presbyterian Seminary. (Source: LinkedIn.com)

Updated 03/19/2025

Raphael

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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520), now generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and...

Updated 10/28/2024

Phillip Ratner

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Phillip Ratner (1937-2023) spent many years working in sculpture, painting, etched glass, tapestry, drawing, and the graphic arts. In 1984, Philtip Ratner opened The Israel Bible Museum in Safad, Israel. Since then, Ratner spent most of his time there developing over 250 works of art on the Bible in sculpture,...

Updated 10/28/2024