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Simeon Solomon (1840-1905) was a British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. (Source and photo: wikipedia.org)

Dr. Elna K. Solvang is Chair and Professor of Religion at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. Her publications have focused on royal women, including "A Woman's Place is in the House: Royal Women of Judah and their Involvement in the House of David" (Sheffield Press, 2003), entries in the New...

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature." His non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted...

Rev. Dr. James Green Somerville is pastor of Richmond's First Baptist Church, a position he has held since May 2008. Before that he served for eight years as Pastor of the First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, D.C. He graduated from Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY and Georgetown...

Rev. Dr. Katherine Sonderegger is an affiliated faculty member at Virginia Theological Seminary, where she teaches seminarians in the theological tradition. She holds a Ph.D. from Brown University, an M.Div. and STM from Yale Divinity School, and an A.B. in Medieval Studies from Smith College. Ordained in the Episcopal Church...

Sophrony the Athonite (1896-1993), born Sergei Symeonovich Sakharov and also known also as Elder Sophrony or Father Sophrony, was a Russian-born Orthodox Christian archimandrite and one of the most noted ascetic monks of the 20th century. He is best known as the disciple and biographer of Silouan the Athonite and compiler of his works in the classic book Saint Silouan the Athonite, and also...

Rev. Susan Sparks is the Senior Pastor of Madison Avenue Baptist Church in New York City. She was formerly a trial lawyer turned standup comedian. She graduated from University of North Carolina, Wake Forest University, and Union Theological Seminary. Her work with humor, healing, and spirituality has been featured in O...

Matthew Spear serves in youth ministry in the Church of the Nazarene.