Resource Authors

Howard D. Vanderwell (1937-2018) was the Resource Development Specialist of Pastoral Leadership for the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, the author and editor of The Church of All Ages and Caring Worship: Helping Worship Leaders Provide Pastoral Care through the Liturgy, and co-author of Designing Worship Together. (Source: reformedworship.org; photo:...

Hanna Cheriyan Varghese (7 Apr 1938 – 12 June 2009) was a Malaysian Christian artist.  She started her career as an art and English teacher. She was also a wife, mother and grandmother. Hanna worked with different medium like oil colours, metal-tooling and wood-block printing. Her passion was painting with Acrylic...

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects." (Source: wikipedia.org)

Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) was a Welsh metaphysical poet, author and translator writing in English, and a medical physician. (Source: wikipedia.org)

Ellen Vaughn is a New York Times bestselling author and speaker who has written or co-written twenty-four books. As former vice president of executive communications at Prison Fellowship, she collaborated with the late Chuck Colson on a number of his seminal works. She speaks at conferences, often travels to interview Christ-followers in...

Palma Vecchio (c. 1480-1528), also known as Jacopo Negretti, was a Venetian painter of the Italian High Renaissance. He is called Palma Vecchio in English and Palma il Vecchio in Italian ("Palma the Elder") to distinguish him from Palma il Giovane ("Palma the Younger"), his great-nephew, who was also a painter. (Source: wikipedia.org)

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (c. 1599-1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He is generally considered one of the greatest artists in the history of Western art. He painted scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family and commoners, culminating in...

Carol Veldman Rudie is an instructor in the School of Continuing Education at the University of Wisconsin, Milkwaukee. She was previously the coordinator of outreach education at the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis, MN, where she used her college teaching skills to research and present Russian art and culture. She has...