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Isaac Wardell is Director of Worship Arts at Restoration Anglican Church, Arlington, VA, and is also a record producer and composer who primarily writes sacred music. He is a graduate of Covenant College and The Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and is also the director of The Porter's Gate Worship...

Rev. Dr. Theodore J. Wardlaw is an American Presbyterian minister and the editor of the Journal for Preachers. He was president and professor of homilectics at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, TX until his retirement in 2022. He previously served as pastor of Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, GA; Setauket Presbyterian...

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware (1934-2022), born Timothy Richard Ware, was an English bishop and theologian of the Eastern Orthodox Church. From 1982, he held the titular bishopric of Diokleia in Phrygia (Greek: Διόκλεια Φρυγίας), later made a titular metropolitan bishopric in 2007, under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. He was one...

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is generally considered among the most important American artists of the second half of the 20th century. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s,...

 Steve Warner is the Director of Music at St. James Episcopal Church in Black Mountain, NC. He graduated from St. Michael's College in Burlington, VT, and the University of Notre Dame, where he joined the Campus Ministry staff in 1979. While there, he founded the Notre Dame Folk Choir, an internationally-renowned ensemble he...

Greg Warnusz is the author of the Lector's Notes, and has served as a Catholic chaplain at Saint Mary's Health Center in Saint Louis, MO. (Source and photo: lectorprep.org)

Rick Warren is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder of Saddleback Church, an evangelical Baptist megachurch in Lake Forest, California. Since 2022, he serves as executive director of the Finishing the Task mission coalition. He is a graduate of California Baptist University, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the author...

Rev. Tish Harrison Warren is a writer and an Anglican priest. She is the author of several books, including Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, which won Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year, and Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work, or Watch, or Weep, which won Christianity...