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Rev. Mindi Welton-Mitchell is the Regional Executive Minister for the American Baptist Churches of Wisconsin. A fifth-generation American Baptist Minister, she was born in Oregon and was raised in Alaska. She is a graduate of Linfield University, Andover Newton Theological School, and was ordained in 2003 at First Baptist Church...

Dr. Kristin Wendland is an Associate Professor of Religion at Wartburg College, a Hebrew Bible scholar, and an ELCA pastor whose teaching ranges from biblical literature to Hebrew language. She holds degrees from Wartburg College, Luther Seminary, and Princeton Theological Seminary, and previously pastored congregations in Wisconsin. Her work includes...

Sr. Honora Werner is a member of the Dominican Sisters, and has been an itinerant preacher for years, doing retreats, parish missions, and other pulpit preaching. She teaches preaching to deacon candidates and lay pastoral ministry students. She serves her congregation as a member of their leadership team, and has...

John Wesley (1703-1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day. (Source and photo: Wikipedia)

Charles Wesley (1707-1788) was an English leader of the Methodist movement. Wesley was a prolific hymnwriter who wrote over 6,500 hymns during his lifetime. His works include "And Can It Be", "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today", the carol "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", and "Lo! He Comes With Clouds...

Frank Wesley (1923-2002) was an internationally recognized Indian-Australian artist. He was born into a fifth-generation Christian family of Hindu and Muslim descent., and studied painting at the Lucknow School of Arts and Crafts.[ He continued on to postgraduate studies at the same college, and worked as faculty, also spending five...

Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810–1876) was a prominent English organist and church composer, grandson of Charles Wesley, and long known as S.S. Wesley to distinguish him from his father. After early training in the Chapel Royal, he served as organist at several major cathedrals—including Hereford, Exeter, Winchester, and Gloucester—while also teaching...

Rev. Bill Wessner is the pastor at Cross and Crown Lutheran Church in Rohnert Park, CA. (Source and photo: crossandcrownrp.org)

Dr. Audrey West is visiting associate professor of New Testament at Moravian Theological Seminary, and project administrator of Moravian Clergy Connections. She has served on the tenured faculty at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and, more recently, as a visiting professor at Luther Seminary and Yale Divinity School....

Benjamin West (1738-1820) was a British-American artist who painted famous historical scenes such as The Death of Nelson, The Death of General Wolfe, the Treaty of Paris, and Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky. Entirely self-taught, West soon gained valuable patronage and toured Europe, eventually settling in London. He...