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Rev. Motoe Yamada Foor is the Director of Adult Discipleship at Discipleship Ministries. She previously served as the Senior Pastor at Sacramento Japanese United Methodist Church in Sacramento, CA. She graduated from University of Toledo, Michigan State University, and Pacific School of Religion/Graduate Theological Union. Foor has a wealth of...

Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes Jr. is Senior Minister Emeritus of The Riverside Church in New York City, where he became the first African American to lead the prominent interdenominational congregation, serving for 18 years. He earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Howard University, a Master of Divinity from Union...

Bruce Ford is a musician and compiler of "The American Gradual," which is a comprehensive adaptation of the Roman Mass Proper to contemporary English words. (Source: americangradual.org)

Leighton Ford is widely known as preacher, speaker, and author, having spoken to large crowds in forty countries, alternated with Billy Graham on the weekly broadcast of the Hour of Decision, created a daily inspirational TV feature, and published a dozen books. (Source and photo: leightonford.art)

Zach Ford is an epic fantasy novelist who has stumbled into a second calling as a modern psalmist and liturgy writer. In between making stories about dragons and magic, they aim to create original, lyrical prayers expressing the full range of their emotions and their relationship with God. (Source: worshipwords.co.uk)

Matt Forster is a freelance writer and editor from Clarkston, MI. (Source: christianhistoryinstitute.org)

Wayne Forte is a Filipino-American artist, and studied at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Irvine (B.A. 1973; M.F.A. 1976). Wayne lives with his wife and four children in Laguna Niguel, CA and attends Capo Beach Church, San Juan Capistrano, CA. Wayne has been a member of CIVA...

Annette Fortt is a fine artist and printmaker based in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. She graduated from Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis) in 1966 and began an art teaching career. She later earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute in 1983. Annette's work has...

Venantius Fortunatus (c.540-c. 600) was a poet and bishop of Poitiers, France, whose Latin poems and hymns combine echoes of classical Latin poets with a medieval tone, making him an important transitional figure between the ancient and medieval periods. (Source: britannica.com)

Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) was an American pastor. Fosdick became a central figure in the Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th century. Although a Baptist, he was called to serve as pastor, in...