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Giotto Di Bondone (c. 1267-1337) was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. Giotto's contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature" and...

Iacopo Negretti (1548/50-1628), best known as Palma Giovane ("Young Palma"), was an Italian painter from Venice and a notable exponent of the Venetian school. (Source and image: wikipedia.org)

René Girard (1923-2015) was a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of philosophical anthropology. Girard was the author of nearly thirty books, with his writings spanning many academic domains. Girard's main contribution to philosophy, and in turn to other disciplines, was in the psychology of desire. Girard claimed...

Fr. John Giuliani (1932-2021) studied art at Pratt Institute in New York and later was ordained a Catholic priest. He taught Latin, the Humanities, and American Film at the Bridgeport, Connecticut Diocesan Seminary, at Fairfield University and Sacred Heart University. He then founded the Benedictine Grange, a small monastic community...

Dr. G. Tommy Givens serves as Associate Professor of New Testament Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he began teaching in 2010 and offers courses in both Spanish and English. He holds a ThD in Theological Ethics and New Testament from Duke University, an MA in New Testament from Talbot...

Rev. Dr. Katie Givens Kime is the president and executive producer of the Alliance for Christian Media (ACM), and the host of "Day1." She previously served ACM as grant writer, then director of the 4-year project funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.'s Compelling Preaching Initiative, then as Interim Executive Director...

Ola Gjeilo is a composer and pianist specializing in choral music, piano works, and wind symphony compositions. He studied classical composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music before transferring to the Juilliard School, and completing his bachelor's degree in composition at the Royal College of Music, London. He returned to...

Rev. Alecia C. Glaize is a United Methodist minister specializing in Christian education. A deacon in the Alabama-West Florida Conference of The United Methodist Church, Glaize has served as an instructor for the Alabama Course of Study for over twenty years and as the Baypines District Missioner. She graduated from Huntingdon...

Nate Glasper Jr. is Resource Development Specialist and Campus Worship Associate at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and serves as director of the Calvin University Gospel Choir. Nate brings many years of experience as a Gospel Music Educator, Recording Artist, Choir Director and Worship Pastor at Grace for the...