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Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was an American horticulturist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. As an energetic reformer during the Progressive Era, he was instrumental in starting agricultural extension services, the 4-H movement, the nature study movement, parcel post and rural electrification. He was considered the father of rural sociology and rural journalism. (Source: wikipedia.org)

Rev. Joanne Caladine Bailey Wells is a British Anglican bishop, theologian, and academic. Since January 2023, she has served at the Anglican Communion Office in London as Bishop for Episcopal Ministry and Deputy Secretary General. She completed her studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and University of Minnesota. While in the United States, she was a youth pastor at...

Fr. Joseph Bailham is the parish priest and rector of Our Lady of the Rosary and Saint Dominic (The Rosary Shrine), London. (Source: english.op.org)

John Baillie (1886-1960) was a Scottish theologian, a Church of Scotland minister, and brother of theologian Donald Macpherson Baillie. Baillie studied divinity at Edinburgh University. After graduating he undertook further studies at both Jena and Marburg in Germany, and taught in Canada and the United States. He gained a D.Litt. on the theory of religion from Edinburgh University, and was...

Edith Bajema is a freelance writer and editor and a member of Oakdale Park Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, MI.

Peter Bakelaar is a Rhode Island School of Design graduate with a BFA in Illustration who began his career as a graphic designer in advertising. Since moving to Japan in 1990 with Mission to the World, he has combined his artistic background with community engagement, founding two art venues—Studio Tsunagaru...

Rev. Kenneth Baker retired from full-time pastoral ministry in 2018 after serving four churches in Canada and the U.S. He now serves as a Gallup Strengths Coach, mentor, and itinerant preacher. (Source: reformedworship.org)

Jill Baker studied theology at Durham University. After marrying Andrew Baker, they spent eight years in the South Caribbean as Methodist mission partners. On returning to the UK in 2001, Jill trained as a Methodist Local Preacher, and later went on to become both circuit and district tutor for Local...

Jonny Baker is the Britain Hub mission director for Church Mission Society. (Source and photo: churchmissionsociety.org)

Rev. Henry Williams Baker (1821-1877) was an Anglican priest and hymn writer. He was educated at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. After taking Holy Orders in 1844, he became, in 1851, Vicar of Monkland, Herefordshire, which he held to his death. Baker's name is intimately associated with hymnody. One of...