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Seamus Justin Heaney (1939-2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world." (Source: wikipedia.org)

Rev. Dr. Adam Hearlson is the senior pastor of Overbrook Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, PA, and the author of "The Holy No: Worship as a Subversive Act" (Eerdmans, 1018). He is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and Vanguard University. He previously served as Interim Associate of Education, Fellowship, &...

Dr. Holly Hearon is T.J. and Virginia Liggett Professor of Christian Traditions and New Testament at Christian Theological Seminary. She is a graduate of Graduate Theological Union, Union Presbyterian Seminary, and Wellesley College, and is also a minister of word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA). She regularly contributes to the Working...

Heart of the City is a multi-ethnic ministry which has, since 1996, been bringing a message, model and experience of multi-ethnic worship and Biblical unity to thousands of people through the live performances and many recordings of the multi-ethnic, multi-denominational and multi-generational Heart of the City Worship Band, founded by Dan Adler....

Rev. Dr. Emily Carrington Heath is a United Church of Christ minister currently serving as Pastor of the Congregational Church in Exeter, NH, and a writer and public theologian. Heath's work has been heavily featured in Christian Century, the Huffington Post's religion section, the Still Speaking Writers' Group's Daily Devotions,...

Rev. Dr. Elaine A. Heath is Abbess of Spring Forest, a new monastic mission community in the United Methodist tradition. Her vocational journey includes having served as Dean of the Divinity School at Duke University, and the McCreless Professor of Evangelism at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Much of...

Dr. Jane Heath is currently a faculty member at Durham University's theology department. Her most recent book, Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste (Oxford University Press, 2024), examines Clement's theology of Christian formation in dialogue with modern aesthetics. This followed Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary...