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Nabil Ince is a producer, artist, and educator based in the Midwest; he performs under the name Seaux Chill. He is currently a music resident with the Harrison Center for the Arts in Indianapolis, IN. He is a current leader/content contributor in the Common Hymnal ecosystem, and a nationally sought-after...

Dr. Monique Ingalls serves as Chair of the Academic and Professional Studies Department, holds the Ammann Chair in Church Music and Worship, and is Associate Professor of Music at Baylor University, where she joined the faculty in 2014. She holds a PhD in Anthropology of Music from the University of Pennsylvania...

Fr. Stephen Ingram is pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Richardson, TX. He was ordained in May 2018 and was previously assigned to Prince of Peace in Plano, where he served for 4 years. (Source and photo: josephcatholic.org)

Paul Inwood is an internationally known composer and workshop presenter. He graduated summa cum laude from the Royal Academy of Music in London, England Many of Paul's compositions, including "Center of My Life," were originally published in England by his imprint Magnificat Music, and re-published worldwide by OCP, starting with...

Simon Peter Iredale was born in the United Kingdom but spent his childhood in Australia. His most recent book is My Strength and My Song, a year's reflective study of the Psalms. He was ordained in the Church of England and served as a parish priest, a hospital and prison...

Irenaeus (c. 130- c. 202) was a Greek bishop noted for his role in guiding and expanding Christian communities in the southern regions of present-day France and, more widely, for the development of Christian theology by opposing Gnostic interpretations of Christian Scripture and defining proto-orthodoxy. Chosen as bishop of Lugdunum, now Lyon, his best-known work is Against Heresies, a refutation of gnosticism. Irenaeus is venerated as a saint in the Catholic...

Sharon Irving Cochran is a singer, songwriter, poet, voice over artist, worship leader, actress, and winner of the Golden Buzzer on Season 10 of America's Got Talent. She has performed in churches, stages, prisons, NFL events, and concert halls all over the world, and is the voice for Amway's We Believe...

Isḥaq of Nineveh (c. 613-c. 700), also remembered as Saint Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Nineveh, Abba Isaac, Isaac Syrus and Isaac of Qatar, was a seventh-century Syriac Christian bishop of the Church of the East. He is a theologian best remembered for his written works on Christian asceticism. He is regarded as a saint in the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Church and Church of the East traditions. His feast day falls, together with fourth-century theologian and hymnographer St. Ephrem...

Rev. Micah Isberner-Louwagie is pastor at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Fargo, ND. (Source and photo: grandforksherald.com)

Adriaen Isenbrandt or Adriaen Ysenbrandt (between 1480 and 1490-1551) was a painter in Bruges, in the final years of Early Netherlandish painting, and the first of the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting of the Northern Renaissance. (Source: wikipedia.org)