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Kari Jobe has served for nearly two decades as a worship leader. (Source: karijobe.com; photo: mcalesternews.com)

Dr. Sarah Jobe is a scholar and minister working at the intersection of prisons, practical theology, and biblical studies, serving as an Consulting Faculty and Co-Director of Prison Studies Program at Duke Divinity School. Her work draws on theology, Black feminist theory, trauma studies, and ethnography to examine how theological...

Dr. Karen Jobes is Professor Emerita of New Testament Greek and Greek Exegesis, known for her scholarship on the Septuagint and its relation to New Testament interpretation. She graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary, Rutgers University, and Trenton State College. Her academic work centers on Greek exegesis, early Christian use of the...

St. John of Damascus or John Damascene (c.675-749), born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, was an Arab Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist. He is one of the Fathers of the Eastern Orthodox Church and is best known for his strong defense of icons. (Source and image: wikipedia.org)

John of Kronstadt, born John Iliytch Sergieff (1829-1909) was a Russian Orthodox archpriest and a member of the Most Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was known for his mass confessions, numerous miracles, and charitable work, as well as his monarchistic and anti-communist views. He is a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and is known with the epithet "Righteous." (Source: wikipedia.org)

St. John of the Cross OCD (1542-1591) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest, Christian mystic, and Carmelite friar of Converso ancestry. He is a major figure of the Counter-Reformation in Spain, and is known for his writings. He was mentored by and corresponded with the older Carmelite nun Teresa of Ávila. Both his poetry and his studies on the development of the soul, particularly...

Elisabeth Johnson is an ELCA pastor and missionary serving in Cameroon as a professor at the Lutheran Institute of Theology in Meiganga. She earned a Ph.D. in New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary and has served as an adjunct professor for Luther Seminary (2003-04 and 2007-08). She is the author...

Rev. Trygve (pronounced: "trig-vee") Johnson is a pastor, theologian, writer, and preacher. He currently serves as the inaugural Executive Director of the PreachFor Foundation, and previously served as the Hinga-Boersma Dean of the Chapel at Hope College in Holland, MI. Trygve is ordained in the Reformed Church in America (RCA), preaches and...

Jeff Johnson is a recording artist, composer and producer who has released numerous solo and collaborative recordings. His early work was vocal progressive-rock, but his sound has since evolved to jazz, new-age, instrumental, contemplative and Celtic styles. He has collaborated with other established musicians, including Sandy Simpson, Brian Dunning, and...

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was an American writer and civil rights activist. He was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novel and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of...