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Rev. Alex Joyner became the lead pastor of Charlottesville First United Methodist Church on July 1, 2021. He is a graduate of University of Virginia, and served as the United Methodist campus minister at UVA for seven years. Rev. Joyner has held ministry assignments from Texas to England and has...

Rev. Ashleigh Joyner currently serves in ministry with the United Methodist Church in North Texas.

Dr. Donald Harrisville Juel (1942-2003) was an American educator and New Testament scholar. He graduated from St. Olaf College, Luther Seminary, and Yale University. He served as pastor of several Lutheran congregations and taught at Indiana University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and for seventeen years, at Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary before returning to Princeton Seminary...

Julian of Norwich (c. 1343-c. 1416), also known as Juliana of Norwich, the Lady Julian, Dame Julian or Mother Julian, was an English anchoress of the Middle Ages. Her writings, now known as "Revelations of Divine Love," are the earliest surviving English-language works attributed to a woman. They are also the only surviving English-language works by an anchoress. (Source and image:...

Dr. Alexander Jun is Research Professor of Korean American Ministry and Church Leadership Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary and director of the Korean American Ministries Initiative through Fuller's Asian American Center. He is a graduate of University of Southern California and California State University. Dr. Jun has spent the last...

Dr. Nyasha Junior is an associate professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary, and her research interests include the connections between religion, race, and gender within the Hebrew Bible. She is the author of three books. (Source and...

Dr. Jennifer Kaalund is an independent scholar who lectures around the world on the topic of Christian scriptures, African American hermeneutics, and contextual biblical hermeneutics. She was previously an Associate Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (PTS), where she was the first African American woman in the seminary's...

Rev. Dr. Frederik Hermanus Kaan (1929–2009) was a Dutch-born United Reformed Church minister and prolific hymnwriter whose texts were translated into more than fifteen languages. In retirement he was named a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada (2001) and received the Chancellor's Gold Medal from Potchefstroom...

Leah Kabira is the minister of digital ministry at South Broadway Christian Church in Denver, CO, and a frequent contributor to Together in Worship. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Chicago Theological Seminary. (Source: southbroadway.org; gleannetwork.org)

Fr. Matthew Kaderabek, LC, is the PreK-8th Grade Chaplain at Pinecrest Academy in Cumming, GA. Upon completing his Mechanical Engineering degree at The University of Michigan in 1988, Fr. Matthew went active duty in the US Army Corps of Engineers. Fr. Matthew definitively hung up his camouflage uniform and donned...