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James Richmond Barthé, also known as Richmond Barthé (1901-1989) was an African-American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Barthé is best known for his portrayal of black subjects. (Source: wikipedia.org)

Rev. Laura Jaquith Bartlett is the minister of Liturgical Arts at SE Portland Parish. (Source and photo: seportlandparish.org)

Dr. David Bartlett (1941- 2017) was the J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz Professor Emeritus of Christian Communication at Yale Divinity School, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, and an ordained minister of the American Baptist Churches, USA. He also served as the senior minister of congregations in Minnesota, Illinois,...

Fra Bartolomeo (1472-1517) was an Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects. He spent all his career in Florence until his mid-forties, when he travelled to work in various cities, as far south as Rome. In the 1490s, he fell under the influence of Savonarola, which led him to become a Dominican friar in 1500, and to renounce painting for...

Dr. Charles L. Bartow is Egner Professor of Speech Communication Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned a B.A. (1958) and M.A. (1964) from Michigan State University, a B.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary (1963), and a Ph.D. from New York University (1971). Professionally, he served as an assistant in speech at...

Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great (330-378), was an early Roman Christian prelate who served as Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia from 370 until his death in 378. He was an influential theologian who supported the Nicene Creed and opposed the heresies of the early Christian church,...

Dr. Dorothy C. Bass is a practical theologian, historian, mother, grandmother, and stepmother. During twenty-five years as director of the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith, a Lilly Endowment project supporting the renewal of Christian theology and life, she wrote, edited, or coedited more than a...

Jacopo Bassano (1510-1592), known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice. Trained in the workshop of his father, Francesco the Elder, and studying under Bonifazio Veronese in Venice, he painted mostly religious paintings including landscape and genre...

Leandro Bassano (1557-1622), also called Leandro dal Ponte, was an Italian artist from Bassano del Grappa, who was awarded a knighthood by the Doge of Venice. He was the younger brother of artist Francesco Bassano the Younger and third son of artist Jacopo Bassano. (Source: wikipedia.org)

David Bast is one of Groundwork's original, founding co-hosts, and retired from Groundwork in May 2021. He also served as the President and Broadcast Minister of Words of Hope for 23 years until he retired in January 2017. Prior to his ministry and work at Words of Hope, Dave served...