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Sr. Dianne Bergant, a Sister of St. Agnes of Fond du Lac, WI, served on the faculty at Catholic Theological Union from 1978 to 2023.  She served as President of Catholic Biblical Association of America (2000-2001) and as the Rev. Robert J. Randall Distinguished Professor of Christian Culture, Providence College, Providence,...

Dr. Paul Berge is professor emeritus of New Testament at Luther Seminary, where he taught from 1973 to 2002. Ordained in 1964, he was a pastor of Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Montevideo, MN, before becoming a United States Air Force chaplain in 1966-70. He was active on two ecumenical...

David Bergen is a Canadian novelist. He has published eleven novels and two collections of short stories since 1993 and is currently based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His 2005 novel The Time in Between won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and he was a finalist again in 2010 (for The Matter With Morris) and 2020 (for Here the Dark), making the long...

Elizabeth Berget is a speaker and the author of Love like a Mother: How the Sacred Work of Motherhood Reveals the Maternal Heart of God. She is a former English language-teacher, and has lived on three continents. Her work has appeared in Christianity Today, Coffee + Crumbs, Mothering Spirit, and other online spaces where...

Joel Bergner is an artist, educator and organizer of community art initiatives with youth in conflict-affected and marginalized communities around the world. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of the non-profit organization Artolution, helping to develop support for youth art programs in partnership with humanitarian agencies like UNICEF and the...

Ambrogio Bergognone (c. 1470-1523/1524) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in and near Milan. (Source: wikipedia.org)

Fr. Jeremy Bergstrom is an Episcopal priest and rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Lake Mary, FL since 2019, previously serving as Canon for Vocations in the Diocese of Dallas and Priest in Charge of St. Christopher's, Dallas, TX. He began his ordained ministry as an assistant at St. John's...

Rev. Roy Berkenbosch is a retired minister in the Christian Reformed Church and the founding director of the Micah Centre at The King's University College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He served World Renew, the Christian Reformed Church's world relief organization, in a variety of roles during his career. (Source: reformedworship.org)

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, and a major leader in the reform of the Benedictines through the nascent Cistercian Order. He was sent to found Clairvaux Abbey only a few years after becoming a monk at Cîteaux. In the year 1128, Bernard attended the Council of Troyes, at which he...

Martin Bernigeroth (1670-1733) was a German engraver who lived and worked in Leipzig. (Source and photo: de.wikipedia.org)