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Paul Borthwick serves on the staff of Development Associates International, a training group dedicated to the character and ministry development of leaders in the under-resourced world. In 2015, Paul retired from thirty years of teaching at Gordon College in the area of Global Christianity. He also served as an Urbana/Missions Associate with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship from...

Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was a Dutch/Netherlandish painter from Brabant. He is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work, generally oil on oak wood, mainly contains fantastic illustrations of religious concepts and narratives. (Source and photo: Wikipedia)

Rev. Dr. Carl Bosma served as a church planter and leadership developer with Christian Reformed World Missions, Professor of Biblical studies at Seminario Presbiteriano do Sul, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Associate Professor of Old Testament at Calvin Theological Seminary. He retired in 2014. He graduated from Calvin Theological Seminary, and...

Rev Jazzy Bostock serves as pastor for two congregations on the west side of Oahu, one Episcopal and one Lutheran. She graduated from American University and Yale Divinity School. (Source: maluhialutheran.weebly.com)

Dr. Matt Boswell is the lead pastor of The Trails Church in Celine, TX. He also serves as a Professor of Worship Ministries at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, MO teaching in the area of corporate worship, hymnology, and liturgical history. (Source and photo: thetrails.org)

Rev. Dr. Richard Bott pastors at Grace United Church in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, a congregation of the United Church of Canada. He also served as the forty-third Moderator of that church from 2018 to 2022. He is a graduate of University of Ottawa, Queen's University, and Ashland Theological Seminary, and has also obtained a diploma...

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445–1510), known as Sandro Botticelli or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late nineteenth century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work. Since then, his paintings have been seen to represent the linear...

Timothy R. Botts is a master calligrapher who studied graphic design and calligraphy at Carnegie-Mellon University. After spending three years in Japan, he began a forty-year career at Tyndale House Publishers designing books and Bibles, retiring as senior art director in 2012. Tim helped start Masterpiece Project, an outreach to...

Samuel Bottschild (1641-1706) was a German painter and printmaker. (Source: British Museum; photo: de.wikipedia.org)