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Fr. John P. Cush is a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, and the Editor-in-Chief of Homiletic and Pastoral Review. Fr. Cush serves as a full-time Professor of Dogmatic and Fundamental Theology, Director of Seminarian Admissions and Recruitment, and Formation Advisor at Saint Joseph's Seminary and College in New York. Before...

Carolyn Custis James is an award winning author who thinks deeply about what it means to be a female follower of Jesus in a postmodern world. She is the author of eight books, and blogs at her eponymous site, as a Leading Voice for Missio Alliance, and at Huffington Post/Religion. Her speaking and writing ministry...

Rev. Katy Cuthill Steinberg is the lead pastor at Beach Street First Presbyterian Church in Daytona Beach, FL. She is a Central Florida Presbytery pastor whose work has spanned traditional congregations, hospice chaplaincy, and innovative ministry settings throughout Volusia County since 2009. She holds a bachelor's degree in Business with minors...

Cyprian (210-258) was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer of Berber descent, many of whose Latin works are extant. He is recognized as a saint in the Western and Eastern churches. He was born around the beginning of the 3rd century in North Africa, perhaps at Carthage, where he received a classical education. Soon after converting to Christianity, he became a...

Cyril of Alexandria (376–444) was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444. Cyril wrote extensively and was a major player in the Christological controversies of the late-fourth and fifth centuries. He was a central figure in the Council of Ephesus in 431, which led to the deposition of Nestorius...

Pamela Czarnota is an ELCA Associate in Ministry, focusing in Spiritual Direction and Formation. She also has served on the Ohio Multi-Synod Candidacy Committee and currently is a member of the Northeastern Ohio Synod Congregational Resource Team. As a team member, she works with congregations to learn about Bowen Family Systems...

Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio is a historical theologian with an MA and PhD from the Catholic University of America, where he studied under Avery Cardinal Dulles. He has taught at Loyola College Maryland, the University of Dallas, and now the International Catholic University, offering graduate-level courses in theology, sacraments, liturgy, and...

Vitale da Bologna (c.1309–1360), also known as Vitale di Aymo de' Cavalli or Vitale degli Equi, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.

Alessandro Bonvicino (also Buonvicino) (c. 1498 -1554), more commonly known as Moretto, or in Italian Il Moretto da Brescia (the Moor of Brescia), was an Italian Renaissance painter from Brescia, where he also mostly worked. His dated works span the period from 1524 to 1554, but he was already described as a master in 1516. He was mainly a...

Giovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano (c. 1459-c. 1517), was an Italian Renaissance painter who mostly worked in Venice. (Source: wikipedia.org)