Resource Authors

Dr. Paul Neeley is the curator of global worship resources at Global Christian Worship and a former instructor at the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies.

Brent D. Neely was ordained as an elder in the Church of the Nazarene in 2018. He is a graduate of Eastern Nazarene College and Nazarene Theological Seminary. He has pastored churches in Maine, Kansas, Minnesota, and Missouri, and is a monastic in the House of Initia Nova, a dispersed...

Dr. David Neff currently serves as the director of music at the Church of The Nativity and Holy Comforter in Baltimore, MD. He took his first appointment as a church organist at age sixteen. He is a graduate of Loma Linda University and Andrews University, later pastoring several churches in...

Rev. Marc Nelesen is a pastor in the Christian Reformed Church in North America, and a frequent contributor to Reformed Worship, The Banner, and other publications.

Rev. Jeffrey A. Nelson serves as Minister for Ministerial Calls and Transitions on the national staff of the United Church of Christ, and as pastor of St. Michael's United Church of Christ in Marshallville, OH. Before that, he was a local church pastor for over 15 years in several places around...

Rev. Tom Nelson is the Lead Pastor Coach of Christ Community Church in Kansas City, MO, after founding the church over 30 years ago. He also serves as president of Made to Flourish, a network that seeks to empower pastors to lead churches that produce human flourishing for the common...

Augustus Nelson (1863-1949) graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN, and did graduate work in philosophy and history at Yale University and at Augustana Theological Seminary, Rock Island, IL. During his ministry he served parishes in Michigan, Illinois, Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. (Source: hymnary.org)

Dr. Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of more than 20 books and chapbooks for adults and children. Her critically acclaimed books for young adults include A Wreath for Emmett Till and the ground breaking Carver: A Life in Poems, a Newbery Honor Book. Of Marilyn's nine poetry collections for adults, The Homeplace won the 1992 Annisfield-Wolf Award;...