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Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot (1888-1965) was an American-born poet, essayist and playwright who spent his adult life in England. He was a leading figure in English-language Modernist poetry, where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language, writing style, and verse structure. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often re-evaluated long-held cultural beliefs. Eliot...

Ephrem the Syrian (306-373), also known as Saint Ephrem, Saint Ephraim, Ephrem of Edessa or Aprem of Nisibis, was a prominent Christian theologian and writer who is revered as one of the most notable hymnographers of Eastern Christianity. He wrote a wide variety of hymns, poems, and sermons in verse, as well as prose exegesis. These were works of practical theology for the...

Rev. Dr. James Ellis III currently serves as pastor of Maplewood Reformed Church in Holland, MI, and as associate professor of practical theology at Winebrenner Theological Seminary in Findlay, OH. He is an ordained pastor in the Baptist tradition, and has served in the US and Canada. He graduated from...

Fr. Leo Edgar is an assistant priest at St Dominic's, London. (Source and photo: english.op.org)

Dr. Richard Einerson is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Since an early retirement from hospital chaplaincy, Dr. Einerson has served as an Interim Pastor at the Community Church in Walker, MN; as a Pastoral Associate at the Palm Desert Community Presbyterian Church in Palm Desert, CA;...

Fr. Benjamin Earl is Procurator General of the Order of Preachers, responsible for representing the Order to the Holy See and for canonical issues in the Order's General Curia. (Source and photo: english.op.org)

Rev. Dr. Dennis R. Edwards serves as Dean and Vice President of Church Relations at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, after having previously been Associate Professor of New Testament. An author and sought-after speaker at conferences and universities, Edwards has served as a church planter in Brooklyn and Washington,...

Rev. Dr. Randall D. Engle is pastor of the North Hills Christian Reformed Church of Troy, MI, and professor of religious studies and director of Christianity studies at Oakland University, Auburn Hills, MI. He is the author of Serving in Your Church Music Ministry (2009) and Sound Theology: Pipe Organ Power...

Dr. Rebekah Eklund is associate professor of theology at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore. She recently published Jesus Wept: The Significance of Jesus' Laments in the New Testament (T&T Clark, 2014). (Source and photo: bibleodyssey.org)

Dr. David Emanuel is a professor of Old Testament, and is a graduate of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, as well as the University of London. (Source and photo: biblicalelearning.org)