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Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in June 2006. She served as chief pastor and primate to the Episcopal Church's members in 17 countries, 109 dioceses, and three regional areas. She joined with other principal bishops of the 38-member Provinces of the worldwide...

Dr. Daniel Jesse is a researcher on emotions in Christian music and how songs shape our emotions. He graduated with his doctorate from University of Aberdeen and teaches at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, MI. (Source: danieljesse.substack.com)

Rev. Dr. Karl Jacobson (1969-2024) (M.Div., Luther Seminary; Th.D., Providence) served as Senior Pastor at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Minneapolis, MN. Prior to that, he was Assistant Professor of Religion at Augsburg College. Jacobson was contributing author to Crazy Talk: A Not-So-Stuffy Dictionary of Theological Terms (Augsburg...

Elisabeth Johnson is an ELCA pastor and missionary serving in Cameroon as a professor at the Lutheran Institute of Theology in Meiganga. She earned a Ph.D. in New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary and has served as an adjunct professor for Luther Seminary (2003-04 and 2007-08). She is the author...

Rev. Andy James is a Presbyterian minister living and working in Atlanta, GA. He serves as the Stated Clerk for the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta. He previously served eleven years as the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Whitestone, three years as Stated Clerk of the Presbytery of New York City, and six years on...

Michelle Riley Jones is Minister for Music, Worship, and Church Administrator with Capitol Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church and a frequent contributor to the African American Lectionary. (Source and photo: theafricanamericanlectionary.org)

Rev. Christine Jerrett is a minister in the United Church of Canada, and ministers with Shiloh Inwood United Church in Lambton County in a part-time appointment. She has served both urban and rural congregations, many of them in times of transition. She is the director of an online training program...

Rev. Dr. Jamie Jenkins served as the Minister of Visitation at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Atlanta, GA. He has served in various capacities in the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church. He is an ordained United Methodist minister who retired in 2014 from the North Georgia...

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was an American writer and civil rights activist. He was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novel and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of...

Rev. Dr. Scott Black Johnston is senior pastor of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York, NY. He previously served as pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, GA, and is a former professor of homiletics at Austin (TX) Theological Seminary. He is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and...