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Fr. Richard Rohr is a globally recognized ecumenical teacher bearing witness to the universal awakening within Christian mysticism and the Perennial Tradition. He is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation (cac.org) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he also serves...

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular...

Sr. Elyse Ramirez serves as the director of formation for the Collaborative Dominican Novitiate in Chicago, where she facilitated the spiritual and professional growth of five novices from three Dominican congregations. She was coordinator of religious vocation ministry for the Archdiocese of Chicago, 2007-2014. After her profession of vows in 1985...

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520), known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms...

Fr. Benjamin Roberts is a priest of the Diocese of Charlotte, NC and pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Monroe, NC. He is a graduate of D'Youville College (now University), St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, and the Aquinas Institute of Theology. He has done additional studies in ecumenism and...

Paul Ryan is the Worship Pastor at Calvin University, and a staff member of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. Paul is a graduate of Indiana University School of Music and Calvin Theological Seminary, and is an ordained pastor in the Christian Reformed Church in North America. (source and photo:...

Fr. Michael Renninger is pastor of St. Mary Catholic Church in Richmond, VA. (Source and photo: Ministry Matters)

Rev. Dr. Charlene Rachuy Cox serves as the Director of Programming, Engagement, and Innovation for Congregational Thriving through the St. Olaf College Lutheran Center. She is a graduate of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Luther Seminary, and Augustana University, Sioux Falls. She has...

Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember." She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Britain: "In the Bleak Midwinter," later set by Gustav Holst, Katherine Kennicott Davis, and Harold Darke, and "Love Came...

Guido Reni (1575-1642) was an Italian Baroque painter, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne. He painted primarily religious works, but also mythological and allegorical subjects. Active in Rome, Naples, and his native Bologna, he became the dominant figure in...