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Andrei Rublev (c. 1360-c. 1430) was a Russian artist considered to be one of the greatest medieval Russian painters of Orthodox Christian icons and frescoes. He is revered as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and his feast day is 29 January. (Source: wikipedia.org)

Fleming Rutledge, having spent twenty-two years in parish ministry, now has an international preaching and teaching vocation. She was one of the first women to be ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church in 1977. Her most recent book, God Spoke to Abraham: Preaching from the Old Testament (Eerdmans),...

Haddon W. Robinson (1931-2017) was an American evangelical who was the Harold John Ockenga Distinguished Professor of Preaching, senior director of the Doctor of Ministry program, and former interim President at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He was also the founding President of the Theology of Work Project. He graduated from Bob...

Rev. Seth Richardson is a director with Gravity Commons. He is a graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Wheaton Graduate School, and Northern Seminary. An Anglican priest, he has served in a variety of roles in churches in Chicago and Arkansas for over a decade. He is also a coach...

Fr. Fabian Radcliffe served for many years at the Priory of the Holy Cross, Leicester, UK.

Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (1828-1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement. (Source...

Rev. Sarah Renfro is the Assistant Vice President of Client Relations with Pension Fund of the Christian Church. She previously served local congregations in Kentucky and Indiana prior to joining the Pension Fund team in 2018. Over the course of her ministerial career, she served as Children, Youth & Family...

Shane Raynor is the Communications and Office Manager at First Methodist Lockhart, TX, and was previously an editor and blogger at MinistryMatters.com and the series editor for Converge Bible Studies. He has contributed to Circuit Rider, Good News, and Outreach magazines. Before Shane moved to Nashville, he lived in Austin,...

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (1875-1926), known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet and novelist. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of...

Rev. Dr. P. Solomon Raj (1921-2019) was a pastor of Protestant Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church Society, headquartered in Guntur, India. He is known as a teacher, pastor, administrator, professor and as an artist. He is a graduate of AELC-Andhra Christian College, Guntur, India; UELCI-Gurukul Lutheran Theological College, Chennai, India; Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; and Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, UK. As...