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Gerald Anderson is a member of the music faculty at Olivet Nazarene University, in Bourbonnais, Illinois, where he teaches piano as well as courses in music theory, music literature, and music history. Gerald performs extensively as a soloist, chamber musician, church musician, and clinician. In 2002 he recorded his first solo CD, "Classic Hymns." |
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Wesley Avram, from New Haven, Connecticut, is the Stephen Merrell Clement-E. William Muehl Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at Yale Divinity School. He was formerly pastor of First Presbyterian Church of WIlmette, Illinois, and served as chaplain at Bates College. Avram has published articles and sermons in The Journal of Religious Ethics, The New Oxford Review, and Sojourners magazine, and has received preaching prizes from the Christian Century Foundation and Princeton Seminary. Go to sermons |
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Edward Beck, from New York City, is a Roman Catholic priest of the Passionist Community and the author of God Underneath: Spiritual Journeys of a Catholic Priest (Doubleday, 2001) and Unlikely Ways Home: Real Life Spiritual Detours (Doubleday, 2004). Go to sermons |
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Floyd Brown has been host of 30 Good Minutes since 1991. He is a veteran broadcaster and former host of The Floyd Brown Show on WGN radio. He lives in Elgin, Illinois with his wife, Betty, and is President of the Floyd Brown Company, an advertising and public relations firm. Mr. Brown is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chicago Sunday Evening Club. |
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As senior pastor of the First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple – the oldest church in the region – Philip Blackwell leads a vibrant congregation of more than 1,000 members – one of the most racially, ethnically, and economically diverse congregations in America. In the past year Phil has appeared on ABC News World Tonight – on the subject of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” -- and on PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, where he spoke on the topic of marriage. Go to sermons |
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Tony Campolo, from St. Davids, Pennsylvania, is professor emeritus of Sociology at Eastern College. He is founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education an organization that provides resources and support for "at risk" children in the United States and Canada. Tony is one of America’s most popular speakers and is the author of many books. Go to sermons |
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Delle Chatman, from Chicago, Illinois, (www.dellechatman.com) is a Roman Catholic laywoman, writer, and teacher. She has written scripts produced by NBC, ABC, CBS and PBS, and her screenplay, “Free of Eden,“ starring Sidney Poitier, premiered on the Showtime network in 1999. She is Director of the Media Arts Division of the National High School Institute based at Northwestern University, and is the author of The Death of a Parent: Reflections for Adults Mourning the Loss of a Father or Mother and The Unteachable Ten: Wisdom and Visions for All Students of Life. Delle appears frequently on “30 Good Minutes” as a commentator. Go to sermons |
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Jana Childers, from San Francisco, California, is Dean of the Seminary and Professor of Homiletics and Speech-Communication at San Francisco Theological Seminary. As a Presbyterian minister, she served churches in Kansas and New Jersey. She is the author of Performing the Word: Preaching as Theatre, co-editor of The Abingdon Women’s Preaching Annual, Series I, and editor of Birthing the Sermon: Women Preachers on Creative Process and Purpose of Preaching. Go to sermons |
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Joan Chittister, from Erie, Pennsylvania, is Executive Director of BenetVision and former prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Pennsylvania. She is a world renowned thinker, writer, and speaker in the areas of spirituality, peace, and women in the church. Joan is the author of Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir, Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope, and many other books. Go to sermons |
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John Claypool, from Atlanta, Georgia, is one of America’s great preachers. He is rector emeritus of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Birmingham, Alabama and former Theologian-in-Residence at Trinity Episcopal Church in New Orleans. He is currently Visiting Professor of Preaching at the McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia. John is the author of many books and is in wide demand as a guest preacher in pulpits throughout the United States. Go to sermons |
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Dennis Dewey, from Utica, New York, is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and works full-time as an itinerant, ecumenical biblical storyteller. Dewey has been a featured presenter at the annual Festival Gathering of the Network of Biblical Storytellers (NOBS), and has performed and taught at hundreds of churches and for organizations such as Princeton Theological Seminary's Institute of Theology, the Joseph Campbell Festival, and the National Storytelling Festival. (www.dennisdewey.org) |
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Anna Carter Florence, from Decatur, Georgia, is Assistant Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary. As a Presbyterian minister, she served a parish in Minneapolis for five years before embarking on an academic career that began as a teaching fellow and instructor at Princeton Theological Seminary. She is the author of the soon-to-be-released Preaching as Testimony and her sermons appear in many publications and books. Go to her sermons |
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Grace Imathiu, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was born in Kenya and raised in the city of Nairobi. She is an ordained elder in the Methodist Church of Kenya and has served in congregations in Kenya, Washington, Ohio, Tennessee and Wisconsin. As a preacher and Bible study teacher, Grace has ministered in Germany, Denmark, Australia, Malaysia, Brazil and England, as well as the United States. She is tha author of Words of Fire, Spirit of Grace and Matthew's Message: Good News for the New Millennium. Go to sermons |
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Rabbi Karyn Kedar is former Director of the Great Lakes Region of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and currently Rabbi of B'nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim Synagogue in Glenview, Ilinois . Kedar was the first woman to serve as a rabbi in Jerusalem. She is a gifted writer and storyteller, and the author of The Dance of the Dolphin and God Whispers. She is a frequent guest on 30 Good Minutes. Read her sermons |
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John Killinger, from Warrenton, Virginia, taught at Vanderbilt Divinity School for 15 year and has pastored churches in Virginia, California, and Michigan. He is the author of more than 50 books, including God, The Devil, and Harry Potter and Ten Things I Learned Wrong from a Conservative Church. Go to his sermons |
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The Kithara Trio (Jill Kaeding, Anita Miller Rieder, Faye Seeman) performs throughout the Midwest for groups like The Community Concert Series, The Green Lake Music Festival, The National Guild of Organists, The Lyric Opera Center for Performing Artists, and many others. They have produced two CDs: "Beau Soir - an Evening of French Chamber Music" and "Kithara Wonderland." The Kithara Trio has appeared on 30 Good Minutes since 1998. |
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Tom McGrath is Vice President of Product Development for Loyola Press, publishers of the Finding God in All Things religious education program. Tom is most recently the co-creator, with Bret Nicholaus, of The Meal Box: Fun Questions and Family Faith Tips to Get Mealtime Conversations Cookin'. View his Reflections |
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Benjamin Reaves, from Orlando, Florida, is Vice President of Ministries for Adventist Health System. He previously served as General Field Secretary for the General Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Church and as President of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. Go to sermons |
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Michael Siegel is Senior Rabbi of Anshe Emet Synagogue. He is a leader in the Jewish community both in Chicago and nationally. In 2003/2004 he appeared regularly on “30 Good Minutes” as a commentator. Go to sermons |
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Jim Somerville is Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. He is a native of West Virginia and served for nine years as pastor of Wingate Baptist Church in Wingate, North Carolina, before moving to the nation’s capital. Jim is a gifted storyteller and a great lover of the outdoors. Go to his sermons |
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Ann Svennungsen, from Atlanta, Georgia, is President of the Fund for Theological Education, the nation’s leading advocate for excellence and diversity in Christian ministry. As a Lutheran minister, she served churches in Iowa City and Minneapolis before answering the call in 1996 to be Senior Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, a 3,700-member congregation in Moorhead, Minnesota. During her seven years at Trinity, Svennungsen served the largest ELCA congregation to be led by a woman senior pastor. Go to her sermons |
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Lydia Talbot has been host of 30 Good Minutes since 1992. She is an Emmy Aware winning religious broadcaster and Executive Director of Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries, producers of "Sanctuary" on ABC Chicago and "Different Drummers" on CBS Chicago. Ms. Talbot serves on the board of the Christian Century and the Chicago Bible Society and is a member of Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ. She lives in the Lakeview neighborhood with her husband, Earl, and they are the parents of two children and two grandchildren. |
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The 30 Good Minutes Chorale, founded in 1969 as the Chicago Sunday Evening Chorale, is the resident choir of 30 Good Minutes. The singers are professional musicians from throughout the Chicago area, many of whom sing regularly with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, the Lyric Opera Chorus, Grant Park Symphony Chorus, and numerous professional church choirs. |
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Renita Weems, from Nashville, Tennessee, is the William and Camille Cosby Professor of Humanities at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1987-2004 she was on the divinity faculty at Vanderbilt University in Nashville as a professor of Hebrew Bible. Renita is the author of many books, including Just a Sister Away: A Womanist Vision of Women's Relationships in the Bible and What Matters Most : Ten Lessons in Living Passionately from the Song of Solomon. Go to sermons |
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