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Chris Fabry

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:44:53 GMT

Chris Fabry is an award-winning author and radio personality who hosts the daily program Chris Fabry Live! on Moody Radio. He is also heard on Love Worth Finding, Building Relationships with Dr. Gary Chapman, and other radio programs.

Chris has published more than seventy books, including novels, nonfiction, film novelizations, and novels for children and young adults. His books include Dogwood, June Bug, Almost Heaven, Not in the Heart, Borders of the Heart, Every Waking Moment, The Promise of Jesse Woods, and Looking into You, and have won three Christy Awards, an ECPA Christian Book Award, and two Christianity Today Book Awards of Merit. Chris and his wife, Andrea, now live in Arizona and are the parents of nine children.

Gabriel Fackre

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:54:59 GMT

Gabriel Fackre is Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology Emeritus at Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. He is the author of The Christian Story.

Gem Fadling

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:44:17 GMT

Gem Fadling, CLC, is a founding partner of Unhurried Living, Inc., a non-profit that trains people to rest deeper, live fuller, and lead better. She is a certified life coach and a trained spiritual director who coaches women at the intersection of spiritual leadership and soul care. Gem is the host of the I Can Do That! Podcast and the coauthor of What Does Your Soul Love?: Eight Questions That Reveal God’s Work in You.

Alan Fadling

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:48:51 GMT

Alan Fadling (MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary) is president and founder of Unhurried Living, Inc. in Mission Viejo, California, inspiring people to rest deeper, live fuller, and lead better. He speaks and consults internationally with organizations such as Saddleback Church, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Cru, Halftime Institute, Apprentice Institute, and Open Doors International.

He is the award-winning author of An Unhurried Leader and An Unhurried Life, which was honored with a Christianity Today Award of Merit in spirituality. He is also coauthor (with Gem Fadling) of What Does Your Soul Love? and a contributing author to Eternal Living: Reflections on Dallas Willard's Teaching on Faith and Formation. Fadling is a trained spiritual director, and he lives in Mission Viejo, California, with his wife, Gem.

Mark R. Fairchild

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:12:33 GMT

Mark R. Fairchild (PhD, Drew University) was professor of Bible and Religion at Huntington University. He spent over twenty years doing research in ancient Anatolia and worked with Mustafa Sahin to direct the excavation of the submerged Basilica. He is author of Christian Origins in Ephesus and Asia Minor (Hendrickson).

Cathleen Falsani

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:51:09 GMT

Cathleen Falsani is an award-winning religion journalist and author, specializing in the intersection of faith and culture. Her books include the critically acclaimed The God Factor, Sin Boldly, The Dude Abides, BELIEBER, and Disquiet Time (coedited with Jennifer Grant).

Falsani is a longtime correspondent for Religion News Service and a featured writer for Sojourners, where she was the director of new media from 2010 to 2012. She was the religion writer and columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times from 2000 to 2010, and also was the Faith & Values Columnist for the Orange County Register. Falsani's work has appeared in myriad print, broadcast, and digital media, including the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Toronto Star, Christianity Today, Christian Century, Rolling Stone, The Harvard Divinity School Bulletin, CNN, The Atlantic, NPR, and the BBC World Service, among many others.

In addition to her work covering religion in the United States and abroad, Falsani has written extensively about global poverty, AIDS and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, and other issues affecting the developing world. Her reporting in this arena has taken her to Nepal, Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zanzibar, Kenya, Tanzania, Haiti, Mexico, and the West Indies. In 2005, Falsani received the James O. Supple Religion Writer of the Year award from Religion Newswriters Association, and she twice has been a finalist for the Templeton Religion Reporter of the Year award. She serves as a member of the advisory board for Girls and Women at the ONE Campaign.

A graduate of Wheaton College, Falsani holds a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a master's degree in theological studies from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. She lives in Southern California with her husband, the journalist and author Maurice Possley, and their son.

Kirk D. Farney

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 19:35:29 GMT

Kirk D. Farney (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is vice president for advancement, vocation, and alumni engagement and a member of the history faculty at Wheaton College (Illinois).

Ingrid Faro

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 20:59:58 GMT

Ingrid Faro (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is coordinator of the MA in Old Testament program and visiting professor at Northern Seminary in Lisle, Illinois. She previously served as dean of academic affairs at Northern Seminary, dean of theology at the Scandinavian School of Theology, and director of masters programs at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She is the author of Evil in Genesis and coauthor of Honest Answers. Additionally, she serves on the editorial board of the Bulletin for Biblical Research. She speaks and preaches internationally and enjoys hiking, fitness, and kayaking. Faro has two married children, three grandchildren, and lives just outside Chicago, Illinois.

Bill Farrel

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:51:14 GMT

Bill Farrel is pastor to small groups at Shadow Mountain Community Church. Bill is codirector (with his wife and another IVP author, Pam) of Masterful Living, a relationships ministry. Bill is the coauthor of Devotions for Men on the Go! (with Steve Arterburn) and Men are Like Waffles, Women Are Like Spaghetti (with Pam Farrel, Harvest House). He is also the author of Let Her Know You Love Her: 100 Ways to Make Your Wife's Day, a guy's guide to romance. Farrel has worked as a senior pastor, youth pastor, radio speaker, public speaker, and writer.

Visit Bill & Pam Farrel's Masterful Living ministry website.

Pam Farrel

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:51:26 GMT

Pam Farrel, a speaker and author, is cofounder with her husband Bill of Masterful Living, an organization that helps couples build successful relationships. Together Pam and Bill authored the bestselling book Men are Like Waffles, Women are Like Spaghetti (Harvest House).

Pam is also the author of Woman of Influence: Ten Traits of Those Who Want to Make a Difference (IVP), The Treasure of Your Child (Harvest House), Got Teens? Tried Tips for Raising Tweens, Teens and Beyond (Harvest House), Devotions for Women on the Go! (with Steve Aurterburn), and articles in magazines and newspapers. Farrel has also worked as a director of women's ministries, youth leader, and conference speaker.

Visit Bill & Pam Farrel's Masterful Living ministry website.

B. Hunter Farrell

Fri, 21 May 2021 17:51:41 GMT

B. Hunter Farrell (doctor of anthropology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) is the director of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary’s World Mission Initiative (WMI). He has worked for over thirty years as a missionary, director of world mission for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and a professor of mission and intercultural studies. He has published articles in periodicals including Missiology, The Journal of Latin American Theology, and Christianity Today.

Naeem Fazal

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:14:32 GMT

Naeem Fazal

Gordon D. Fee

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:55:02 GMT

Gordon D. Fee (1934-2022) (PhD, University of Southern California) was professor emeritus of New Testament studies at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He wrote several books and commentaries, including Listening to the Spirit in the Text, God's Empowering Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul, New Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors, and commentaries on 1 Corinthians and Philippians (NICNT) and the Pastoral Epistles (NIBC).

Nathan P. Feldmeth

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:10:45 GMT

Nathan Feldmeth is associate dean for extended education and assistant professor of church history at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He has contributed articles to InterVarsity Press's New Dictionary of Theology, Dictionary of Christianity in America, and Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters.

Steven Félix-Jäger

Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:19:38 GMT

Steven Félix-Jäger (PhD, University of Wales) is assistant professor and chair of the worship arts and media program at Life Pacific University. He is the author of Art Theory for a Global Pluralistic Age, Spirit of the Arts, With God on Our Side, and Pentecostal Aesthetics.

Read an interview with Steven on Spirit-led doxology and his own experience of sensing the presence of the Holy Spirit in worship.

Kimberly H. Fenstermacher

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 19:21:53 GMT

Kimberly H. Fenstermacher (PhD, CRNP) is chief nursing administrator, assistant dean of nursing, and associate professor of nursing at Messiah University.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:43:08 GMT

Sinclair B. Ferguson is senior minister at First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and serves as professor of systematic theology at Westminster Seminary in Dallas, Texas.

Marnie C. Ferree

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:37:24 GMT

Marnie C. Ferree (M.A., Trevecca Nazarene University), is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She is director of Bethesda Workshops in Nashville, a clinical intensive treatment program for sex addicts, co-addicts, and couples. Ferree formally worked as a marriage and family therapist at Woodmont Hills Counseling Center in Nashville.

J. V. Fesko

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:25:46 GMT

J. V. Fesko

Jessica Leep Fick

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:19:26 GMT

Jessica Leep Fick is evangelism resources director for Stonecroft, a women's ministry based in Kansas City. Previously she served as a writer and evangelist for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, preaching, teaching, and doing evangelism training at conferences, churches, and campus groups across the country. She loves to help believers have fun with Jesus in his mission and talk with people who don't follow Jesus about their spiritual questions. Jessica believes that the good news of Jesus should influence every area of life—not just the soul—and is passionate about following Jesus as a wife, mom, preacher, neighbor, student, and friend. She has a master's degree in evangelism and leadership from Wheaton College Graduate School and lives in Kansas City with her husband and two sons.