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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
1975-
Danya Ruttenberg is an American rabbi, editor, and author. She’s written several books, on top of contributing to numerous publications and news outlets before her ordination in 2008.
Early Life
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg was born on...
Rachel Adler
July 2, 1943 - Present (Modern Era)
Rachel Adler was one of the first theologians to use feminist ideas and concerns to study Jewish texts and the renewal of Jewish laws and ethics. This led her to create and host a women's Talmud class in her home. She taught the women there the text in its...
Rachel Held Evans
June 8 1981 - Present (Modern Era)
Rachel Held Evans was born in Birgmingham, Alabama and attended Bryan College. She majored in English literature and graduated in 2003. She spent several years working at various newspapers before she began writing pro bono as a humor columnist. In 2008, she...
Reinhold Niebuhr
June 21, 1892–June 1, 1971 (Modern Era)
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebhur was born in Missouri in 1892. He was one of the leading public intellectuals in America for several decades of the 20th century and spoke frequently about the intersection of religion and politics. He originally made a commitment...
Rev. Jesse Jackson
October 8, 1941 (Modern Era)
Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. was born in October 1941 in Greensville, South Carolina. As a young child, Jackson was taunted for being born out of wedlock and for being the product of an affair. Jackson later said that the mocking helped motivate him to succeed...
Richard Dawkins
March 26, 1941- Present (Modern Era)
Richard Dawkins, born Clinton Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist and popular-science writer from Nairobi Kenya, where his father was stationed at during World War II. Once the family returned to England, Dawkins received his bachelors,...
Richard Land
1946 -
Richard D. Land is the president of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, a position he's held since July 2013.
He served as president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the public policy arm of the Southern...
Richard Rohr, OFM
March 20 1943 - Present (Modern Era)
Richard Rohr was born in Kansas in 1943 and graduated from the University of Dayton with a master's degree in theology in 1970. He founded the New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati, Ohio a year later. He founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in...
Rick Jacobs
1956 -
Richard “Rick” Jacobs is a Reform rabbi and the president of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), the congregational arm of the Reform movement in North America, representing an estimated 1.5 million Reform Jews in nearly 900 synagogues across the...
Rick Warren
1954 -
Richard Duane Warren is an American Southern Baptist evangelical Christian pastor and author. He’s the founder of and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention in Lake Forest,...
Rishabhanatha
Rishabhanatha is the first Tirthankara or Ford maker of Jainism. He was the first of twenty-four teachers in the present half-cycle of time in Jain cosmology. He was called a Ford maker because his teachings helped one across the sea of endless rebirths and...
Rob Bell
August 23 1970 - Present (Modern Era)
Robert Holmes Bell Jr. was born in 1970 and founded Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Michigan. He was the pastor there until 2012, and the church had one of the fastest growing congreagations in America under his leadership. After leaving Mars Hill, he...
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