S T Kimbrough, Jr., holds a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and has taught on leading theological faculties in the USA and abroad. He is currently a Research Fellow of the Center of Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. He has written these books with Wipf & Stock: The Lyrical Theology of Charles Wesley; Radical Grace: Justice for the Poor and Marginalized; Participation in the Divine Nature in the Writings of Charles Wesley; May She Have a Word with You? Women as Models of How to Live in the Writings of Charles Wesley, and six books of poetry: Why Should a Child Be Born? Poems for Peace and Justice in the Middle East; Of Death and Grief: Poems for Healing and Renewal; A Seagull Lunch and Other Nature Poems; Snowbound: Poems for Winter Days; Rethinking Christmas; and Living with Coronavirus: Poems for Suffering, Grieving, Dying, and Living.

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Dean B. McIntyre is retired as the director of music resources at The General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church in Nashville. He holds a bachelor's degree in organ performance, a master's in post-secondary music education, and a PhD in fine arts. He has taught church music and music history courses, and has over fifty years of experience in church music and worship. He has authored six books, Hymns for the Revised Common Lectionary (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010), Song Leading (1989), and A Reference Companion to The United Methodist Hymnal and The Faith We Sing (2009).