Christians

At some time during their lives, the following people have publicly identified themselves as Christian. Inclusion in this list does not indicate approval or disapproval of the person, their religious beliefs, or their actions. This is a recurring segment in this blog.

Master of the Life of the Virgin: (fl. 1463-1490, aka: Master of Wilten, Johann van Duyren) This painter is identified only by his famed painting, The Life of the Virgin. The "van Duyren" identification is disputed.

Alan Ball: (b. 1952, Georgia, USA) Openly gay screenwriter, director, actor, producer. He has won an Academy Award, an Emmy, and a Golden Globe. His best-known projects are Six Feet Under, American Beauty, and True Blood.

Patricia Barnes: (b. Alabama, USA, aka: Sister Schubert) In 1992 she started Sister Schubert’s Homemade Rolls, now a $60,000,000/year company. Philanthropist.

Gregory of Nyssa: (b. 331? – d. 396?)Bishop of Nyssa and one of the Cappadocian Fathers (with his brother, Basil the Great, and his friend, Gregory of Nazianzus. Gregory was a staunch defender of orthodoxy and fiercely anti-Arian since Arianism denied the doctrine of the Trinity. He believed that the sudden realization of the provable massive extent of regularity and order in the cosmos was the most likely “proof” of God to reach a skeptic intellectual.

Thomas Jonathan Jackson: (b. 1824 – d. 1863, aka: Stonewall jackson) Presbyterian, Confederate general.