Grace Evelyn Reese Adkins devoted most of her considerable energy and talents as a teacher, writer, composer, ...

Cyrus Adler was a scholar, editor, and Jewish leader with a lifetime commitment to the study of Jewish history...

George W. Baines was a prominent nineteenth-century Southern Baptist minister, teacher, Arkansas politician, a...

Father Pietro Bandini, a Roman Catholic priest, is most widely remembered in Arkansas for the 1898 founding of...

The Reverend Joseph H. Biltz, a Roman Catholic priest and human rights activist, was a staunch supporter of so...

Charles Edward Blake Sr. is the presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). He is also pastor of ...

Frances (Fanny) Block was the matriarch of the first documented Jewish family to immigrate to what became the ...

Benjamin Marcus Bogard, founder and head of the American Baptist Association, was Arkansas’s leading fundame...

Joseph Albert Booker—noted editor, educator, and community leader—was for four decades a prominent leader ...

When the Reverend Dr. Peggy Bosmyer was ordained in January 1977 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Little Rock...

Fountain Brown was a Methodist preacher who was the first person to be charged and found guilty of violating t...

The Right Reverend Robert Raymond Brown was the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas. He became n...

The colorful William Montgomery Brown was consecrated as the assistant bishop of the Diocese of Arkansas on Ju...

Andrew Byrne was the first Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Little Rock, which then and now encompasses...

Cornelius Tyree (C. T.) Carpenter was an educator, minister, and attorney in northeastern Arkansas. In additio...

Sarah Esther Case was the first woman from Arkansas to be called as a foreign missionary by the Methodist Epis...

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, some ministers served multiple churches spread out over an are...

Alida Clawson Clark, an Indiana Quaker who co-founded Southland College, arrived in Arkansas with her husband,...

Ebenezer Lee (E. L.) Compere was the son of pioneer Baptist missionary Lee Compere, who came to Arkansas betwe...

Baptist missionary Lee Compere did missionary work with the Creek Nation in Georgia and Alabama. He later join...

James Hal Cone became known as the father of Black liberation theology, which he described as a “theological...

James F. Drane was one of the founding figures of biomedical ethics. He was a Roman Catholic priest and profes...

Edward Mary Fitzgerald was the second Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Little Rock, overseeing a dioces...

Albert Lewis Fletcher was the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Little Rock, the only Catholic diocese for the s...

Nicolas Foucault was the first Christian missionary to serve among the Quapaw Indians of Arkansas. Nicolas Fou...

George Washington Freeman was an Episcopal clergyman who served from 1844 to 1858 as the second missionary bis...

David Crockett (D. C.) Graham was a Baptist missionary and pioneer anthropologist in southwestern China. Over...

Lawrence Preston Graves served as the second auxiliary Roman Catholic bishop for the Diocese of Little Rock, w...