In memorium

George Verwer, founder of missions organization Operation Mobilization, has passed away at the age of 84.

Pastor Jack Hayford, author, songwriter, and longtime pastor of Church on the Way in Van Nuys, California, has died at the age of 88. 

The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, who welcomed generations of worshippers as well as political leaders from across the nation and around the world at Harlem's landmark Abyssinian Baptist Church, died Friday at age 73.

Leslie Jordan, actor, writer, singer, and social media star who won an Emmy for his role as Beverly Leslie on the television series Will & Grace, died Monday morning (Oct 24) at the age of 67.

John P. Meier, a theologian and biblical commentator whose multi-volume “A Marginal Jew” transformed the Catholic approach to critical historical research into the life of Jesus and religious faith, died Tuesday.

Dan Busby, who was president of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability for more than a decade, has died after a monthslong bout with cancer.

Richard Dujardin, a lifelong newspaperman who covered religion for more than three decades for the Providence Journal, has died at age 77 from an accidental fall from a bridge.

A Vermont nun who served as a college president, worked in Washington to ban land mines and served as a deputy commissioner of the state Department of Corrections has died.