Gary L. Thomas

Author and Founder/Director, The Center for Evangelical Spirituality. Adjunct Faculty, Western Seminary, Portland, Oregon. Author of Sacred Marriage (2000), Sacred Pathways (1996), and Seeking the Face of God.

Reverend John Harmon Thomas

(August 10, 1950, Stamford, Connecticut-Alive). General Minister and President, United Church of Christ. Ordained Minister, United Church of Christ. Pastor, first United Church of Christ, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1982-1991. Assistant to the President for Ecumenical Concerns, United Church of Christ, 1991-1999. Co-Chair, Lutheran and Reformed Coordinating Committee, 1993. General Minister and President, United Church of Christ, 1999-Current.

Norman Mattoon Thomas

(November 20, 1884, Marion, Ohio-December 19, 1968, Huntington, New York). Presbyterian Minister and Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948. Ordained Minister, Presbyterian Church, 1911. Pastor, East Harlem Presbyterian Church, 1911. A pacifist, he opposed WWI. Co-Founder, Fellowhsip of Reconciliation. Co-Founder, National Civil Liberties Bureau, 1917. Founder and Editor, World Tomorrow, 1918. Co-Founder, American Civil Liberties Union, 1920. Co-Director, League of Industrial Democracy, 1922-1937. Socialist Party candidate for Governor of New York, 1924. Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948. Co-Founder, America First Committee, 1940-1941. Opponent of racism, poverty, rearmament, the Cold War, Soviet communism, and the Vietnam War.

National General Secretary Thomas Thomas

(October 16, 1947, India-Alive). National General Secretary, National Council of YMCAs of India. Mar Thomite Christian. Staff, Young Men's Christian Association of India, 1967-Current. Founder and National General Secretary, National Council of YMCAs of Sudan, 1986-1988. National General Secretary, National Council of YMCAs of India, 1998-Current.

Christian Thomasius

(January 1, 1655, Leipzig, Germany-September 23, 1728). Jurist and Philosopher. Professor of Law, University of Leipzig, 1684. Began to lecture in German, instead of Latin. Ally of the Pietists and a defender of freedom of thought. Forbidden to lecture or write and subject to arrest, he fled to Berlin. Helped to found the University of Halle, 1694. An earnest opponent of the prosecution of witches and the use of torture.

Right Reverend Bishop James Lawton Thompson

(August 11, 1936, Birmingham, England-September 19, 2003, at sea on board cruise ship Minerva II). Anglican Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1991-2001. Ordained Deacon, Anglican Church, 1966. Ordained Priest, Anglican Church, 1968. Rector of Thamesmead and Ecumenical Team Leader, 1971-1978. Suffragan, then Area Bishop of Stepney, 1978-1991. Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1991-2001. Assistant Bishop of Exeter, England, 2001-2003. Noted contributor to the "Thought for the Day," BBC Radio.

(December 13, 1930, Vilakumadam, India-Alive). Syro-Malabarese Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Trichur, India, 1996-2007. Ordained Priest, Syro-Malabarese Rite, Roman Catholic Church, December 22, 1956. Syro-Malabarese Rite Catholic Bishop of Mananthavady, India, March 1, 1973. Syro-Malabarese Rite Catholic Bishop of Thamarasserry, India, May 18, 1995. Syro-Malabarese Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Trichur, India, November 11, 1996-March 18, 2007.

(January 7, 1949, Kalloorkad, India-Alive). Roman Catholic Bishop of Jhabua, India. Ordained Priest, Society of the Divine Word, May 11, 1979. Bishop of Jhabua, India, March 25, 2002-Current.

(1933, Kham, Tibet-Alive). Tibetan Buddhist Zhentong Lineage Holder, Rinpoche, and Scholar. Recognized as the 9th incarnation of Thrangu Tulku, 1938. Entered Thrangu Monastery. Ordained Monk by His Holiness the Karmapa, 1956. Fled Tibet to India, 1959. Called to Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim by Karmapa and asked to help preserve the Kagyu lineage. Awarded degree of Geshe Lharampa, 1968. Abbot of Rumtek Monastery and Director, Nalanda Institute for Higher Buddhist Studies, Rumtek, Sikkim. Founder, Thrangu Tashi Choling, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1976. Built Tara Abbey, Kathmandu, Nepal. Built Vajra Vidya, Sarnath, India. Founded centers and retreats throughout the West. Abbot of Gampo Abbey, Nova Scotia, Canada. A recognized master of Mahamudra meditation.