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Dr Luca Badetti
Dr. Luca Badetti approaches individual and social growth as a holistic and inclusive journey, with attention to the reality of disability. With degrees in Theology (BA), Clinical Psychology (MS) and Disability Studies (PhD), as well as fellowships in Psychoanalysis and disability leadership, he integrates theology with psycho-social insights. Badetti is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Loyola University of Chicago’s Institute of Pastoral Studies and teaches on disability and multiculturalism at DePaul University. He has been involved for over ten years in international L’Arche communities, most recently as Director of Community Life at L’Arche Chicago.
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Dr Georgina Byrne
Dr Georgina Byrne holds degrees in theology and history from Oxford, Cambridge and London. Her doctoral thesis examined ideas of the afterlife in late Victorian and Edwardian England. She continues to be interested in the interplay between religion and popular culture, particularly in the lives of women, and has contributed to books and journals. She is currently co-editing a book on the aftermath of the Great War. She was ordained in 1997 and ministered in West Bromwich and London before moving to Worcestershire as a vicar and dean of women’s ministry. In 2009 she became Diocesan Director of Ordinands for Worcester, a post she held until 2015. She is a residentiary canon at Worcester Cathedral and a Chaplain to the Queen.
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Dr Anna Cantelmi
Dr Anna Cantelmi holds a Doctoral Degree in Comparative Literature from Zhejiang University, China and a Master in Chinese Studies from SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), London. Her research focus on the transmission and interpretation of Western Literature in Asia, in particular the translation of Dante in China. Her researches focused on translation literature as a cultural process which reflects social chenge, religion, history and gender. She is currently researching on thelogy and religion in literature and its impact abroad.
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Diandra Erickson
Diandra Erickson recently received her Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. Her dissertation focused on Judean identity formation in the Book of Ezekiel, utilizing diasporic and postcolonial theories in order to illustrate how the Judean community’s experiences of Babylonian colonization directly affect the rhetorical purpose of the book. In addition to her research on prophetic literature, Diandra has worked heavily with issues of gender and feminisms in the biblical texts, and she recently written an article on the book of Judges that focuses on gender identity and ambivalence. This article contributes to a Postcolonial Commentary to the Hebrew Bible that will be released in late 2018. She is currently a Visiting Professor at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary.
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Dr Nontando Hadebe
Nontando Hadebe is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at St Augustine College in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is the Chair of the Southern African Circle for Concerned African Women Theologians, a board member of Catholic Women Preach, and a radio presenter at Radio Veritas, a Catholic Radio station in South Africa. Her doctoral research is 'A Trinitarian theological response to gender challenges in the context of HIV & AIDS in Southern Africa.' Following her doctorate in 2013, she has pursued her research on women and Christianity, particularly the Catholic Church in the African context. Her inclusive focus on all women has extended to sexual minorities, particularly lesbians and their experiences of brutaisation.
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Rev Dr Majorie Lewis
Marjorie is a minister of the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands (UCJCI). She is a graduate of the United Theological College of the West Indies, the University of the West Indies and the University of Birmingham in the U.K. Her PhD dissertation was on the spirituality of Black British women, and she has co-authored books on racial justice and published academic articles and Bible Study notes. She has served as a Pastor of churches in rural Jamaica, and her ministry has included community development, notably as Project Officer for Oxfam U.K. and as a consultant to the Jamaican Government.
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Dr Emily Pennington
Emily is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Chester, UK. She received her doctorate from the University of Chester in March 2015. Her thesis, entitled “Touching the Future: A Feminist Theology of Eschatological Bodies”, sought to construct a new model of eschatological embodiment based on the values of relationality, fluidity, and tactility. This work was recently published under the title Feminist Eschatology: Embodied Futures (Routledge, 2016). Emily remains committed to centralising women’s embodiments, and is currently researching theological perspectives on women’s experiences of creativity.
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Janice Price
Janice Price is World Mission Adviser for the Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England. She has been involved in leading change processes in a variety of church contexts such as parishes, agencies and at Diocesan and National levels. She holds an MA in Theology and Education and an MSc in Theological and Ministerial Research from King’s College London. She is the author of Telling Our Faith Story (2009, Grove Booklets) and World-Shaped Mission (2012, Church House Publishing).
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Dr Peniel Jesudason Rufus Rajkumar
Peniel Jesudason Rufus Rajkumar is Programme Executive for Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation with the World Council of Churches, Geneva. Previously he was Associate Professor of Christian Social Ethics at the United Theological College in Bangalore, India. His publications include Challenges of Transition: Religion and Ethics in Changing Contexts (ISPCK, 2007) and Dalit Theology and Dalit Liberation: Problems, Paradigms and Possibilities (Ashgate, 2010); and as editor Asian Theology on the Way: Christianity, Culture and Context (London: SPCK 2012, Philadelphia: Fortress 2016) and Many Yet One: Multiple Religious Belonging (Geneva: WCC, 2016).
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Esther Stevenson
Esther Stevenson is a an independent leadership coach and organisational development consultant. She learned her craft as a senior manager at Christian Aid, where she worked on leadership development and organisational change across Africa, Central Asia and more recently with community activists across the UK. She holds a degree from the University of York and an MSc in International Development Studies, where her dissertation was on gender and education. Her ongoing area of interest is management innovation, and how leaders – particularly women - can be more authentic, embracing a more reflective and contemplative approach.
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Dr Lynn Thomas
Lynn is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities at Roehampton University, where she previously held the position of Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies. She has taught many courses on Hinduism and Indian religion, as well as on the study of religion more broadly. Lynn has degrees in Religious Studies from the University of Lancaster and in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis at Oxford was on time in the Mahabharata, and her research has continued to focus on Indian text. She has published on a number of topics within this, including time, kingship, narrative structure, and gender. Lynn’s most recent research has looked at ways in which Indian text might be brought to bear on discussions of human rights. This includes ‘Negotiating the Spaces: exploring issues of human rights in an Indian text’, Religion 2018, vol. 48:1; and ‘Being human, dialogically’ in Brian Black and Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, eds. In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions: Encounter, Transformation, and Interpretation. Routledge (forthcoming).
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