Jan Martijn Abrahamse
(Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Theology at Ede Christian University of Applied Sciences (CHE) and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Church and Mission in the West at the Theological University Utrecht (TUU).
K. Francis Adebayo
(Ph.D.) is currently working on the intersection of religion with ecology, politics and migration. He has published monographs on African religions, intercultural and mission theologies. He is visiting fellow at the Theological University Utrecht (TUU).
Dejan Aždajić
is a lecturer in Practical Theology at the Freie Theologische Hochschule Gießen. He has been involved in interreligious dialogue for the past fifteen year and has published a monograph on Sufi communities in the Balkans (De Gruyter, 2020). His research interests include lived religion, liturgical studies, embodiment and religious practices, as well as Christian-Muslim relations in contemporary society.
Jack Barentsen
(Ph.D.) is Professor of Practical Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven (Belgium) and researches religious leadership. He published Emerging Leadership in the Pauline Mission (2011), and co-edited volumes Leadership, (Super)Diversity and Identity Construction (2018), Bridge-Building Leadership in a Polarizing World (2024).
Philipp Bartholomä
(Ph.D.) is Professor of Practical Theology at the Freie Theologische Hochschule Gießen, Germany. He has most recently published a monograph on free church missional ecclesiology (2019) and a practical handbook for missional churches (2023).
James Butler
(Ph.D.) is Lecturer at Church Mission Society, Oxford, and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Roehampton, London. He completed his
Evelien van Duffelen
(M.A.) is Lecturer theology at the Christian University of Applied Sciences in Ede (NL), spiritual caretaker at a hospice and a prospective PhD-candidate at the Theological University Utrecht (TUU).
Christopher James
(Ph.D.) is Professor of Evangelism and Missional Christianity at University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. He researches and cultivates U.S. ecclesial ecologies. James is author of Church Planting in Post-Christian Soil (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Annemiek de Jonge
(Ph.D.) is Senior-researcher on ‘Spirituality in Healthcare’ at Viaa University of Applied Science in the Netherlands. She did her Ph.D. research on an ethnographic study into soteriological and ecclesiological understandings of practitioners in evangelical missionary community building. She now publishes about Spiritual Care.
Janel Kragt Bakker
(Ph.D.) is Professor of Mission and Culture at Memphis Theological Seminary. She studies postcolonial Christian mission and serves on the steering committee of the Theology of Reparations project with the Council for World Mission. Her publications include Sister Churches (Oxford, 2014).
Harvey Kwiyani
(Ph.D.) is Director of the Centre for Global Witness and Human Migration (ACTS 11 Project) at Church Mission Society, Oxford, England, where he also leads graduate studies in African Christianity. He researches the implications of migration on the religious landscape of Europe and North America. He has edited and published several books, including Sent Forth: African Christianity in the West (Orbis, 2014) and Decolonising Mission (SCM, 2025).
Ross A. Lockhart
(Ph.D.) is Dean of St. Andrew’s Hall and Professor of Mission Studies at Vancouver School of Theology. He is an ordained minister in The Presbyterian
Clive Marsh
was until recently Principal of the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham, UK. He has published widely on the interaction between theology and popular culture. His latest book is A Cultural Theology of Salvation (OUP, 2018).
Stefan Paas
is Professor of Missiology at Theologische Universiteit Utrecht and Professor of Missiology and Public Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In his recent work, he studies the relationship between missiology and soteriology, specifically in the secular West.
Nigel Rooms
(Th.D.) is an Anglican priest, missiologist and practical theologian. He works as a freelance consultant, researcher, facilitator, writer, editor, priest and spiritual director. He is founder and co-editor of the Open Access Journal Ecclesial Futures.
Bert Roor
(Ph.D.) was lecturing missiology and diaconate at the Christian University of Applied Sciences in Ede (NL). He specialized in missiological learning processes in church congregations and was co-editor of Betrokken in Gods missie (KokBoekencentrum, 2023). Since 2024, he is an associate researcher of the Theological University of Apeldoorn.
Cathy Ross
(Ph.D.) is Head of Pioneer Leadership Training for the Church Mission Society in Oxford, UK. She has published books and articles in the area of missiology, with a particular interest in hospitality.
Hans Schaeffer
is Professor of Practical Theology and Research Director at Theologische Universiteit Utrecht (TUU). He is a director of the Centre for Church and Mission in the West at the TUU and Editor-in-Chief of Ecclesial Practices (Brill).
(Ph.D.) is Professor emeritus of Theology at the Christian University of Applied Sciences Ede, the Netherlands (CHE). His areas of research include congregational development, church and mission, leadership and discipleship development.
Berdine van den Toren-Lekkerkerker
(Ph.D.) is Lecturer at the Theological University Utrecht, and Director of the Mission Council in the Netherlands. She is also a Mission Partner with Church Mission Society (UK) for theological education, with a focus on French-speaking Africa. She publishes on community, mission and relationships in mission. Her research interest is in relationships in mission in a world of inequalities.
Karen Zwijze-Koning
(Ph.D.) is a postdoctoral researcher Practical Theology at the Theological University Utrecht (TUU). She wrote her dissertation on auditing organizational communication and works with churches in the Netherlands on church renewal and collaborative goal deployment.