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Ashley Hales holds a PhD in English from the University of Edinburgh. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of story, culture, faith and philosophy, with a particular emphasis on sympathy, place-making, and genre. She is the author of two books, Finding Holy in the Suburbs: Living Faithfully in the Land of Too Much and the forthcoming, A Spacious Life: Trading Hustle and Hurry for the Goodness of Limits (published by InterVarsity Press). She enjoys good conversations with other Christian thinkers as she hosts the Finding Holy Podcast. She is married Bryce, a pastor, and they have four school-aged children. In her spare time, she enjoys curling up with a cup of tea and a mystery novel and finds a good walk can cure many things.
Dr Nigel Halliday trained as an art historian at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and the Courtauld Institute, London, where he gained his PhD in research on responses to Cubism and Surrealism in Britain in the 1920s and 30s. He wrote the history of Zwemmer’s modernist bookshop and art gallery ‘More than a bookshop: Zwemmer’s and art in the twentieth century” (London: Philip Wilson, 1991). He worked for many years as a church leader, while continuing to teach and to write on Christianity and art. He is currently researching the influence of the Reformation on Michelangelo’s later works.
Dr Sue Vaux Halliday recently retired as Professor of Marketing and Head of Department, after a career in business and academia. She publishes in internationally excellent academic journals on service innovation, relational branding and sustainability. She is honorary Research Fellow at KLC, and served as Acting Director, KLICE during Craig Bartholomew’s writing leave summer 2019-summer 2020. She serves on the Boards of IVP, SPCK and the Jubilee Centre, Cambridge. She also serves on the International Scientific Advisory Board of a Swedish universities collaborative research project into mainstreaming sustainable consumption niche practices.
Jack lives in Cambridge and works as advisor and senior researcher with the podcast network Noiser. A native of Hampshire in the south of England, Jack spent three years at Covenant Seminary in the United States, completing a Master of Divinity (MDiv) before moving to Cambridge. Jack also serves alongside the team at Sage Christianity, a cultural apologetics ministry based in St. Louis, Missouri. His research interests are usually at the intersection of philosophy, theology, and history. When not in the books, Jack can be found either playing football or cheering for the Arsenal.
Chip Hardy (PhD, University of Chicago) is associate professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he has taught since 2014. He is also the Senior Research Fellow for Old Testament at the Caskey Center for Biblical Text and Translation. His academic work engages with the cultural and historical background of the peoples of the ancient Near East, specifically the languages of the Bible and the religious literature related to biblical texts. He has authored and edited numerous books, articles, and essays—most recently, Exegetical Gems from Biblical Hebrew: A Refreshing Guide to Grammar and Interpretation (Baker Academic, 2019), The Old Testament: An Easy Introduction (published in Korean as 쉬운구약개론; Hong Sung Sa Ltd, 2020), The Development of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions (ANEM 28; SBL Press, 2022), “Like ʾIlu Are You Wise”: Studies in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures in Honor of Dennis G. Pardee (SAOC 73; Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2022), and Going Deeper with Biblical Hebrew: An Intermediate Study of the Grammar and Syntax of the Hebrew Bible (B&H Academic, 2023). He lives in Wake Forest, North Carolina with his wife and son.
Steve Harris is a systematic theologian who works across historical and biblical theology. His work is concerned to retrieve the riches of the history of biblical interpretation, as well as to encourage (and model) much fuller engagement by theologians with the biblical text – the very soul of theology. He is the author of God and the Teaching of Theology: Divine Pedagogy in 1 Corinthians 1-4 (Notre Dame, 2019) and Resurrection from the Dead: Figural Eschatology in Christian Scripture and Theology (Baylor, forthcoming). He serves as Pastor of Discipleship at Elim Church, Saskatoon, Canada. In addition, he is Research Scholar at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto; and Adjunct Professor of Theology at Horizon College & Seminary, Saskatoon, and Pentecostal Theological Seminary, Cleveland, TN.
Dr. Scott H. Hawley is a Professor of Physics at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his Ph.D. in numerical relativity from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000, after which he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Potsdam, Germany, where he studied black holes and gravitational waves via supercomputer simulations. His love of music led him to seek a teaching position at Belmont University in Nashville, where he has enjoyed teaching Audio Engineering Technology Students and applying his computer modeling skills to machine learning applications problems related to musical audio signal processing. He has authored journal papers on astrophysics, machine learning, and nonlinear optimization problems, and audio production, as well as book chapters and popular essays at the intersection of AI and Christian Theology. The latter emerged from a two-year Templeton-sponsored grant program in Oxford, UK beginning in 2017 exploring Christian formulations of “AI Ethics.” He is preparing a book on the history, philosophy and methodologies of classification, while still pursuing AI-audio research as a Technical Fellow with open-source collective Harmonai (a subsidiary of London-based Stability AI) and as a Senior Fellow of the Belmont Data Collaborative. He serves as a Founding Member of AI and Faith, on the board of AI Theology, and as a faculty board advisor to Montreal startup WaveShaper.ai.
Ross is CEO of a Christian social policy charity CARE (Christian Action Research and Education). Before joining CARE (www.care.org.uk) in 2021 he led the national children’s charity Spurgeons. HIs career began in an academic think-tank at the LSE – the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion – which was followed by a number of roles in public policy, research, campaigning, participation, and public affairs with London Councils, a trade union called Unison, a children’s charity called Action for Children, and the Children’s Commissioner for England. In 2005 he stood for Parliament for a constituency near where he grew up in South West Wales. Outside of work he has served on a number of national bodies and Boards, of both secular and faith-based organisations, and co-developed a systematic discipleship course on faith and work for young adults, which he led at his home church, All Souls Langham Place, for 9 years. Married to Melinda he loves rugby, cooking, and TV detective series.
Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker is editor-in-chief of ArtWay, www.artway.eu, a bilingual, ecumenical and international website about art and faith which she started in 2010. She has a doctoraal (cum laude) in musicology (University of Amsterdam) with minors in art history, philosophy and liturgical studies (Free University of Amsterdam). For many years she worked as a freelance editor, translator, researcher and writer. For 10 years she edited Lev, the journal of Dutch L’Abri. She edited the Complete Works of her father (art historian Hans Rookmaaker) and has written about popular music, church music, and the visual arts. She was the writer, editor and co-editor of four books in Dutch, one about popular music, one with discussions of artworks, a handbook for art in the church, and one about the Kuyperian tradition in the arts. She contributed to ca. twenty-five books and published many articles. In 2019 she was co-curator of Art Stations of the Cross in Amsterdam. She loves to sing and was part of choirs from Amsterdam to Geneva, Switzerland. She lives in Langbroek in the Netherlands, married to Albert, a proud mother of three and grateful grandmother of two.
Dr. C. Hugo Herfst, OblSB, served in Guatemala from 1992 to 2015 as church planter, translation supervisor, seminary professor and founder of a Christian Development Association involved in post-disaster reconstruction, community projects, as well as working alongside churches to provide support for families dealing with HIV/Aids, Seniors’ wellbeing, etc., He served on the International Committee for La Red del Camino para la Misión Integral, a network of Latin American missiologists and practitioners engaged in holistic ministries from 2006 to 2015. From 2015 to 2021, he taught at Redeemer University as Assistant Professor of Ministry. Hugo was part of the committee for the Scripture and Church Seminar. As part of his vision for contextualized theology, Herfst obtained his PhD in applied theology under Drs Samuel Berberián and José Ramiro Bolaños at Universidad Panamericana in Guatemala. His thesis proposed how to recover missional ecclesiology centred on the Kingdom of God through a conversation between theology, missiology, ethics and liturgy. He is passionate about the South-North dialogue and seeks opportunities to explore how Latin American theologians can both enrich and learn from the global Church. As the Latin American Coordinator for the Henri Nouwen Society, he seeks to promote Nouwen’s writings among Spanish Speakers. Hugo is a Benedictine Oblate with Mount Saviour Monastery in Pine City, New York. He coordinates the Spirituality Hub for KLC. He and his wife, Jackie, returned to Guatemala in 2021. They have five married children in four different countries.
Dr Peter Heslam is the Director of Faith in Business, Cambridge, and Research Associate of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide. He has research interests at the interface of business, faith and development, as well as in the life and work of the public intellectual, social entrepreneur and statesman Abraham Kuyper. Peter’s interdisciplinary scholarship reflects his academic background in social science, history, ethics, missiology and theology. After serving on the faculty of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC), he has held various appointments at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and as a Visiting Professor at various research institutions around the world. His recent publications include the anthology Abraham Kuyper on Business and Economics (Lexham, 2021). Peter is a Fellow of the SPES-Forum and of the Royal Society of Arts. He is also a Doctoral Supervisor at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies and is involved in parish work as a priest in the Church of England and is editor of its popular ‘God on Monday’ reflections.
Dr Fredrik Hildrum enjoys analysing mathematical problems, teaching and communicating science and truth. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at NTNU – The Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, where he explores topics within mathematical physics and inverse problems. Hildrum is also greatly interested in nondogmatic theology and technological advances.
Robby Holt is an ordained Presbyterian Minister who has served the church in various ways since 1991. Prior to a recent move to Birmingham, USA, he served as Theological Dean for the Chattanooga Institute for Faith, Work and Culture and as an adjunct teacher in New Testament at Covenant College. Robby has partnered with Craig Bartholomew, Aubrey Spears, Michael Rhodes, and Brian Fikkert to publish a few works. He is married to Chrissy. They have four adult children and four grandchildren – so far.
Fred has been married to Viv since 1971. They have two daughters and three granddaughters. In the 1970s when working with UCCF Fred’s interest in relating Christian belief to education increased. In the 1980s this took a particular focus while he was Director of Stapleford House Education Centre, in Nottingham. He was on the staff of the University of Gloucestershire 1985-2005 and completed a PhD exploring what people mean when they speak of ‘Christian Education’ (published by Paternoster in 1992). In 2005 he left the University staff as he was appointed Associate Pastor at Cambray Baptist Church in Cheltenham. Though not now employed he continues to be involved in pastoral care.
Andy has a PhD in Sustainable Development and Environmental Business Management and authored a University Textbook on the subject. He planted and pastored churches for over a decade and currently works for Compassion as Head of Neighbour Development for the UK. Andy has been the director of two companies including a Community Interest Company as well as a Christian Resource Company whose flagship product was teaching by Wayne Grudem’s on Christian Beliefs. He has served on two charitable Trust boards and loves to run long distances in the hills. His greatest passion is seeing the Church experience God’s presence through His Word and by His Spirit.
After completing postgraduate studies in physics and mathematics at the University of Cologne (Germany) and in theology at the Seminary for Evangelical Theology in Vaux-sur Seine (France), Lydia Jaeger obtained her Ph.D. in philosophy at the Sorbonne on the possible links between the concept of law of nature and religious presuppositions. She holds a permanent lectureship and is academic advisor and international relations officer at the Institut Biblique de Nogent-sur-Marne (France). She is a research associate of St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, a Faraday Associate of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion and an Associate Fellow at the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology (all based in Cambridge, UK). Lydia Jaeger is the author of seven books and numerous articles on the relation between Christianity and the natural sciences. She has edited (or co-edited) eight collective volumes; the most recent one is Lire la Bible aujourd’hui : Perspectives croisées sur les défis contemporains (Bibli’O, 2022 – the English translation is scheduled with Zondervan Academic in 2024). Website: http://ljaeger.ibnogent.org.
Danielle Jansen is a PhD candidate at the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology at the University of St Andrews and plans to graduate spring 2024. Her thesis topic is on the intersection of divine wrath and the atonement. Other areas of research include feminist and gender theology and the philosophy and psychology of emotion. Her next project will center on and how cognitive theories of emotion can inform our understanding classical accounts of divine impassibility. Dani is the chief editor of Blogos and a producer and co-host of the Logos Podcast. She is also the co-director of Logia St Andrews, which is an organization that exists to support and develop female students in Divinity and related disciplines.
Dru Johnson (PhD, University of St. Andrews) directs the Center for Hebraic Thought and has been a research fellow at the Herzl Institute (Jerusalem), Logos Institute (St. Andrews), and Henry Center (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School). He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Biblical Philosophy, Human Rites, and Knowledge by Ritual. He is ordained as an EPC minister and is cohost of the OnScript podcast.
Eric L. Johnson is Professor of Christian Psychology at the Gideon Institute of Christian Psychology and Counseling at Houston Baptist University. Prior to this position, he taught psychology, worldview studies, and Christian counseling for 28 years. Eric is currently working on the 3rd edition of Psychology & Christianity: Five Views, and he co-edited Evidence-Based Practices for Christian Counseling and Psychotherapy and Marriage: Its Foundation, Theology, and Mission in a Changing World. In addition, he has written over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles or chapters, as well as Foundations for Soul Care: A Christian Psychology Proposal and God and Soul Care: The Therapeutic Resources of the Christian Faith, and he was a co-author of Christian Psychotherapy in Context. His wife is Rebekah, they have two children and three grandchildren, and they love traveling.
Dr. Jennifer Brown Jones is an assistant professor of Old Testament, speaker, and author. She holds a PhD in Christian Theology from McMaster Divinity College. Jen is the author of Translation and Style in the Old Greek Psalter and Psalms 89–105: A Handbook on the Greek Psalter. Her current projects include a commentary on Zechariah (Zondervan), a Bible study for the church on the post-exilic period, research on speech ethics, and her blog. Jen is deeply committed to making academic work accessible to the church through her public speaking, teaching, and writing. She lives in the mountains of Utah, USA with her husband Casey, who is doing research in agroforestry. They have a grown son and grandson who live in Florida and a special needs son who lives near them in Utah.
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