Ryan LaMothe is a professor of pastoral care and counseling at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. He is past president of Society for Pastoral Theology. Over the past 26 years he has published over 190 articles and 10 books. In 2017 Ryan received the Springer Publishing Award (Transforming the World One Article at a Time). His most recent book is A Radical Political Theology for the Anthropocene Age (2021). Later this year Lexington Press will publish another of Ryan’s books— Pastoral Care in the Anthropocene Age: Facing a Dire Future Now. 

Educated at the Universities of Bristol and Manchester, Elaine Graham was Grosvenor Research Professor of Practical Theology at the University of Chester from 2009 until her retirement in July 2021. She now holds the title of Professor Emerita. Between 1998-2009 she was Samuel Ferguson Professor of Social and Pastoral Theology at the University of Manchester. She is the author of several major books, including Transforming Practice (1996), Representations of the Post-Human (2002) and Words Made Flesh (2009); with Heather Walton and Frances Ward, Theological Reflection: Methods (2nd Edition, 2019); and with Zoe Bennett, Stephen Pattison and Heather Walton, Invitation to Practical Theology Research (Routledge, 2018). Her most recent work considers public theology as a form of Christian apologetics: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Public Theology in a Post-Secular Age (2013) and Apologetics without Apology: speaking of God in a world troubled by religion (Cascade, 2017). She was President of the International Academy of Practical Theology between 2005-2007. In July 2021 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Her current research interests include an examination of the life, thought and legacy of the Cambridge philosopher and theologian Don Cupitt, as well as continued interest in public theology and post-secularity.

Hee-Kyu Heidi Park is an associate professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Counseling in the Christian Studies Department at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. Before Ewha, she was an assistant professor of pastoral theology at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH. She also taught as an instructor at her alma mater, Claremont School of Theology, and Lexington Theological Seminary. 

Her current research focuses on the practical theological methodology of boundary experiences. Through a series of qualitative studies on Korean and Korean American experiences complexified by colonization, the Cold War, and the rapid embracement of neoliberalism, her research investigates the collective trauma and spirituality resulting from these social dynamics. The postcolonial concept of spectrality is foundational for her research methodology. 

She is currently serving as the vice-chair of the steering committee of the Society for Pastoral Theology and a member of the steering committee of the Practical Theology Unit of AAR. At IAPT, she is serving as a member of the local and executive committees. 

Mary Elizabeth Moore is Dean Emerita and Professor Emerita of Theology and Education, Boston University School of Theology. Her current research focuses on the integral relationship of sacrality and tikkun olam, or repair of the world, through the study of ecological and justice practices and the theological and existential issues underlying them. As a practical theologian, she draws on research into the practices, theories, and poetics of cultural and racial diversity, ecological justice, interreligious relationships, liberative theologies, education, leadership, peacemaking, white privilege, gender/sexuality, and healing/social transformation. Her recent book publications include Teaching as a Sacramental Act and the editing or co-editing of Deep Understanding for Divisive Times; A Living Tradition: Critical Recovery and Reconstruction of Wesleyan Heritage; and Children, Youth, and Spirituality in a Troubling World. Her recent articles include “Responding to a Weeping Planet: Practical Theology as a Discipline Called by Crisis”; “The Hidden Force of Gender and Sexuality: A Pedagogy of Truth-Seeking”; “Embracing Sexuality and Gender: Toward Radical Love”; “Sacred, Revolutionary Teaching: Encountering Sacred Difference and Honest Hope”; “Disrupting White Privilege: Diving beneath Shame and Guilt”; “Encountering Dignity: Building Human Community”; and “Deep Breathing in a Moving World.” She also enjoys the delight of writing poetry.

Zack Walsh, Ph.D. is an Independent Researcher and Consultant who provides strategic foresight to organizations negotiating the transition to an equitable, post-carbon, post-growth world. He completed his doctorate in Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology. He holds an M.A. in Buddhist Studies from Foguang University, Taiwan and a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Denison University. He has recently worked with the One Project, Post Carbon Institute, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Institute for Ecological Civilization, and the Courage of Care Coalition. His publications explore the intersections between social justice, eco-justice, and systems change with a focus on post-capitalism and the commons.

Chammah J. Kaunda is a Zambian scholar currently working as an Assistant Professor of World Christianity and Mission Studies at the United Graduate School of Theology, Yonsei University, South Korea. He is also an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His current research interests focus on Pentecostalisticity, decoloniality, poetics of mysticality and materiality, and the intellectual history of African theological ideas. Kaunda draws on various theoretical approaches including critical Africana theories, African philosophy and theology, decolonial theology, black liberation theology, missiology, ecumenism anthropology, political, gender and ecological theologies. He has authored over 100 and still counting peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in internationally renowned journals and book publishers. He also co/edited over 6 volumes, authored 1 book and co-authored 1 book. He has been a guest editor for various academic journals. In 2018 he was recognized in the list of the top 10 young most published researchers under 40 at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His recent co/edited include World Christianity and COVID-19: Looking Back and Looking Forward (Springer, 2022 – forthcoming); Christianity and COVID-19: Pathways for Faith (Routledge, 2021); Genders, Sexualities, and Spiritualities in African Pentecostalism: 'Your Body is a Temple of the Holy Spirit' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020); African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions: Celebrating John Samuel Mbiti’s Contribution (Lexington Books, 2020). 

Annemie Dillen is Full Professor in Pastoral and Empirical Theology and Vice-Dean for Education at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven. Her research focuses on theology regarding families and children, domestic violence, religious education in families, empirical theology, and fundamental practical theological reflections.

In addition to articles in journals and edited volumes, she has published a number of books (as author and editor), such as, to name a few: Dillen, A. & S. Gärtner, Discovering Practical Theology: Exploring Boundaries, Leuven, Peeters, 2020; Dillen, A., Het gezin: à-Dieu? Ethisch, theologisch en godsdienstpedagogisch denken over gezinnen vandaag (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, Nieuwe Reeks), Brussel, KVAB, 2009 and Dillen, A., Ongehoord vertrouwen. Ethische perspectieven vanuit het contextuele denken van Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, Antwerpen-Apeldoorn, Garant, 2004. In 2017 she published, with Judith Cockx and Bernard Spitz, Een kind beleven. Over kinderwens, zwangerschap, geboorte en pril ouderschap (Acco, 2017). 

Annemie Dillen was the editor of a number of English volumes: Dillen, A. & A. Vandenhoeck (ed.), Prophetic Witness in World Christianities. Rethinking Pastoral Care and Counseling (International Practical Theology, 13), Münster, Lit-Verlag, 2011; Dillen, A. & D. Pollefeyt (ed.), Children’s Voices. Children’s Perspectives in Ethics, Theology and Religious Education (betl), Leuven, Peeters, 2010; Dillen, A. (ed.), When ‘Love’ Strikes. Social Sciences, Ethics, and Theology on Family Violence, Leuven, Peeters, 2009.