Breath and Bone

IAN SHAW is CEO of the Opal Trust, a Christian ministry which serves churches in the Majority World through resourcing them with Bibles, evangelical books, and literature. He has spent over twenty years in leadership positions in theological education, including as Provost of Union School of Theology, Bridgend, Wales, and Associate International Director of Langham Scholars.

IGOR AMÉSTEGUI is associate director for Latin America - Langham Preaching. He holds a degree in psychology and has been a staff worker and later secretary general of the Comunidad Cristiana Universitaria (a movement affiliated to IFES). He has also worked as a clinical psychologist and university teacher. He and his wife took courses in biblical studies and cross-cultural missions at All Nations Christian College.

QAISER JULIUS earned his PhD from Melbourne School of Theology, Melbourne, Australia. He is the director of Open Theological Seminary, Lahore, Pakistan, and the Pakistan country coordinator for Langham Preaching.

COLLIUM BANDA is a Langham Scholar who studied at the Theological College of Zimbabwe, the University of South Africa (Unisa) and at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, where he completed a doctoral thesis in 2016 entitled Empowering Hope? Jürgen Moltmann’s Eschatological Challenge to Ecclesiological Responses in the Zimbabwean Context of Poverty. He has held a church pastorate and military chaplaincy in Zimbabwe and lectures on systematic theology and theological ethics at the Theological College of Zimbabwe. His research interests include Christian doctrines in the African public space, African traditional religions, African indigenous knowledge systems and Christianity in African contexts of poverty.

Dr Dănuț Mănăstireanu (PhD, Brunel University London) is a Research associate fellow at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge and a board member of the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative.

Dr Peter Penner (DTheol, UNISA, South Africa) is a lecturer at the Akademie für Kirche und Gesellschaft, Austria. He is Doctoral Studies Coordinator at CEEAMS.

BRIAN WINTLE holds a PhD from the University of Manchester and has been principal of the Union Biblical Seminary, Pune, as well as the first regional secretary of the Asia Theological Association (India chapter). He was the general editor of the South Asia Bible Commentary (2015) and is currently serving as the academic coordinator of the PhD degree programme in Christian Studies offered by the Centre for Advanced Theological Studies, Sam Higginbotham University of Agriculture, Technology and Science (SHUATS), Allahabad.

FREW TAMRAT is vice-president of the Evangelical Theological College of Addis Ababa. He holds a Master’s in New Testament Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and a PhD in Christian Higher Education Leadership from Columbia International University. He is a member of one of the largest evangelical denominations in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Kale Heywet Church, and is highly involved in training church leaders. He serves the Lausanne Movement, as a member of the Global Theological Education Steering Committee and the Theology Working Group. He is the country coordinator for Langham Preaching in Ethiopia and a fellow of the Global Associates for Transformational Education.

LAS G. NEWMAN is the global associate director for regions for the Lausanne Movement. He is a member of the International Fellowship for Mission as Transformation and former president of the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology (CGST) in Kingston, Jamaica. He holds a Master of Arts (MA Hons) in History from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and a PhD in Mission History from the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS)/University of Wales. He has spent more than thirty years working with students in the campus ministry Students Christian Fellowship and Scripture Union in Jamaica, and the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES).

C. ROSALEE VELLOSO EWELL is a Brazilian theologian from São Paulo. She earned a PhD from Duke University (USA) and taught for seven years in a cross-confessional seminary in Londrina, Brazil. She is the author and editor of various books and articles and the New Testament editor for the forthcoming Latin American Bible Commentary. She currently serves as executive director of the Theological Commission for the World Evangelical Alliance and lives in Birmingham, England.

PAUL SWARUP is a Langham Scholar who holds a ThM from Princeton and a PhD from Cambridge. He is ordained in the Church of North India and is currently presbyter in charge of the Cathedral Church of the Redemption in the Diocese of Delhi. He was a major contributor to the South Asia Bible Commentary, and one of the Old Testament editors for that volume.

ANDREA ZAKI STEPHANOUS is President of the Protestant Churches of Egypt, the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services, and the Fellowship of Middle East Evangelical Churches. He teaches at Evangelical Theological Seminary, Cairo, Egypt, where he lectures on political religions and the theological foundations for social change. He has a PhD in Religions and Theology from the University of Manchester, UK.

DWI HANDAYANI, a Langham Scholar, is a graduate of Asia Graduate Theological Seminary, Manila. She has taught at the Bandung Theological Seminary, Indonesia, since 2005 and is also a trainer in the Langham Preaching programme. Her published writing includes Spiritual Formation for Today’s Indonesian Churches through the Psalms of Lament, International Journal for Religious Freedom; Lament Psalms and the Persecuted Churches in Asia, in Light for Our Path: The Authority, Inspiration, Meaning and Mission of Scripture (ATA); and the chapter (co-authored) A Doxological Framework for Interpreting Discrimination, Persecution and Martyrdom in Freedom of Belief and Christian Mission (Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series).

ATHENA E. GOROSPE holds a PhD in Theology (Old Testament) from Fuller Theological Seminary, USA and is Associate Professor at Asian Theological Seminary in the Philippines where she teaches in the areas of Old Testament, Hebrew language, and Theology. As an Asian scholar-activist, her research interests lie in the area of Scripture’s interface with philosophy, culture, and social transformation.

GAIL ATIENCIA has served as a missionary in Colombia with the Latin America Mission since 1976. Initially seconded to IFES, she and her husband have, since 2001, supported the formation of Bible expositors through escuelitas in Colombia and have worked with Langham Preaching in various countries in Latin America. She has also served as coordinator of simultaneous interpretation teams at international gatherings of IFES and the Lausanne Movement. Gail holds a BA and an MBA from the University of British Colombia, a Diploma in Christian Studies from Regent College, Vancouver, and has taken numerous courses in adult education.

MARK MEYNELL is Associate Director (Europe & Caribbean) of Langham Preaching and part-time Whitehall Chaplain for HM Treasury, HMRC & the Cabinet Office. He is an ordained minister in the Church of England, and was previously on the senior ministry team of All Souls Church, Langham Place, London, UK. He also has experience in theological education having taught at a small seminary in Kampala, Uganda for four years after being in student ministry for churches in the UK. Mark and his wife, Rachel, have two children.

Greg Scharf is Professor of Homiletics at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. He previously served in pastoral roles at All Souls, Church, Langham Place, London; Knox Church, Toronto; and Salem Evangelical Free Church in Fargo, North Dakota. He is author of Let the Earth Hear His Voice: Strategies for Overcoming Bottlenecks in Preaching God's Word. Dr. Scharf has facilitated preaching seminars in many countries under the auspices of Langham Preaching. He and his wife Ruth have three married sons and five grandchildren.