Jacqueline Bussie, Ph.D., University of Virginia, is Associate Professor of Religion and Director of the Forum on Faith and Life at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. She is author of The Laughter of the Oppressed: Ethical and Theological Resistance in Wiesel, Morrison, and Endo (London: T & T Clark, 2007). Her teaching and writing explore ethics, theology, and responsible engagement with the world.
Charles L. Campbell, Ph.D., Duke University, is Professor of Homiletics at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. His work focuses on the biblical, theological, and ethical dimensions of preaching. Among his publications are Preaching Fools: The Gospel as a Rhetoric of Folly (with Johan Cilliers; Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012) and The Word Before the Powers: An Ethic of Preaching (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002).
L. Juliana M. Claassens, Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary, is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. She is the author of Mourner, Mother, Midwife: Reimagining God’s Delivering Presence in the Old Testament (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2012). Her work focuses on transformative theologies of resistance and hope.
Chaya Ostrower, Ph.D., Tel-Aviv University, teaches cognitive and developmental psychology and pedagogy at Beit Berl College, near Tel-Aviv, Israel. Her research interests include Holocaust education and the study of humor. Her book, If Not for Humor, We Would Have Committed Suicide (Jerusalem: Yad-Vashem, 2009), published in Hebrew, will soon be published in English.
Michael Patella, OSB, S.S.D., École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, is Professor of Theology and Rector of St. John’s School of Theology in Collegeville, Minnesota. Among his publications are Word and Image: The Hermeneutics of The Saint John’s Bible (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2013) and Angels and Demons: A Christian Primer of the Spiritual World (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2012).
