Professor and director of Institut d’étude et de recherche théologique en interculturalité, migration et mission (IERTIMM) and Institut protestant de théologie de l’Église unie du Canada (IPTEUC). Both are located in Montreal, Canada. He is also professor in theology at St. Paul University in Ottawa, Canada. His teaching and research are in the fields of intercultural pastoral work and theology of migration.

Anne-Marie Ellithorpe’s research focuses on themes of community and friendship, personal and civic, and engages with Indigenous relational wisdom. Her publications include Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship (Wiley, 2022) and the co-edited volume Multireligious Reflections on Friendship: Becoming Ourselves in Community (Lexington, 2023). Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, Anne-Marie holds a PhD from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Anne-Marie is research associate at Vancouver School of Theology, contract faculty at Douglas College, and currently co-chair of the Religious Reflections on Friendship seminar unit of the American Academy of Religion and President-Elect for the Pacific Northwest AAR Region.

Nevin Reda is associate professor of Muslim Studies at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Her research interests include poetics and hermeneutics of Qurʾanic narrative structure, Hebrew Bible and Qurʾan, spiritually integrative approaches to the Qurʾan, Islamic feminist hermeneutics, and Islamic ethical-legal theory. She has one published monograph, The al-Baqara Crescendo: Understanding the Qurʾan’ Style, Narrative, Structure and Running Themes (2017) and a co-edited volume (with Yasmin Amin), Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice: Processes of Canonization, Subversion, and Change (2020). Her articles include “Reform of Uṣūl al-Fiqh and Marriage: A Spiritually Integrative Approach,” in Musawah’s new project, Justice and Beauty in Muslim Marriage: Towards Egalitarian Ethics and Laws (Oneworld, 2022) and “Christian Practical Theology and Islam: Disciplinary Intersections and Opportunities for Growth” (IJPT 2025).

Néstor Medina is an Associate Professor of Religious Ethics and Culture. He engages ethics from contextual, liberationist, intercultural, and Post and Decolonial perspectives. He studies the intersections between people’s cultures, histories, ethnoracial relations, and forms of knowledge in theoethical traditions. He is currently studying the ethnoracial relations during colonial Latin America and the influence of religion. Among his publications, he is the author of Christianity, Empire and the Spirit (Brill 2018), On the Doctrine of Discovery (CCC, 2017), and Mestizaje: (Re)Mapping ‘Race,’ Culture, and Faith in Latina/o Catholicism (Orbis, 2009), the winner of the 2012 Hispanic Theological Initiative book award.

Prof. Dr. Sabrina Müller is the Chair of Practical Theology at the University of Bonn, Germany, and also serves as a project leader for the University Reseach Priority Program "Digital Religion(s)" at the University of Zurich. She co-chairs the Practical Theology Unit of the AAR and serves as a board member of ISERT. Her work focuses on digital, empirical, postcolonial, and feminist theologies, as well as church innovation across all areas of Practical Theology.Müller has authored six monographs (four in English), edited anthologies and journals, and publishes in leading theological journals. With research experience beyond continental Europe, she brings a strong international perspective to her teaching and scholarship.