List of Contributors

Anne Austad is Associate Professor of Practical Theology at VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway. She is a theologian and former chaplain in the Church of Norway. She wrote her PhD dissertation on the experiences and meaning making of post death contact, studied from the perspective of grief and worldview processes. Her research focuses on extraordinary experiences, existential themes, and pastoral care. She has published several articles together with Tormod Kleiven and Marianne Rodriguez Nygaard about healing experiences and practices related to resources from Christian faith and practice.

Hans Austnaberg is Professor of Practical Theology at VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway. He is a former missionary to the Lutheran church in Madagascar. His PhD dissertation focused on the revival movement and he has published a book on preaching in Madagascar, in addition to several articles on this church. His recent publications include "Leading through the sermon" in the Scandinavian Journal for Leadership & Theology (2023) and "How do Shepherds in the Malagasy Lutheran Church Describe their Way into Ministry?" in the Journal of Theology for Southern Africa (2022).
Frank Hoare is a Columban missionary priest. Originally from Ireland, he first came to Fiji 1973, where he learned the Fijian and Hindi languages and worked in parishes. Through his studies, he obtained a licentiate degree in psychology from the Gregorian University in Rome, a Master's degree in social anthropology from the London School of Economics and a Doctor of Divinity in practical theology at CTU Chicago. He taught at the Pacific Regional Seminary in Suva for 5 years, and is currently in charge of the Columban Formation House in Suva. His most recent book is The Turning Wheel: Columban Missionaries in Fiji, 1952Fiji, -2017 Tormod Kleiven is Professor in Science of Diakonia at VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway, former social worker, and deacon. He did his PhD work related to List of Contributors Mission Studies 40 (2023) 307-308 sexual misconduct in a church context from a diaconal perspective titled "Intimacy Boundaries and Power of Trust." He has published several articles with Marianne Rodriguez Nygaard and Anne Austad about healing experiences and practices related to resources from Christian faith and practice.
Cara Pfeiffer is a fourth year PhD Intercultural Studies student at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, where she specializes in children at risk studies. She worked for eight years coordinating a peacemaking, conflict resolution, and restorative justice program in inner-city Los Angeles schools while also serving as a family, child, and youth minister in a trilingual inner-city congregation in Long Beach, CA. Pfeiffer holds a master's degree in biblical studies from the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and has co-pastored a multiethnic Quaker congregation with her husband, Joseph, since 2015. She and her husband have 5 children between the ages of 5 months and 14, a sibling-set they came to know through their congregation and have adopted from the foster system.

Marianne Rodriguez Nygaard
is Associate Professor of diaconal studies at VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway, where she leads the project "Healing Experiences and the Lived Body." She is a former nurse and deacon. She wrote her PhD dissertation on deacons' knowledge creation in their professional work in the Church of Norway. Together with Tormod Kleiven and Anne Austad, she has published several articles on healing experiences, Christian faith, and practice.
David H. Scott is Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies and Children at Risk, and is also the Accreditation Liaison Officer for Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He previously worked in a variety of roles for Viva, a UK-based Christian charity that connects Christian ministries globally so that they can coordinate and collaborate. He has special interests in mission with street-living children and refugees in Africa. He is also one of the authors of the Lausanne Occasional Paper on Children at Risk.