Editorial Board

Sutrisna is the Principal of Bandung Theological Seminary, Indonesia. In 2018 he founded MMin Marketplace program in this seminary, which continues to grow and receive positive responses from Christian professionals and entrepreneurs. He and his colleagues in BTS also developed Vocatio Marketplace Fellows program to help young workers have a theological foundation for their work, develop spirituality in their work life, and understand their calling and God's mission through their work life. Previously he served students and graduates with a campus ministry organization, Perkantas (IFES in Indonesia), in various capacities for more than 20 years, including as the staff development secretary and vice general secretary of the movement.

Sutrisna earned his PhD in Educational Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS). His doctoral research, “The Development of Vocational Stewardship Among Indonesian Christian Professionals: Spiritual Formation for Marketplace Ministry” is published by Langham Literature. He holds an MDiv from Trinity Theological College, Singapore, and his Bachelor in Pharmacy from Padjadjaran University, Bandung.

Sutrisna is married to Lily Endang Joeliani, and they have two adult children. They live in Bandung, Indonesia.

L.T. Jeyachandran hails from Tamil Nadu in South India. He has a Master of Technology (MTech) degree in Structural Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Madras (Chennai). L.T. worked in several parts of India for 28 years as a Senior Civil Engineer with the Central Government. The last position he held was that of Chief Engineer in charge of 12 (now 13) states of India in the Eastern Zone while based in the city of Calcutta (Kolkata).

L.T. is a keen student of theology and comparative religions, and also interested in the study of Indian and foreign languages. He took early retirement from the Government in November 1993 to join RZIM in India and Singapore, where he worked until retiring in 2012. While there his ministry focused on engaging professionals to think through their beliefs and behaviour in the market-place. In that pursuit, he discovered the value of conducting open forums for people from various faiths. He continues to speak at forums for workplace and student audiences in India and abroad.

LT is a life member of the Institution of Engineers (India), the Indian Council of Arbitration and the Indian Concrete Institute.

L.T. and his wife, Esther, make their home in Pune, Maharashtra. They have two children and four grandchildren.

Wayne Park serves as chancellor of Fuller Theological Seminary, Texas campus. As a longtime resident of the Houston area, he brings to the role both on-the-ground experience and social research on the trends, economics, drivers, and spirituality that shape his great city. The son of a Korean-American immigrant entrepreneur, Dr. Park grew up learning to love both the marketplace and the church. Today, he is most comfortable straddling both worlds, seeking to connect Houston’s church leaders and marketplace professionals for the common good.

Before his appointment to the chancellorship, Park served as program director for Fuller’s De Pree Center (2020–2022) and as director of operations for Kingdom City Houston (2019–2022), a collective of more than a dozen churches and ministries that meet collaboratively in Houston’s Energy Corridor. He received his Doctor of Ministry from Fuller, where he focused on Faith, Work, Economics, and Vocation under Dr. Mark D. Roberts. He is ordained in the Evangelical Covenant Church and has served in leadership positions for national boards, commissions, and associations.

Dr. Park is married to Ashley and together they have two teenagers, Austin and Zoe. He enjoys long runs after church on Sunday with his Lab-Viszla, Bailey, along Houston’s bayou trails.

Gordon Preece is the Director of Ethos: Evangelical Alliance Centre for Christianity & Society, and Senior Policy Officer, Catholic Social Services Victoria. Church-wise Gordon was a youth worker, assistant minister and rector at several Anglican churches in Sydney and is now part-time Vicar at Yarraville Anglican in Melbourne. Previously, he lectured at Morling Baptist College Sydney and was Director of the Centre for Applied Christian Ethics at Ridley Melbourne and Director of Macquarie Christian Studies Institute.

Most recently Gordon was Executive Director of Urban Seed, a ministry of hospitality and advocacy for marginalised and homeless people based behind Collins St Baptist, Melbourne. Gordon is an international leader in the field of workplace theology and ethics, being on the executive committee of the Theology of Work Project and also theological consultant to the Marketplace Ministry Stream of the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. He has a passion for exegeting Scripture and culture and equipping Christians for their life in the world. He is author/editor of 12 books and of Zadok Perspectives.

Currently a Ph.D. candidate in Theology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Gustavo’s research is centered around the relationship between labour precarity and its implications for the field of theology. His professional journey took him from Brazil to Canada in 2015, where he embarked on a master’s degree in theological studies within the Marketplace Theology concentration at Regent College.

Since then, his academic pursuits have been complemented by his active engagement in various roles within the academic community. In 2017, he played a pivotal role in the translation and launch of the Regent College’s ReFrame course in Brazil. From 2018 to 2022, he served as the program manager for Regent’s Master of Arts in Leadership, Theology, and Society(MALTS) and his commitment to the intersection of theology and the workplace led him to represent the College at the Lausanne Workplace Forum in Manila in 2019. He has also served as a member of the Steering Committee for Regent Exchange from 2021 to 2022 and co-taught the course “Calling, Context, and the Church” with Dr. Rhonda McEwen in 2023.

His professional journey extends beyond academia, with a decade of experience in both corporate and nonprofit settings. As a management consultant, he led projects in strategy and operations across various industries and company sizes. He has also been a board member for JustWork in Vancouver and contributed to the Society for the Anthropology of Work in the United States.

Currently, Gustavo holds multiple roles, including a Research Affiliate at the Vancouver School of Theology, a member of the Editorial Board for the Theology of Work Project, a member of the Diversity, Equity and Justice committee at the Canadian Theological Society, and a collaborator to the Worship for Workers Project at Fuller’s Mouw Institute of Faith and Public Life.He lives in Surrey, BC, alongside his wife, Andrea, and their cherished dog, Mokha.

Katherine Leary Alsdorf is the Founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for Faith and Work at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and for New City Fellows in Raleigh, NC. She currently serves as the Faith and Work Senior Advisor with Redeemer City to City. She worked with Tim Keller to write Every Good Endeavor, which has become a basic text for the growing faith and work movement. Prior to Redeemer, Katherine worked for 25 years in high tech, both in New York and California. She served as President and CEO of Pensare, Inc., an online management education startup in Los Altos, CA. Prior to that she was President and CEO of One Touch Systems, Inc., a corporate communications hardware/software company, in San Jose, CA. In the early 90s she was President of Private Satellite Network in New York City. She has also worked in numerous consulting, sales, and marketing roles primarily in the technology sectors. She earned her MBA from University of Virginia, Darden School. She currently serves on the boards of The Carver Project and Theology of Work project, as well as on advisory boards to WP313, Kern Family Foundation, and Seattle Pacific University’s Center for Faithful Business. She is adjunct faculty at Regent College. Katherine and her husband, John Alsdorf, live in New York City and are active members of Redeemer Presbyterian Church.

Albert M. (Al) Erisman is an author, speaker, and university teacher after two lengthy roles business and the academy. He is author of The Accidental Executive: Lessons on Business, Faith and Calling from the Life of Joseph (2015) and The ServiceMaster Company: Managing Tension between People and Profit (2020). In the spring of 2021, he taught an honors class in business at Fordham University with a colleague.

Alistair Mackenzie is a Teaching Fellow at Laidlaw College - Christchurch, New Zealand. He began his working life in his family's timber mill and then as a truck driver while completing a science degree. After becoming a Christian and completing theological training, he spent 23 years in pastoral leadership of three Baptist churches in New Zealand and was also involved in the leadership of Servants to Asia's Urban Poor (a mission and community development agency).

Alistair has served as a staff worker with the Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship, and done postgraduate study on the theology of vocation and work. He authored Where's God on Monday?, SoulPurpose: Making a Difference in Life and Work and Just Decisions: Christians Ethics Go to Work. He was the founding director of the former Faith at Work, New Zealand, has been employed as a mission consultant with the Baptist Churches of New Zealand and participated in the Lausanne Committee's Marketplace Ministry Issue Group.

Alistair is married to Alison and involved with South West Baptist Church. They have two adult children, Catherine and Christopher, and also two lovely granddaughters Ruby and Rylee. Alistair enjoys playing guitar and blues harp with a band, armchair rugby and the odd round of golf (with an emphasis on the odd!).

Kara Martin is an author, lecturer, mentor and Head of Storytelling for The Different Co. responsible for Communications, Research and Organisational Theology.

An Adjunct Professor with Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Kara teaches on Leadership and Church Conflict. She also teaches on A Biblical Theology of Work for colleges in Sydney, Malaysia and Los Angeles.

Kara has long been working in the faith–work integration space with two books specialising in the area: Worship: How to Use your Work to Worship God, and Worship 2: How to Flourish to Work. She is a co-author of Keeping Faith: How Christian Organisations can Stay True to the Way of Jesus. She was also a co-editor and contributor to Transforming Vocation: Connecting Theology, Church and Workplace for a Flourishing World.

She has a podcast called Worship on the Way to Work.

With an extensive corporate and not-for-profit career, Kara has had experience in media, business communications, people and culture, business analysis, policy and advocacy. She and her husband run a home maintenance small business based in Sydney, Australia.

Kara is married to David, and they have two young adult children.

William G. Messenger is the Executive Editor of the Theology of Work Project. Previously, Will was the Director of the Mockler Center for Faith and Ethics in the Workplace at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary from 1999 to 2008, and an adjunct faculty member there. He created and led the seminary’s doctoral and master’s degree programs in workplace leadership and business ethics. He serves as an adjunct faculty member of Gordon College and previously taught as an adjunct at Laidlaw College Graduate School (New Zealand), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Holy Cross College (Massachusetts).

Will’s Board of Directors service includes ArQule Inc., Life/Work Direction, and The Call to Work. He serves on the Lausanne Movement Advisory Board for Workplace Ministry. He has worked as a sales representative at IBM, corporate finance associate at Goldman Sachs, consultant at McKinsey & Co., and vice president of sales and marketing Advanced Metabolic Systems. Will is ordained in the Episcopal Church and formerly served as pastor of Charles River Church in Boston and assistant rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Belmont, MA. He was awarded a B.S. in Physics from Case Western Reserve University, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, a Master of Divinity from Boston University School of Theology and a Doctor of Ministry from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He and his family live in Boston, MA, USA.

John is retired from a career in business, including 29 years in Human Resources at Pfizer Inc in New York City. His primary responsibilities were in training and development positions. He also was Director of a major project to develop a proprietary HR and Payroll Database System, and was an early adapter and visionary in using the company’s intranet to deliver information and other services directly to employees. With his wife Katherine, John is a member of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York City.

Attended Carleton College, Northfield, MN, majoring in Political Science (AB, 1963). Graduate school first at the East-West Center, Honolulu, HI (MA, 1967), followed by Union Theological Seminary (M.Div., 1970).

Cara Beed is married to Clive Beed, a retired Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Melbourne. Both Cara and Clive are former Honorary Fellows, CACE, Ridley Anglican Theological College, University of Melbourne and the Australian Catholic University. The Beeds are joint authors with topics decided through shared study, prayer and discussion.

Married in 1961, they have a married son, a married daughter and two grandsons. Cara and Clive worship in St. Peter's Anglican Church, Box Hill, Melbourne and enjoy family, friends and community life.

Randy Kilgore is Senior Writer and Workplace Chaplain for Desired Haven Ministries and www.madetomatter.org. Serving as a workplace chaplain for more than a decade, Randy received his M.Div. in 2000, from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary after a twenty-plus year career in business, most of which was spent in senior human resource management positions. Serving three Governors on state education commissions, Randy was also part of a coalition of human resource managers honored for their work on worker/childcare issues; and was part of a team receiving one of the federal government's first-ever series of workplace literacy grants.

As a writer and chaplain, Randy has released six volumes of workplace Bible studies, and two books: Made to Matter: Devotions for Working Christians; and Talking About God in the 21st Century Workplace. His writing also appears regularly in Our Daily Bread, as well as magazines and online publications.

Randy and his wife, Cheryl, have two "nearly grown" children, Kathryn and Ethan; they attend Grace Chapel in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Sean McDonough has taught New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary since 2000. Prior to that, he taught at the Pacific Theological College in Suva, Fiji, where he had served as the Chair of the Biblical Studies Department and as a lecturer in New Testament. He has degrees from Harvard College (BA), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (MDiv., ThM), and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland (PhD). He is a Sunday School teacher and occasional preacher at First Congregational Church in Hamilton. He is also a speaker for Medair, a Christian relief organization based in Switzerland. His research interests (in addition to the theology of work) include creation/cosmology in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, Hellenistic Judaism, Greek philosophy and religion and the Book of Revelation. His latest book is Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (Oxford University Press, 2010). Dr. McDonough's personal interests include supporting Boston sports teams, spending time with his family, traveling and hiking.