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Ernst M. Conradie is a senior professor in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He works in the intersection between Christian ecotheology, systematic theology and ecumenical theology and comes from the Reformed tradition. He is the author of The Earth in God’s Economy: Creation, Salvation and Consummation in Ecological Perspective (2015), Redeeming Sin? Social Diagnostics amid Ecological Destruction (2017), and Secular Discourse on Sin in the Anthropocene: What’s Wrong with the World? (2020). He was the international convener of the Christian Faith and the Earth project (2007–2014), the leading editor (with Sigurd Bergmann, Celia Deane-Drummond, and Denis Edwards) of Christian Faith and the Earth: Current Paths and Emerging Horizons in Ecotheology (2014), and coeditor with Hilda Koster of The T&T Clark Handbook on Christian Theology and Climate Change (2019). He is responsible for registering the project “An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the ‘Anthropocene’” at UWC.

Cynthia Moe-Lobeda has lectured or consulted in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Oceania, and many parts of North America in theological ethics addressing matters of climate justice as related to race and class, economic globalization, moral agency and hope, public church, faith-based resistance to systemic injustice, and ethical implications of resurrection and incarnation. Her ethical approach weds Earth ethics to liberation theologies including eco-feminist theology.

Professor Moe-Lobeda is author or co-author of six volumes, co-editor of one, and author of over 50 journal articles and chapters in edited volumes. Her Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation, earned the Nautilus Book Award for social justice. She is under contract with Fortress Press to create a seven-volume series with accompanying web-based toolkits, called Building a Moral Economy (Ecological, Equitable, Democratic): Roadmaps for People of Courage. She is writing the first volume and engaging other authors to write the subsequent six.

In 2022, Moe-Lobeda accepted an invitation to serve as the 2022 Global Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of Religion at the MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society in Oslo. She is one of 3 North Americans appointed to a global team to advise the World Council of Churches and Lutheran World Federation on their work toward a more equitable and ecological international financial and economic architecture. She is a co-founder of Seattle University's Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability, and is Founding Director of the PLTS Center for Climate Justice and Faith. Moe-Lobeda was appointed theological consultant to the former Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and has served as a health worker/church worker in Honduras and as Director of the Washington, D.C. office of Augsburg College's Center for Global Education.

Awards she has received include the Provost's Outstanding Scholarship Award from California Lutheran University in 2019, the Outstanding Scholarship Award from Seattle University (College of Arts and Sciences) in 2013, appointment as Seattle University's Wismer Professor of Gender and Diversity Studies from 2011-2013, the Spirit of St. Francis Award from Earth Ministry, the Evergreen State Justice Award from the Lutheran Public Policy Office of Washington, and the Daniel Day Williams Award for Outstanding Work in Theology from Union Theological Seminary. Moe-Lobeda has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Tikkun Magazine, and Dialog: A Journal of Theology.

Moe-Lobeda holds a joint appointment at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, CA. She is a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty of the Graduate Theological Union, also in Berkeley. Having lived for many years in Seattle, she loves hiking in the woods and mountains, and relishes their life-giving beauty.