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Dr. Moussounga Keener (PhD, University of Paris 7) is the Formation Ministries coordinator at Asbury Theological Seminary. Originally from Congo Brazzaville, she has also taught French at Eastern University and continues to teach it at Asbury University. She wrote her dissertation related to African-American women’s history, has published various articles in Dictionary of African Christian Biography, Africa Study Bible and other articles on women in Africa and on other subjects. She coauthored with her husband Craig Impossible Love: The True Story of an African Civil War, Miracles and Hope Against All Odds, a story of her war experience and her and Craig’s romance. They also coauthored Reconciliation for Africa, a booklet on ethnic reconciliation currently used in many countries in Africa. Both in Francophone Africa and in the United States, she has publicly shared her experiences of war and reconciliation. Medine and Craig have 2 adult children and 2 grandchildren.

Dr. Keener's Book, Impossible Love

Dr. Keener, Dictionary of African Christian Biography

Mboungou-Mouyabi, Émilienne (née  Niangui Loubota)

Ndoundou, Daniel

Moussounga, Jacques

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Dr. Ralph Lee has a PhD in the Study of Religions from SOAS. He has worked in Ethiopia for a total of 16 years teaching both chemical engineering and theology in Ethiopia. Most recently he was teaching at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s Holy Trinity Theological College, from 2008-2014. Since returning to the UK he has taught and supervised research at a number of promiment research institutions including SOAS, Cambridge Theological Federation (Wesley House, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies), as well as the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. Ralph has developed teaching on many aspects of contemporary Africa, with a focus on the interaction between Christian traditions, and those traditions with Islam.

Ralph specialises in Orthodox Christianity, and in particular Ethiopian Orthodoxy, his research focusses on the contemporary and historical literature, theology, traditions and religious practices of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church. He has a particular interest in the relationship between Ethiopian Christian thought and the broader Christian world, and also in indigenous Ethiopian thought as expressed in biblical commentary, hymns, and other works, and on reform movements within Eastern churches.

Rev. Dr. Calum Samuelson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stockholm School of Eastern Christian Studies (Sankt Ignatios College) and a Research Associate at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS). His current research focuses on the extempore genre of Ethiopic spiritual poetry known as Qǝne (ቅኔ), and he has previously taught theology to hundreds of university students in Chicago and Nairobi. As an ordained minister in the Methodist tradition and a board member of the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative (LOI), he makes regular efforts to communicate his research for the benefit of the Church through participation in various liturgical and ecumenical contexts.

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Voicing the Mystery: An Introduction to the Qene Tradition of the Täwahado Orthodox Churches

Dr. Lee's Publications

Dr. Samuelson's Publications

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