Our boardmembers
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Júlio Adam
President
Theo Pleizier
Vice-president
Associate Professor Practical Theology at the Protestant Theological University in Utrecht, The Netherlands. PhD in homiletics. University lecturer in homiletics and pastoral care. Research includes the theology of the soul, digitality, grounded theory.
President of Societas Homiletica 2022-2024
Martin Laubscher
International Secretary
Martin Laubscher teaches homiletics at the North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa. He is former winner of the Andrew Murray prize, and former Editor-in-Chief of Acta Theologica. His current research interests include a) the theology and reception of Karl Barth; b) prophetic witness in the liturgy after the liturgy; c) auto-ethnographical musings on teaching and learning preaching and worship; and d) an intellectual biography of the preaching life of Allan Aubrey Boesak.
Zoltán Literáty
Zoltán Literáty is Professor of homiletics in Budapest (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary). PhD on Rhetorics and Homiletics. Research interests: contextualized preaching, missional preaching, empirical homiletics, church in the postmodern context. Reformeed minister in Érdliget and preacher of Christian hope in Christ every Sunday
Peter Meyer
Treasurer
PhD in homiletics. Director of a Centre for Worship, Spirituality and Church Music of the Protestant Church of Hesse and Nassau in Frankfurt, Germany (Zentrum Verkündigung, www.zentrum-verkuendigung.de). His responsibilities include coordinating the continuing education of preachers, providing homiletical coachings, and counselling church leaders on matters of worship development and preaching. Publications on empirical homiletics, language and preaching, didactics of and introduction to homiletics.
Angela Thomas
Marlene Ringgaard Lorensen
Professor in Practical Theology with special obligations in homiletics at the University of Copenhagen. Ph.d. in homiletics, co-author of the International Journal of the Homiletics, Visiting scholar at Duke Divinity School in 2012-13, responsible for further and continuing education at the Faculty of Theology in Copenhagen, including Master program in homiletics. Research interest include: preaching as dialogue cf. Dialogical Preaching: Bakhtin, Otherness and Homiletics (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2014), encounters between refugees and churches in Denmark and Europe, the tension between politics and preaching and the role of religion in the lives of converting refugees.
David Stark
David Stark is Director of the Kerygma Initiative and Homiletics Instructor at Palmer Theological Seminary at Eastern University. He is the author of Singing and Suffering with the Servant: Second Isaiah as Guide for Preaching the Old Testament (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022) and Preaching that Confronts Confederate Monuments: Religion, Anti-Racism, and United States Politics (T & T Clark, 2025). His research explores how preachers can better proclaim the liberating gospel in the twenty-first century by attending to contexts of domination and counter witness in scripture, by confronting white colonial narratives in their particular location, and by engaging with perspectives beyond their racial, cultural, economic, and national contexts. Stark currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Homiletics. He is an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church with leadership experience in rural and urban congregations.
Donyelle McCray
Donyelle McCray serves as Associate Professor of Homiletics at Yale Divinity School. Her research is on the spirituality of preaching.