Biographical note

David V. Esterline is Director of the Institute for Cross-Cultural Theological Education and James G. K. McClure Professor of Theological Education at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. His works include More than a Story: Nine Studies for Women on the Parables of Jesus, which he coauthored, and two chapters in Opting for Change: A Handbook on Evaluation and Planning for Theological Education by Extension. Ogbu U. Kalu was Henry Winters Luce Professor of World Christianity at McCormick Theological Seminary prior to his death in 2008. He published many books, including Power, Poverty and Prayer: The Challenges of Poverty and Pluralism in African Christianity, 1960-1996 and, as editor, History of the Church in the Third World: Vol. III, African Christianity: An African Story, plus more than 150 articles in journals and edited volumes.