Moses Penumaka serves on the faculty at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary of California Lutheran University. He has been serving as the Director of Theological Education for Emerging Ministers at PLTS of California Lutheran University since 2008. He graduated with my Doctor of Theology degree at Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA in 2006. He worked with Ted Peters, Jane Strohl, Rosemary Radford Ruether and Surjit Singh on my dissertation on Communicatio Idiomatum and ahum Brahmasmi, a comparative study on Martin Luther’s and Adhi Shankara’s understanding of the nature of God. He was a mission developer for South Asian Ministry in Fremont, California before joining the faculty as assistant professor of Contextual Theology and Director of TEEM. He was born in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh in India and served as an ordained pastor for the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church in India for three year, as the national general secretary for the Student Christian Movement of India affiliated to World Student Christian Federation for six years, and as Director for the GTU Asia Project for three years. Moses has a rich experience in teaching and administration. His areas of teaching are Systematic Theology with a focus on Christology, theology from the margins, and Asian and Oceanic cultural and faith traditions, religion and interfaith studies.