CV

Education

  • Ministry training, Old Catholic Seminary, Utrecht University, 2022.
  • PhD, Utrecht University, 2019.
  • MPhil in Religions & Theology, The University of Manchester, UK, 2009.
  • Drs (BA&MA) in Theology, Theological University Kampen, 2006.
  • University Preparatory Education Diploma (Gymnasium Alpha), Reformed Comprehensive School Randstad, Rotterdam, 1998.

Employment

  • Rector of the Old Catholic parish of St. John the Baptist, Gouda, 2023-present (assistant curate 2022-2023).
  • Executive secretary and programme manager, Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (NOSTER), Nijmegen, 2017-present.
  • Lecturer in Dogmatic Theology, Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 2021.
  • PhD candidate (promovendus), Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University, 2013-2017.
  • Project manager in Christian LGBT emancipation, LKP, Amsterdam, 2009-2012.
  • Teacher in Religious Education, Veluws College Walterbosch, Apeldoorn, 2009.
  • Teacher in Philosophy, Greijdanus College, Zwolle, 2007.
  • Lecturer in Pastoral Care, Reformed College of Higher Education, Zwolle, 2006.

Affiliations

I was previously editor of De Oud-Katholiek (2017-2022), managing editor of Michsjol (2010-2013) and gOdschrift.nl (2023-2015), and editor-in-chief of Radix (2005-2011); co-chair of the Steering Committee of the Gay Men and Religion Unit of the American Academy of Religion (2016-2020), chair of Prout – PhD Network Utrecht( 2015-2016) and member of the PhD Council and the Executive Board of NOSTER (2014-2015).

Memberships

  • International Association for the study of Religion and Gender (IARG), 2015-present.
  • Internationale Arbeitskreis für Altkatholizismusforsschung (IAAF), 2017-present.
  • Society for the Study of Theology (SST), 2009-present.

I was previously a member of the American Academy of Religion (AAR; 2013-2020) and a junior member of the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (NOSTER; 2013-2019).

Key publications

  • “Sexual and Religious Regimes of the Self in Dutch Discourses about Homosexuality: A Queer Theological Analysis and Alternative.” International Journal of Public Theology 12, no. 3-4 (2018), 353-378.
  • “The Pope, the Gays, and the Dutch: Dutch Secular Responses to Pope Benedict XVI When Homosexuality Seems at Stake.” Culture and Religion 19, no. 1 (2018), 40-61.
  • (Ruard Ganzevoort & Marco Derks), “Unnatural Ties: How Adoption Queers the Family.” In A Graceful Embrace: Theological Reflections on Adopting Children, eds. John Swinton & Brian Brock. Theology in Practice, Vol. 4. Leiden, etc.: Brill, 2017.
  • “‘If I Be Shaven Then My Strength Will Go From Me’: A Queer Reading of the Samson Narrative.” Biblical Interpretation 23, no. 4-5 (2015), 553-573.
  • (Marco Derks, Pieter Vos & Thijs Tromp), “Under the Spell of the Ring: The Role of Marriage in Moral Debates among Orthodox Reformed Christians in the Netherlands.” Theology & Sexuality 20, no. 1 (2014), 37-55.