DJ Konz is an Honorary Associate of Alphacrucis. He is Lead Pastor at New Vine Church in Newcastle, and was previously Head of the School of Ministry and Theology at Alphacrucis. He has also been Executive Director of Advocacy at Compassion Australia. DJ's doctoral thesis from the University of Aberdeen was on the child in the thought of Karl Barth. His wider teaching and research areas include systematic and historical theology (especially Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer), as well as mission theology, public and political theology, and child theology. He is the co-editor of Theology, Mission and Child: Global Perspectives (Oxford: Regnum, 2014) and has published various essays and journal articles. He is a member of the Society for the Study of Theology (UK), the American Academy of Religion, and an Associate Fellow with the Higher Education Academy (UK). DJ is a member of the Theology and Society research cluster.