At PTC since July 2022

Bendanglemla Longkumer from Nagaland, India, started teaching in theological institutions since 2004. Besides teaching full time, she has professional associations with different universities as external examiner of Masters (MTh) thesis of Senate of Serampore College (University), external examiner for PhD (Theology) at Sam Higginbottam University for Agriculture and Theological Studies, Allahabad. She is a member of the Research Enquiry Committee and supervising Ph.D (Theology) scholars at Martin Luther Christian University, Shillong. Dr. Longkumer has participated and presented papers in different ecumenical programs and also been a research fellow on a postdoctoral program at the Centre for South Asia Research, Bangalore. She is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at Pacific Theological College since July 2022.

• Participated and Presented Paper on “Theological Probings on Human Rights”, Webinar Organized by John Roberts Theological College, Shillong, 2021.
• Participated and Presented a Paper on “Struggle for Gender Justice: Women Rights and Child Rights in India”, Ecumenical Formation and Capacity Building organized by Commission for Dalits, Tribals and Adivasi, NCCI, 2020.
• Participated and presented a paper, International Workshop on Disability Theology for Asia, Yangon, Myanmar. A Joint Program of ATEM and PTCA 2018.
• Participated and Presented a Paper on “Land and Resources”, National Consultation for North India, organized by Senate of Serampore, 2018.
• Participated and Presented a Paper on “Biblical and Theological Perspectives on Human Sexuality and Gender Identities,” at Towards and Inclusive Church: Facing Transphobia and Homophobia, organized by Ecumenical Solidarity for HIV and AIDS (ESHA), NCCI, 2017.
• Participated and presented a paper on Church as an Inclusive Community: Disability Perspective, Pre-Assembly of the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI), Jabalpur. 2016.
• Participated and presented a Paper on, Globalization and Human Trafficking: A Northeast India Perspective, Commercial Tourism and Marginal Communities organized by Unity, Mission and Evangelism, NCCI, 2013.
• Participated as panellist, Empowering Local Congregation for Witnessing to Christ Today in India: Church’s Mission Perspective, organized by Unity, Mission and Evangelism, NCCI, 2011.

• Research Fellow at Centre for South Asia Research (CSAR), South Asia Institute of Advance Christian Studies (SAIACS), Bangalore, 2017.
• Participated, Faculty Training Program of South Asia, St. Aloysius College, Jabalpur, A Program of United Board, 2018.
• Prepared a Project and organized Women’s Writers Workshop to Board of Theological Education of the Senate of Serampore, 2017.
• Participated and Presented Research paper, Institute for Advanced Study in Asian Cultures and Theologies (IASACT), Hongkong, United Board. 2013.
• Participated in the Building Interfaith Community, Bossey Institute, Geneva. 2010.

• External Examiner MTh Senate of Serampore College (University)
• External Examiner Ph.D Sam Higginbottam University for Agriculture and Theological Studies (SHUATS), Allahabad.
• Supervising Ph.D. candidate at Martin Luther Christian University (MLCU), Shillong.
• Member of Research Enquiry Committee (REC), Martin Luther Christian University (MLCU), Shillong.
• Supervision (PhD)

“What Covid-19 Would Teach Us: A Thought from the Margins”, Journal of Tribal Studies, 2023. Forthcoming

“Theological Probings on Human Rights”, Indian Theological Journal, 2/3, 2022, Forthcoming.

Book Review on Rethinking Hope: Christian Eschatology Rediscovered, by K.A Abraham. Published by Christian World Imprints, 2021. PP. 162. Indian Theological Journal,1&2, 2021.

Hospitality as a Paradigm in Integral Mission: An Ecumenical and Indigenous Exploration. QUEST: Studies on Religion & Culture in Asia, [S.l.], v. 4, mar. 2020. ISSN 2415-5993. Peer Reviewed Available at: <https://www.theology.cuhk.edu.hk/quest/index.php/quest/article/view/81>.

“Land and Resources”, Clark Journal of Theology, IX/1 (January-June, 2019): 56-64.

“The Insignificant Talent Made Significant,” New Life Journal of Theology, 10/1 (January-June 2020).

“Family Health: Physical and Psychological,” Sower (March, 2020).

“Disabling Christian Discourse on Sin and Grace: An Ecclesiology Inclusive of People of Disability,” in Disability Theology from Asia: A Resource Book for Theological and Religious Studies, edited by Angeline Okola & Wati Longchar (Jointly Published by EDAN-WCC/PTCA/ATEM/SATHRI/YTCS), 2019.

“Struggle for Gender Justice: Women Rights and Child Rights in India,” New Life Theological Journal, 8/2 (July-December, 2018): 76-83.

“Patriarchy vis-à-vis Human Sexuality: Depatriarchalizing in the Theology of “Created in the Image of God,” in A Theological Reader on Human Sexuality and Gender Diversities: Envisioning Inclusivity. Edited by Roger Gaikwad and Thomas Ninan (Nagpur: NCCI, 2017), 25-33. Peer Reviewed.

“Biblical and Theological Perspectives on Human Sexuality and Gender Identities,” NCCI Review, CXXXVII/6 (July, 2017): 285- 292.

“A Woman’s Reflection on Partnership in God’s Mission,” Sandeshharika (2017):

“Practice of Sobaliba among the Ao- Nagas for a Contextual Christological Understanding in Northeast India,” Asia Journal of Theology, 28/2 (October, 2014): 228- 241.

“Globalization and Human Trafficking: A Northeast India Perspective,” NCCI Review, CXXXIV/05 (June, 2014): 289-294.

“Discovering the image of Jesus in Asia,” Samskriti, 1/1&2 (2014): 82-95.

Christ’s Unicity within God’s Salvific Universality: Reflections from Select Ecumenical Statements”, New Life Theological Journal, 2/1 (January-June, 2012):57-65.

“Witnessing to Christ in India Today: Mission from the Margins,” in Edinburgh 2010: Witnessing to Christ Today in India, edited by James Massey and Wati Longchar (Bangalore, Kolkata: BTESSC/SATHRI/SCEPTRE, 2011): 126-137.

“Empowering Local Congregation for Witnessing to Christ Today in India: Church’s Mission Perspective,” in Jesus Christ the light of the World: Revisiting New Delhi 1961 WCC Assembly on Mission and Ecumenism, edited by Solomon Rongpi and Wati Longchar (Nagpur, Kolkata: NCCI, SCEPTRE, 2011), 34-45.

“Weaving Christology from Tribal Women Perspective in Northeast India,” Journal of Tribal Studies, 15/2 (July-December, 2010): 29-45.