Email: [email protected]
First Year at Gordon-Conwell: 2017
Expertise: Pastoral Leadership, Theology and the Arts, Spiritual Formation
Biography:
Dr. Wes Vander Lugt received an MDiv from Covenant Theological Seminary and a PhD in Theology, Imagination, and the Arts from The University of St Andrews. He has served as lead pastor of Warehouse 242 in Charlotte, theologian in residence at First Church Tulsa, and has been a visiting professor at Covenant Seminary, Cape Town Biblical College, and the University of St Andrews. At Gordon-Conwell, he serves as adjunct professor of theology and acting director of the Leighton Ford Initiative in Theology, the Arts, and Gospel Witness.
His publications include Beauty Is Oxygen: Finding a Faith that Breathes (Eerdmans, 2024), A Prophet in the Darkness: Exploring Theology in the Art of Georges Rouault (IVP Adademic, 2024), Living Theodrama: Reimagining Theological Ethics (Routledge, 2014), Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition (co-authored with Kelly Kapic), and Theatrical Theology: Explorations in Performing the Faith (edited with Trevor Hart).
In addition to teaching and writing, Wes is the co-founder of Kinship Plot, a nonprofit in Charlotte that cultivates resonant relationship of every kind. His wife Stephanie (MA, MSW, LCSWA) is Executive Director of Kinship Plot and a therapist with Perry Counseling, Healing, and Recovery. They have three children—Eden, Beata, and Chalmer—who enjoy the companionship of Hamish, a bearded dragon.
His wife Stephanie is an ordained Presbyterian minister, works as the Executive Director of Kinship Plot, and is pursuing an MSW degree at UNC Charlotte. They have three children—Eden, Beata, and Chalmer—who enjoy the companionship of Hamish, a bearded dragon.