Nindyo Sasongko is a Ph.D. candidate in Systematic Theology and a Teaching Associate at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in New York. He also serves as Theologian in Residence at the Manhattan Mennonite Fellowship in the City of New York.
A native of Indonesia and an ordained Mennonite minister, Nindyo brings over a decade of pastoral experience, specializing in youth and liturgical ministries. He began his pastoral journey after earning a Bachelor of Theology from the Southeast Asia Bible Seminary in Malang, East Java, Indonesia, in 2003.
In 2009, he was selected for the Young Anabaptist-Mennonite Exchange Network (YAMEN!), a program run by the Mennonite Central Committee and Mennonite World Conference. From August 2009 to June 2010, he served as an intern youth minister at Meri Berhan Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Following this, he returned to his hometown of Kudus, Indonesia, to continue his ministry with the Muria Christian Church of Indonesia.
Nindyo earned a Master of Arts in Transforming Spirituality from Seattle University’s School of Theology and Ministry in 2015. Upon completing his degree, he was honored as the inaugural Elias Pohan Visiting Research Scholar Fellow at the Jakarta Theological Seminary in Indonesia. This fellowship allowed him to teach undergraduate and graduate courses and publish his research. His academic interests include systematic and constructive theology, spirituality and mysticism, and liberation theologies.
He has presented at numerous national and international academic conferences and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Toronto Journal of Theology, Exchange, Ecclesiology, International Review of Mission, Dialog: A Journal of Theology, Feminist Theology, Political Theology, and Ecumenical Review. In 2019, he received a Doctoral Fellowship Award from the Louisville Institute in Kentucky, which he held until 2021. Additionally, he is a co-founder and moderator of Theovlogy Channel, a platform for theological and religious discussions.
Currently serving as Theologian in Residence at the Manhattan Mennonite Fellowship, Nindyo was also appointed to the Mennonite World Conference’s Creation Care Climate Task Force (2022–2025). He is a student member of the Mennonite Scholars and Friends organizing committee and part of the Asia Anabaptist Mennonite Theology Task Force (2025–present). In July 2022, he delivered a speech at the closing ceremony of the Mennonite World Conference General Assembly in Indonesia. In early June 2025, he led a plenary session on Apocalyptic Theology at the Believers Church Conference titled Radical Renewal? – Witnessing to a “New Heaven and a New Earth” in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The manuscript will be published as two separate articles: “Toward a Tehomic Discipleship: Reclaiming Oceanic Imaginaries and the Problem of ‘No More Sea” in Light of Pacific and Javanese Wisdoms” in Vision: A Theology for Church and Theology and “A Radical Renewal without Sea?: Toward a Tehomic Trinitarian Theology from Pacific Perspectives” in the coming anthology.
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