Ma. Marilou S. Ibita (PhD, STD, KU Leuven) teaches at the De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Her teaching, research interests, and publications focus on contextual biblical interpretation of the Bible (liberationist, ecological, trauma, etc.) in dialogue with human rights and sustainability. Her coedited books include Kindness, Courage, and Integrity in Biblical Texts and in the Politics of Biblical Interpretation: Festschrift Reimund Bieringer (Peeters, 2023) and Five Hundred Years of Christianity and the Global Filipino/a: Postcolonial Perspectives (Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024).