I am a theologian, pastor, and author who is passionate about equipping congregations and individual Christians to fully live out their missional calling in the contemporary post-Christendom Canadian context.
Although formally trained as a systematic theologian, both my experience as a pastor and my dissertation work on the theologies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Stanley Hauerwas have left me convinced that theology is properly a practical discipline. As a result, my research, writing, and teaching have traversed the fields of systematic theology, theological ethics, homiletics, pastoral theology, liturgics, and missional leadership – all in the interest of seeing theological reflection brought to bear on the concrete realities facing the church.
I am an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament within the Presbyterian Church in Canada, but I currently live into my vocation by teaching theology, ethics, and preaching at Providence Theological Seminary in Manitoba, Canada. I also presently have the honour of serving as the President of the Canadian-American Theological Association.
