Faculty Bio

University of Sheffield (UK)

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (Cand.)

2000

Providence Theological Seminary (MB)

Master of Divinity (M.Div.)

1992

Providence College (MB)

Bachelor's Degree (B.A.)

1984

Present

• Providence University College, Faculty (since 1993)
• Providence University College, Academic Dean

Past

• Providence Theological Seminary, Adjunct Faculty (1992-1994)
• Providence College, Adjunct Faculty (1991-1993)
• Steinbach Bible College (Steinbach, MB), Adjunct Faculty (1991-1993)
• Salvation Army Winnipeg Citadel (Winnipeg, MB), Youth Pastor (1986-1987)
• Providence College, Assistant Director of Development (1984-1986) 

Professional Associations

• Fort Garry EM Church, Minister (1987-Present)
• Didaskalia, Book Review Editor (2002-Present)
• Ministerial Examining Committee, Evangelical Mennonite Conference, Secretary (2002-Present)
• Board of Ministers and Deacons, Evangelical Mennonite Conference (2001-Present)
• Ordination, Evangelical Mennonite Conference (1988)

Book and Book Chapters

• "Inner-biblical Exegesis: Hebrew Bible” in The Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation. John Hayes ed. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998.

Peer Reviewed Articles

• "The Bible.” Part 1 of a series on the EMC Statement of Faith and Church Practises” The Messenger.  46/19  November 2008
• "Our Anabaptist Heritage” in The Christian Life, a joint publication of the EMC and EMMC, 2004.
• "Echoes of Time and Space: The Ark and the Exodus in 1 Samuel 4–6.” Did 2001, 12 (2): 59–80
• "An Unwilling Pacifist.” The Messenger. November, 2001

Articles

• "Ordinary History: The Life and Work of Gösta W. Ahlström, 1918-1992.” Did, 1994, 5(2):3-12.
• "Inner-biblical Exegesis: Hebrew Bible” in The Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation. John Hayes ed. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998.

Reviews

• G.W. Ahlström. The History of Ancient Palestine from the Palaeolithic Period to Alexander’s Conquest. With a contribution by Gary O. Rollefson, ed. Diana Edelman. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993. With maps, illustrations and indices, 989 pp. in Didaskalia 5, 1994
• Arthur F. Holmes. Building the Christian Academy. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001. v 122 pp. Did 15.1 
• Marshall D. Johnson. Making Sense of the Bible: Literary Type as an Approach to Understanding.. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. xi 161 pp. Did. 15.1
• Alan J. Hauser and Duane F. Watson, eds.A History of Biblical Interpretation - Volume 1: The Ancient Period, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003, xxi +536 pp. in Didaskalia 16.1

Workshops & Presentations

• 2015 Provf Talks: Cameron McKenzie Free at Last: Accepting Personal Responsibility in the Context of God's Will
• "Fleurs de Mal, Femme Fatales and Children's Illustrated Bibles" Presented at St. Benedict's Table Idea Exchange, Aqua Books, Winnipeg, April 10, 2010.
• "Fleurs de Mal, Femme Fatales and Children's Illustrated Bibles" Presented at The Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, April 2010.
• "Evil By Design: Foreign Women, The Femme Fatale and Illustrated Children's Bibles" Presented at the Interantional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Rome, July 2009.
• “From The Gothic to The Garden: The Visual Transformation  of the Bible in Popular Children’s Culture” Presented at The Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Boston, November 2008.
• “Putting YHWH in his place: Bakhtin, the Chronotope and Spatial Trialectics “ Presented at The Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Boston, November 2008.
• “The Gothic to the Garden: The Domestication of the Bible in Popular Children’s Culture”, Presented at The Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association Annual Joint Meeting, San Francisco, March 2008.
• “A Counter point to Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation” A paper presented at After Atheism: A Faculty Forum Providence College, February 2008.
• “Pastoring on Sacred Ground: The Bible in the Life of the Church,” Four papers presented to the National Ministerial of the Evangelical Mennonite Conference, Winnipeg, December 2007.
• “Who can stand before YHWH?: The Ark and Mt Sinai in Chronotopic Perspective”.
• “Beyond The Grammatical Historical Method: Biblical Studies Pedagogies for the 21st Century”, Presented at the ABHE Annual Meeting, Orlando, February 2007.
• “Hermeneutical Implications of The Integration of Sociology and Biblical Studies” A paper presented with Val Hiebert at the Providence Theological Seminary Faculty Colloquium, April 2006.
• “Social Science, Faith and Hermeneutics”, A workshop presented with Dennis Hiebert and Val Hiebert, at Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, May 2006.
• ‘The Old Testament and Sociology: A Pedagogical Proposal’, A Paper presented with Val Hiebert at “Scripture and the Disciplines”, Wheaton College, Wheaton Illinois, May 2004.
• ‘Philippians 2 as a Model for Incarnational Church Planting’, a Paper presented at the EMC Conference Ministerial Meeting, July 2003 (This was a national conference with Church leaders attending from across Canada)
• 'Our Anabaptist Identity: A Proposal for and National Education Strategy for the EMC’, A Proposal presented at the annual Convention of the Evangelical Mennonite Conference, July 2003.
• 'Planting the Seed: A Biblical Model For Growing Leaders in the Congregation.' Presented at the SBC Leadership Conference, March 2003 (National conference with church leaders, from multiple denominations, attending from across Canada)
• "Spatiotemporality and the Ark Narrative", Presented to the Sheffield Centre for Biblical, Literary, and Cultural Studies, University of Sheffield,  March 2000.
• "Bahktin's Chronotope and The Ark Narrative", Presented to the Sheffield Centre for Biblical, Literary, and Cultural Studies, University of Sheffield, April 1999.

Editorial Work

• 2002 - Present: Didaskalia, Book Review Editor
  2003: Co-edited and Published The Christian Life, 4th ed., EMC and EMMC