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For ten days in January I was part of a course titled “Christian Unity in Rome: Anglican Ecclesiology and Ecumenism,” co-sponsored by The Living Church magazine (whose contributor list includes many Wycliffe faculty and graduates) and Nashotah House Theological Seminary. The event was timed to coincide with the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which falls each year between the feasts of the Conversion of St. Peter and the Conversion of St. Paul (January 18-25). Our group of 25 pilgrims included two Wycliffe graduates: the Rev. Sam Adams, former Senior Student and now a priest in the diocese

On January 20, five Wycliffe Alumni gathered online with current students for Wycliffe’s second Speed Mentoring event. The results were as dynamic as anticipated. Five Alumni volunteers from three distinct categories – church leadership, parachurch ministries, and academia – shared about their Wycliffe experience, calls to ministry, subsequent careers, and offered up lessons learned along the way. Students were divided into three groups and each group spent 20 minutes with mentors from one category before “visiting” another. Sixty minutes or so later, the event ended with current students

Wycliffe College is currently seeking to fill the position of Assistant Registrar. Reporting to Registrar, the Assistant Registrar is responsible for supporting the Office of the Registrar ensuring that the students’ registration experience and their interaction with Student Services is a positive one through the implementation and management of all student enrollment activities. This is a high-impact role with opportunity for growth and development. Learn more about this opportunity here. Thank you for sharing with your networks.

From Insight magazine, to discourse on topics ranging from angels, demons and jinn to global Christianity, Wycliffe College invites you to draw near. Learn more in the January 2025 Word @ Wycliffe.

Read about CIECR's successful December research gathering, submit your Hilchey nominations, prepare to enjoy the winter 2024 digital edition of Insight magazine, and mark the date for January's Theology Pub Night. Learn more in your December 2024 Word @ Wycliffe.

On Thursday December 12, over 70 church researchers and denominational leaders gathered at Wycliffe College to discuss church research, current Canadian church trends, and the future of the Canadian Church. The occasion was the second annual gathering hosted by Wycliffe College's Canadian Institute for Empirical Church Research (CIECR). Keynote speakers Dr Gina Zurlo and Dr Sam Reimer did not disappoint. Dr Gina Zurlo Dr Zurlo opened the day with a quote that gathered resonance as the day unfolded: “Christianity exists between the universal claim of its message and the particular way of

TORONTO—The Board of Trustees of Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce they have signed an agreement with Kristen Deede Johnson, PhD, to become Wycliffe’s eleventh principal. Currently Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Western Theological Seminary (an evangelical and ecumenical seminary in Holland, Michigan), as well as G.W. and Edna Haworth Professor of Educational Ministries and Leadership, Dr Johnson will take up her role in Toronto on or around July 1, 2025. In a letter to the search committee, Dr Johnson wrote of coming to faith in Christ in

It is with great sadness that we received the news of the resignation of Justin Welby as the Archbishop of Canterbury. We are chiefly sad because of the consequences of the Archbishop’s inaction over reports of horrific and appalling abuse of children under the care of the Church. It is a scandal that undermines, even contradicts, the gospel that in Christ we can discover our true dignity and freedom from the power of sin. And the damage it has brought to individuals and families, not least in the retraumatizing investigation and disclosures, is truly heartbreaking. But we are sadder still

On Saturday November 9, eighty women along with two host churches gathered online to hear Dr Marion Taylor unpack the legacy of Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1828 -1896). A prolific author, Rundle Charles is one of the hundreds of long-forgotten women who authored a wide variety of devotional and educational books for adults and children, including commentaries on the Bible. Dr Taylor discovered Rundle Charles and other lost foremothers of the faith when one of her students asked her whether she could do a paper on an early woman interpreter of the Bible. Dr Taylor didn’t know whether women had

Pittsburgh In mid-October researchers from Wycliffe’s Canadian Institute for Empirical Church Research (CIECR) made the six-hour drive to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to participate in the prestigious annual joint conference hosted by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) and Religious Research Association (RRA). Our four-day visit began with a lively conversation, hosted by The Association of Theological Schools (ATS), about how research can contribute to theological post-secondary education. We were heartened to hear about the growing partnerships between theologians and