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Taylor Croissant is an ordained minister in The United Church of Canada, currently serving at Southminster United Church in Lethbridge, Alberta. He has previously served pastoral charges in Northern Spirit Regional Council, and as an ordained supply minister with the United Church’s global partner church, the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea.
Susanne Abbuhl is a retired United Church minister, now living in British Columbia. She holds a Th.D. in the Old Testament from the University of Toronto, and previously served on the General Council’s Theology and Faith Committee for six years, helping compose A Song of Faith.
Phyllis D. Airhart is Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at Emmanuel College and cross-appointed to the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She is the author of A Church with the Soul of a Nation: Making and Remaking the United Church of Canada (winner of the 2016 book prize from the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion and shortlisted for the 2015 Canada Prize in the Humanities from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences) as well as a number of other books and articles on religion in Canada.
Sandra Beardsall is Professor Emerita of Church History and Ecumenics at St. Andrew's College in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and an ordained minister in The United Church of Canada. She has served pastoral charges in Newfoundland, Labrador, and Ontario, works and researches in Canadian church history, and participates in local, national, and global ecumenical relations.
Jordan Cantwell was the 42nd Moderator of The United Church of Canada. Grateful to live in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on Treaty 6 territory and on the Homeland of the Métis, Jordan currently serves in team ministry at St. Martin’s United Church and is part of the Anti-Racism Common Table of The United Church of Canada.
Susan Chisholm is a minister, educator, and lover of life who has lived and worked in the Arctic, East Africa, and the east coast of Canada. She is continually amazed by the abundance in self and community, and the many and diverse ways it comes to light.
Rob Fennell is a United Church minister and Academic Dean of Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches Historical and Systematic Theology. He is the author of The Rule of Faith and Biblical Interpretation: Reform, Resistance, and Renewal (2018) and 31 Short Spiritual Practices: Getting (Re)started in a Daily Spirituality of Gratitude and Contentment (2021).
Adrian Jacobs is Keeper of the Circle (principal) at Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, the national Indigenous ministry training centre of The United Church of Canada in Beausejour, Manitoba. He is Ganosono (deer lodge) of the Turtle Clan, Cayuga Nation, of the Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario. Adrian is also the father of three sons and two daughters, and grandfather of two grandsons and one granddaughter.
William S. Kervin is Associate Professor of Public Worship at Emmanuel College of Victoria University and the Toronto School of Theology at the University of Toronto. Ordained in the United Church, he has served congregations in the Maritimes and Ontario, and has been active in the production of its worship resources.
YunJung Kim is a doctoral graduate of Emmanuel College in the area of postcolonial feminist theology and migration theology. She currently serves in ministry at Downsview United Church in Toronto.
Andrew Kinoti Lairenge serves in ministry at Chalmers-Wesley United Church in Quebec City, Quebec. He has a Bachelor of Divinity from St. Paul’s University Limuru Kenya and a Master of Theological Studies from Drew University in New Jersey. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student in the New Testament and Early Christianity at McGill University. Andrew was ordained in the Methodist Church in Kenya before coming to The United Church of Canada.
Andrew O’Neill has served in full-time ministry in The United Church of Canada since completing his Ph.D. in theology in Edinburgh, Scotland. Andrew currently serves at St. Paul's United Church in Riverview, New Brunswick. Andrew is also a sessional instructor for Atlantic School of Theology, teaching courses in theology, ethics, worship, and pastoral ministry. His book, Tillich: A Guide for the Perplexed, is available from Bloomsbury Publishing as part of its series on prominent theologians.
Bill Richards was Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at the College of Emmanuel & St. Chad, Saskatoon Theological Union, from 2000 to 2015. He has been a minister in the United Church since 1978 and a priest in the Anglican Church since 2007, serving congregations in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario. His academic interests focus on the letters, hymns, and poetry of early Christianity, particularly those from the circle around Paul, and the socio-political circumstances that gave rise to such texts.
Don Schweitzer is McDougald Professor of Theology at St. Andrew’s College in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He is an ordained minister in The United Church of Canada, and the author of Contemporary Christologies (Fortress Press: 2010) and Jesus Christ for Contemporary Life (Cascade Press: 2012).
John H. Young is an ordained United Church minister who currently serves as the Interim Principal of Emmanuel College in Toronto, Ontario. Previous to this role he served as the Executive Minister of Theological Leadership in the General Council Office. He has written a number of book chapters and is the co-author, with the Rev. Dr. Catherine MacLean, of Preaching the Big Questions: Doctrine Isn’t Dusty (Toronto: United Church Publishing House, 2015).
