Professional Experience
Background & Expertise
Current
Pastor, Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church
As a full-time pastor at Stirling, I have the privilege of working with a team of paid ministers, as well as many lay leaders. Stirling is a congregation passionate about revealing God's love to one another and all our relations. (Stirling even has a minister dedicated to peace and justice!) Check out the church's website.
Current
Associate Teaching Faculty, University of Alberta, St. Stephen's College
SPRIT 316 - Sexual Ethics in a Multi-Faith Context (each fall term). We explore liberative strands of sexual ethics and queer theology in many of the faith traditions shaping Canadian society. See course listing and syllabus in the catalogue here.
SSC 5154 - Intersectional Theology (MTS students, offered every other year)
Spring 2024
Adjunct Instructor, University of Waterloo
PACS 321/GSJ 331 – Gender in War and Peace
PACS 620 - Gender in War and Peace
This course uses gender (and its intersections with other social locations such as: race, class, dis/ability, age, culture) as a critical lens for analyzing experiences of and theory related to war and peace to better understand differential patterns of suffering and violence, and to seek peacebuilding that transforms rather than reinscribes gender inequality, sexism, and binaries.
Winter 2021
Adjunct Instructor, Victoria College, University of Toronto
VIC169H1S - Ethical Living in a Pluralistic World. This course was made up of 20 students in the Gooch Stream (focused on Philosophy and Ethical Citizenship) of the Vic One program (an award winning program for first year students that features small, seminar style classes). The course engaged beliefs about peace and how those beliefs relate to different views of ethical living, especially in relation to contemporary political, social, economic, and environmental issues. Along the way, we also asked the basic questions of ethics, including, for example: Are human beings free to make ethical choices? What roles do context and history play in our capacities for moral discernment? What difference do relationships of power make?