Dr. Douglas Loney was appointed to the post of Vice President Academic and Dean of Tyndale University College, effective May 1, 2011. Born and raised in Grimsby, Ontario, Douglas Loney studied at Brock University (BA Hon) and McMaster University (MA, PhD). His doctoral dissertation was a study of the philosophical and religious dimensions of C.S. Lewis’ fiction, and his research interests since then have embraced the works of Lewis, Tolkien, Auden, Herbert, Chaucer and Shakespeare...
Sep 13, 2011•17 min•Ep. 64
Brian pastored a Wesleyan church for 12 years, resigned from that position to pursue "outside of the walls" type of ministry. He is a former student at Tyndale during the late 90's. Brian is married with two adult children and is currently leading 3 house churches composed primarily of people with no previous Christian background.
Aug 30, 2011•23 min•Ep. 63
Colin came to Tyndale in 2005 and spent time studying at the Seminary while running and organizing worship teams for the school's 3 weekly services and Sunday night services that run bi-weekly. Before coming to Tyndale, Colin received an undergraduate degree in Sociology from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. During his time there, Colin was heavily involved in leading and organizing worship at a number of campus ministries and churches. In 2009, Colin completed the Master's...
Aug 23, 2011•11 min•Ep. 62
Dr. Chapman is Assistant Professor of Research Methods in the Doctor of Ministry Program at Tyndale University College and Seminary. Mark has wide experience in social science research and teaching at the graduate level. He has worked as Director of Extension Education and Assistant Professor of Christianity...
Aug 16, 2011•16 min•Ep. 61
Dave graduated in 1984 and along with his wife Sandy, also an OBC graduate (1983), remained at OBC where they served for four years before moving to the mission field. From 1990 to 2002, Dave and his family were involved in Leadership Development as missionaries in Zambia with AEF/SIM. Dave now resides in Niagara on the Lake, Ontario and has returned to Tyndale University College...
Aug 09, 2011•15 min•Ep. 60
Dr. Clark brings to the position of Academic Dean a breadth of experience as a professor, administrator, professional counsellor and overseas missionary. Before joining the faculty in 2005 she served as Vice-Dean at McMaster Divinity College, where she taught counselling, pastoral care and field education. She has lectured widely in a number of countries and contexts and is a frequent conference and retreat speaker. Her ministry background includes eight years of mission...
Aug 02, 2011•25 min•Ep. 59
Dr. Santos has served as a pastor of Greenhills Christian Fellowship (GCF) for 16 years, 13 of which were in Manila and 3 of which are in Toronto. In 3 years, GCF-Toronto helped in planting 3 other churches in Peel, Vancouver, and Calgary, and is currently assisting in the development of 2 other church-plants in York and Winnipeg. Rev. Santos is an ordained pastor with the Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec. While serving as full-time pastor in Manila, Dr. Santos taught New...
Jul 26, 2011•18 min•Ep. 58
Toby and his wife Loretta were born and raised in Toronto. Having met as volunteers at an inner-city youth summer camp, the stage was set not only for their friendship but also for two lives dedicated to serving God in His mission for the world. Loretta, encouraged early on by her mother to consider missions as a vocation, set out as a young person serving in cross-cultural missions in Morocco and Niger. With Mother Teresa as her model, her desire to love God through loving people lead...
Jul 19, 2011•24 min•Ep. 57
Alan Anderson, Vice President; National Director for University Ministry for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship in Canada, graduated from Stanford University in 1980 with a B.S. in Biochemistry, received an MBA at the University of Washington in 1984, and a Master's of Divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in 1999. He finished his D.Min in leadership from Gordon-Conwell Seminary in 2007. Alan joined InterVarsity in the summer of 1984 as a full-time campus staff worker at the...
Jul 05, 2011•15 min•Ep. 56
Robert is from Northern Ireland and immigrated to Canada in 1974. He is a graduate of Tyndale (Ontario Bible College, BTh) and Wheaton Graduate School (MA in Intercultural Studies). For 12 years, Robert and his wife Sheila served as missionaries in theological education and leadership development with Africa lnland Mission (AIM) in Kenya and Tanzania. Robert was the personnel director of AIM Canada for 5 years and Director of MissionPrep, an inter-mission cross-cultural training...
Jun 28, 2011•20 min•Ep. 55
Dr. Bramer has been involved in a variety of ministries and has taught at all levels of education from elementary and high school through undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. After his graduate degree in educational administration, he did theological studies at Regent College, Institute for Christian Studies, and Tyndale culminating in his doctoral work in Christian education and psychospirituality, and his training in spiritual direction at Shalem Institute (Washington...
Jun 14, 2011•15 min•Ep. 54
Dr. Bruce Martin [PhD, University of Alberta] is Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church, Lethbridge, AB, and Adjunct Professor at Taylor University College. Dr. Martin's dissertation focused on the educational role of pastors in local congregations. Martin studied theology at Regent College and Acadia Divinity College. Previously he studied secularization and social change, earning MA and BA degrees at the University of British Columbia. Martin has been a pastor and teacher for...
Jun 07, 2011•21 min•Ep. 53
Murray Stiller is a Vancouver-based editor/sound designer/filmmaker. He began working in the film industry as a sound mixer and boom operator before becoming an editor and sound designer on documentaries, shorts, and feature dramatic films. Murray has been active directing, producing, writing, and editing short films that have been shown around the world and directed the feature film ‘Debating Christ’, ‘Nailin’ It To The Church: Religious Satire and the...
May 31, 2011•12 min•Ep. 52
Dr. Gary V. Nelson joined Tyndale on July 1, 2010 as President and Vice Chancellor after serving for ten years as General Secretary of CBM, the national and global work of Canadian Baptists. During those years, CBM experienced a striking capacity growth, expanding the organization’s global impact in the areas of leadership development, theological education, sustainable community development and the development of key educational resources for congregations across...
May 24, 2011•27 min•Ep. 51
Scottie May is an experienced church educator, editor and developer of materials for children’s ministries, and a writer of curriculum and articles dealing with Christian Education issues. Since 1998, she has been Associate Professor of Christian Formation and Ministry at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. She annually teaches courses in children's ministry, family ministry, spiritual formation, and formative teaching. She has worked as a Christian education service...
May 17, 2011•20 min•Ep. 50
Linda M. Cannell, Seminary Academic Dean and Professor of Christian Formation, is the Dean of North Park Theological Seminary. Previously, Linda served as the Lois W. Bennett Distinguished Professor of Educational Ministries at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and Director of the Ph.D program in Educational Studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She earned her EdD and MRE from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, a BA from the University of...
May 03, 2011•25 min•Ep. 49
Dr. Wong has taught at Tyndale University College since 2000. He has been teaching Preaching at Tyndale Seminary since 1997. He has had extensive pastoral experience at the Toronto Chinese Baptist Church in English ministry since 1982 and then when the church expanded to two locations in 1986 he pastored at the Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church before assuming his current ministry at Tyndale. In 1986 he was ordained with the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec. Dr. Wong has...
Apr 26, 2011•18 min•Ep. 48
Rob Patterson is Director, Church Relations, at Tyndale University College...
Apr 12, 2011•24 min•Ep. 47
Dr. Barb Haycraft is the VP, Student Life at Tyndale University & Seminary in Toronto where she leads Student Life for both the UC and the Seminary, as well as Counselling Services and the Career Centre. She works with students in areas of character, leadership, and spiritual formation. Listen Online
Apr 05, 2011•15 min•Ep. 46
Dr. Sherbino has been a faculty member at Tyndale Seminary since 1987, serving previously as Chair of the Pastoral Ministries Department, Coordinator of the Worship and Liturgy program and Dean of the Chapel. He is presently coordinating the program in Spiritual Formation. Dr. Sherbino has served in several congregations in Canada and is presently the Senior Minister of Cornerstone Community Church (Presbyterian) in Kleinburg. A commissioned officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, he...
Mar 29, 2011•14 min•Ep. 45
Dr. Gary V. Nelson joined Tyndale on July 1, 2010 as President and Vice Chancellor after serving for ten years as General Secretary of CBM, the national and global work of Canadian Baptists. During those years, CBM experienced a striking capacity growth, expanding the organization’s global impact in the areas of leadership development, theological education, sustainable community development and the development of key educational resources for congregations across Canada....
Mar 22, 2011•21 min•Ep. 44
Dr. Reynolds is the author of The Apocalyptic Son of Man in the Gospel of John (2008) and has published articles in Biblica, Neotestamentica, and Henoch. He is also author of “The Use of the Son of Man Idiom in the Gospel of John”, in Larry W. Hurtado and Paul L. Owen (eds.), “Who is this son of man?” The Latest Scholarship on a Puzzling Expression of the Historical Jesus (London: Continuum, forthcoming 2009). From 2007–2009, he was Honorary Research...
Mar 15, 2011•20 min•Ep. 43
Bob Morris has been involved in mission since the day he was born to missionary parents working with SIM in Nigeria. Since 1968 he has been associated with Interserve (Canada) and has spent 18 of those years living in India, Pakistan, and Cyprus. A major part of his role has been the development of strategies for placing professionals in countries where missionaries are not welcome. His responsibilities also included member care and assessment. His travels have taken him to Afghanistan...
Mar 08, 2011•21 min•Ep. 42
Dr. Bill Fietje became President of the Associated Gospel Churches in July 2008. Prior to this role, Bill served for five years as our Canada East Superintendent. Before joining the AGC team, he was the National Director of OMF International-Canada for eleven years. He and his wife Lois also served for two terms with OMF International in Thailand as church planters and developers. Bill also served as pastor of Forward Baptist Church in Cambridge, Ontario. In 1999, he earned his Doctor...
Mar 01, 2011•23 min•Ep. 41
Dr. Clark brings to the position of Academic Dean a breadth of experience as a professor, administrator, professional counsellor and overseas missionary. Before joining the faculty in 2005 she served as Vice-Dean at McMaster Divinity College, where she taught counselling, pastoral care and field education. She has lectured widely in a number of countries and contexts and is a frequent conference and retreat speaker. Her ministry background includes eight years of mission work in...
Feb 22, 2011•18 min•Ep. 40
Dr. Boers has taught for Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Conrad Grebel University College, Andover Newton Theological School, and the Canterbury College D. Min. program. Prior to teaching, he was a pastor in rural, urban church-planting and inner-city settings in the US and Canada. He is the author of six books: The Way is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago (translated into Korean in 2008), The Rhythm of God’s Grace: Uncovering Morning and...
Feb 15, 2011•21 min•Ep. 39
Charles Price has been the Senior Pastor of The Peoples Church in Toronto, Ontario, Canada since September 2001, with a weekly congregation of 3500 people. He has a weekly hour-long television programme, Living Truth, which is broadcast coast to coast in Canada each week, as well as in the United Kingdom, Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Korea and Japan. Charles Price came to Christ through a Billy Graham film at the age of twelve in Hereford, England. On leaving...
Feb 08, 2011•25 min•Ep. 38
"A good story can inform our lives. The 'greatest story ever told' can transform our lives." —Rob Styler This is the goal of Rob Styler, founder of 2nd Adam Performing Arts, the drama ministry of CJF Ministries. Rob is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute (Chicago), where he majored in Jewish and Modern Israel Studies. He was ordained by Associated Gospel Churches and served as a street evangelist and pastor in both New York City and Toronto. His current position is CJFM Director...
Feb 01, 2011•30 min•Ep. 37
Barry holds the formal title of the Reverend Canon Doctor in his role as the Rector or Senior Minister / Pastor of our church. His formal education includes a Doctor of Ministry (DMin), a Masters of Divinity (MDiv), and a general BA. It all started with his diploma in Emergency Paramedical Care and his early years as a Firefighter. His role description as Rector involves a focus on four primary ministry areas – Leading, Preaching, Teaching and Connecting with the diverse...
Jan 25, 2011•24 min•Ep. 36
Hans Peter Royer was born in 1962 in Schladming, Austria. He went to public school for 9 years, before learning to be a professional car-mechanic for 4 years. After a time in the army he pursued training to become an Austrian certified Mountain- and ski-guide, ski-instructor and cave-guide and worked in that field from 1981 until 1989 in Austria, in the US as well as in Australia. In 1987 he married Hannelore and they both attended Capernwray Bible-school in England in 1989. Since 1990...
Jan 18, 2011•29 min•Ep. 35
