I am a believer with a strong commitment to the Christian faith. Though I often say I am Anglican in my heart, over the years I have participated in many different denominations. My undergraduate school was an Evangelical institution, while my graduate school had a strong Reformed leaning. St. Michaels, my doctoral alma mater, is a Catholic school, but is also a member of the Toronto School of Theology, which co-mingles Anglicans, Presbyterians, United Church, and others. While moving from school to school, I have been a member of a Salvation Army church, a Baptist church, an Episcopal church, and most recently a non-denominational community church. All of this is not because I hold a fickle faith, but because I tend to focus on the historic elements of the faith that unite all Christians. I consider myself a traditional Christian. I hold a central faith focused on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and how those acts are the centre point of God’s plan to reconcile the world and all creation. I assent to the traditional creeds of Christendom, such as the Nicene creed. I have experienced many different Christian faith traditions, and while surely not all of them are equally valid, I have learned to respect them in so far as they lead their followers into the most important aspect of Christian practice: to follow Christ.
