BSc (Hons) (Witwatersrand, South Africa), PhD (Queen’s, Kingston), MCS (Regent College), PhD (St. Andrew’s, Scotland)
Ross Hastings teaches in the areas of the theology and spirituality of mission, pastoral theology, and ethics. He has served as a pastor in Kingston, Ontario; Burnaby, British Columbia; and Montreal, Quebec. For eleven years, he was the senior pastor of Peace Portal Alliance Church in White Rock, BC. He has earned two PhDs, one in organo-metallic chemistry at Queen’s University in Kingston, and the other in theology at University of St Andrews in his native Scotland. His theological dissertation is a comparative study of the trinitarian theology of Jonathan Edwards and Karl Barth and is in the publication process. Dr. Hastings lost his first wife Sharon to cancer in 2008; he has two adult children. He was recently married to Tammy Carrillo and together they now have five children. He enjoys sport—especially rugby, cricket, soccer, and squash—as well as music of varied genres.
Fri May 8, 11 am: Communion Service: "Creation in Communion"
After working as an English teacher and then as an Anglican clergyman, Peter moved to Portugal in 1983 with his wife Miranda to establish and run A Rocha’s first field study centre and bird observatory. In 1995, the work was given over to national leadership and Peter and Miranda moved to France where, together with a group of colleagues, they oversaw the establishment of two other centres, while travelling to resource the growing global movement of Christians active in nature conservation. A Rocha field projects are now operational in twenty countries. Peter is currently based in the UK and his work has a particular focus on emerging projects in Southeast Asia and the USA.
Tues May 5, 9:30 am: “Earthing the Gospel”
MA, PhD (Cambridge))
An ordained pastor in the Anglican Church of England, Chris Wright spent five years teaching the Old Testament in India, and thirteen years as Academic Dean and then Principal of All Nations Christian College in England. In 2001, he was appointed International Director of the Langham Partnership International, a group of ministries originally founded by John Stott and committed to the strengthening of the church in the Majority World through fostering leadership development, biblical preaching, literature, and doctoral scholarships. Chris was the Chair of the Lausanne Theology Working Group from 2005-2011. He is also an Honorary Vice-President of Tear Fund, a UK-based international Christian development agency. He and his wife Liz live in London and have four adult children and nine grandchildren.
Tues May 5, 11 am: “The Goodness, the Glory, and the Goal of Creation in the Old Testament”
Tues May 5, 7:30 pm (free public lecture): “Creation Care and the Great Commission: What is the Scope of our Biblical Mission?”
BA (Wheaton), MA (Johns Hopkins), MA (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), PhD (Syracuse)
Loren Wilkinson joined the Regent College faculty in 1981. He had previously been an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Seattle Pacific College (1972–1977) and a Fellow at Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship (1977–1978). His teaching interests include Christianity and the arts, philosophy, and earthkeeping. His popular Creation, Wilderness, and Technology course takes place on a summer boat trip. He has written many scholarly and popular articles developing a Christian environmental ethic and exploring the human relationship to the natural world in its environmental, aesthetic, scientific, and religious dimensions. Loren lives on Galiano Island with his wife Mary-Ruth. They have two adult children and two grandchildren.
Tues May 5, 1:30 pm: “Practicing Creation Care”
BA (Gordon College), MDiv (Gordon Conwell)
Ed Brown has been involved in the creation care movement for fifteen years. He is the Director and CEO of Care of Creation, an environmental missions organization, and serves as the Lausanne Senior Associate for Creation Care for the Lausanne Movement. He served as Chief Operating Officer for Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies, and has worked with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and as a pastor both in the US and overseas. He and his wife Susanna both grew up as children of missionaries in Pakistan, and carry a love for that country and for overseas ministry. They live in Madison, WI and have four grown children.
Tues May 5, 2:45 pm: “Creation Care and the Global Church: Lessons We’re Learning”
BA (Welch College), MCS (Regent College), MDiv (Regent College/Carey Hall), PhD (Duke University)
Before joining the Carey faculty in 2006, Jonathan Wilson was Professor of Theology and Ethics at Acadia Divinity College and Professor of Religious Studies at Westmont College. A native of Oklahoma, he was ordained by Canadian Baptists and pastored in Western Canada from 1978 to 1986. Jonathan’s teaching invites followers of Christ to connect how we live with what we believe. Jonathan and his wife Soohwan live in Vancouver. Their common passion and call is to equip local churches to be God’s chosen agents to share God’s love with the poor and marginalized around the world.
Wed May 6, 9:30 am: “Superabundant Creation”
PhD, Intercultural Studies (Asbury Theological Seminary)
Terry LeBlanc is Mi’kmaq/Acadian. Eighteen generations ago his ancestors were among the first to embrace Christian faith on this continent – a tradition he upholds with gratitude. In their forty-third year of marriage, he and his wife Bev have three adult children in active ministry – twin daughters and one son. Terry has accrued thirty-seven years of work in the Native North American and global Indigenous contexts, including as an educator in formal theological and community development training. Terry also serves as adjunct faculty in Theology, Mission, and Community Development Studies for Acadia, George Fox, and Tyndale Seminaries, as well as being the Indigenous resource elder for the BEd program at Tyndale University College.
Wed May 6, 11 am: “Creation’s Care and Us: An Indigenous Perspective”
BA (Lake Forest College, Illinois), MS (Utah State University), MA Old Testament and MA New Testament (Gordon-Conwell), PhD (University of Cambridge)
Jonathan Moo teaches New Testament and environmental studies at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. He is the author of a number of essays and books on early Judaism, the Bible and ecology, most recently Let Creation Rejoice: Biblical Hope and Ecological Crisis (IVP, 2014), coauthored with geophysicist Robert White. Besides teaching and writing, Jonathan and his wife Stacey host an Anglican church plant in their home and spend much of their time with students, gardening, as well as exploring the mountains, rivers, and forests of the Rockies and the Northwest.
Thurs May 7, 9:30 am: “New Images for a New Earth: Christ, Creation, and the Mission of the Church”
BSc Physics (University of Toronto), MS and PhD in Atmospheric Science (University of Illinois)
Named TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2014, Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist who studies climate change. Her work has resulted in over one hundred peer-reviewed publications that evaluate global climate model performance, develop and compare downscaling approaches, and quantify the impacts of climate change on cities, states, and ecosystems over the coming century. But Katharine may be best-known to many people because of how she’s bridging the gap between scientists and Christians— work she does in part because she’s a Christian herself. Her work as a climate change evangelist has been featured on the Emmy award-winning documentary series “Years of Living Dangerously.” Katharine lives in Texas with her husband Andrew Farley, a professor of applied linguistics and pastor.
Thurs May 7, 11 am: “Climate Change: Facts, Fictions, and Our Christian Faith”
Leah Kostamo is the author of Planted: A Story of Creation, Calling, and Community, a book Eugene H. Peterson called “remarkable.” She works alongside her husband Markku to show God’s love for all creation through the ministry of A Rocha. Together, they started the first Christian environmental centre in Canada, which over the past twelve years has welcomed thousands of visitors and interns who have rolled up their sleeves to grow organic vegetables, restore salmon streams, and inspire school children. Leah shares life with five other families (and a myriad of chickens) on Kingfisher Farm near Vancouver, BC. She can be found online at leahkostamo.com
Thurs May 7, 1:30 pm: “Stories of Hope”
Miranda Harris is co-founder of the international Christian organization A Rocha. With her husband Peter, she was involved in setting up field study centres in Portugal and France, where for almost thirty years, along with their four children and cross-cultural teams, they welcomed countless people of all ages from many different countries to share in the life of the centres and the work of creation care. They continue to be involved in some of the nineteen countries where A Rocha is now active. Miranda has a particular passion for building communities where love for Christ and an authentic shared life ensure a welcome for all-comers.
Thurs May 7, 1:30 pm: “Stories of Hope”