BA (Harvard)
Ross Douthat joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in April 2009. Previously, he was a senior editor at the Atlantic and a blogger for theatlantic.com. His most recent book is Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (Free Press, 2012). He is also the author of Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class (Hyperion, 2005) and the co-author, with Reihan Salam of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream (Doubleday, 2008). He is the film critic for National Review. A native of New Haven, Conneticut, he now lives in Washington, DC with his wife and two daughters.
BSc (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), MA, MDiv (Gordon-Conwell), PhD (Cambridge)
Initially trained as an aeronautical engineer, Rikk Watts worked for a number of years with IBM in large retail systems engineering while undertaking a degree in philosophy, art history, and sociology. He later joined a parachurch organization engaged in Christian awareness projects in public schools and in providing crisis accommodation and various rehabilitation programs for the urban poor. He has served as an instructor at Gordon-Conwell (Boston), Wycliffe Hall (Oxford), Latrobe University (Melbourne), and the Bible College of Victoria (Melbourne).
BA (Oxford), MS, PhD (Pennsylvania State University)
David Ley's research in urban and social geography has emphasized the class and ethnic re-shaping of Canadian cities, and recently, transnational migration by wealthy Chinese families between East Asia and Canada. His books include Millionaire Migrants (2010) and The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City (1996). His current research examines the causes and social consequences of high housing costs and price volatility in the global cities of Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, Vancouver, and London. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, emeritus Fellow of the Pierre Trudeau Foundation, and a Board member at Regent College.
BA, MA, PhD (UBC)
Justin Tse is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He earned his MA and PhD in Geography at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver. His scholarly work on Chinese Christians, grounded theologies, and the public sphere has been published by Population, Space, and Place, Global Networks, Progress in Human Geography, and Bulletin for the Study of Religion. He also serves as Theology and Social Theory Editor for Syndicate: A New Forum for Theology.
BA (University of King's College), JD (Dalhousie), LLM (University of San Diego), DipCS (Regent College)
Patricia Towler leads the College's enrollment services, alumni relations, conferences, and marketing and publications departments. In addition, she serves as the College's in-house legal counsel. Prior to joining Regent in 2004, she practiced civil litigation with pre-eminent Canadian law firms in Halifax and Vancouver and is an experienced mediator, speaker, and author.
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