Conor Wilkerson
Conor Wilkerson is a CPE student and itinerant worship leader with degrees in Old Testament from Regent College.
Linda Chonco
Linda Chonco has worked in communications, public relations, and social impact, including co-founding The Zanokhanyo Network. She holds a BA from UCT and an MA in Leadership, Theology & Society from Regent College, and now focuses on writing and supporting marginalized communities.
Jolene Nolte
Jolene is a writer and editor who graduated from Regent in 2020 (MATS, Arts Concentration). Her IPIAT project, Tender Sieve: Poems, was published officially in 2023. In her Regent days, she filed books at the Bookstore and library, was editor for the Et Cetera, wandered Pacific Spirit Park and most of Vancouver’s thrift stores. Currently, she works as a freelance writer and web content editor.
Fong Xue Ting
Xue Ting is a current MATS student at Regent College, and a visual artist, graphic designer, and writer. She has a passion for the power of stories and worldbuilding. In her free time, you'd find her working on concept art, exploring new cafes, learning new art-related software, reading, thrifting, cooking up a meal for friends, or attempting to be active—quite possibly with a cup of Paragon's genmaicha in hand.
Amelia Hamiter
Amelia Hamiter studied at Regent College and explored the experiences of mixed-race women in Metro Vancouver Protestant churches for her MA thesis. She is currently serving as a Pastoral Resident at City Church San Francisco in Northern California.
Angie Song
Angie Song is an ordained Presbyterian minister and PhD student researching faith formation in missional immigrant churches, with a focus on second-generation immigrants.
Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin is a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London and Research Associate at the Margaret Beaufort Institute, Cambridge. She is the author of The Philosophy of Susanne Langer: Embodied Meaning in Logic, Art and Feeling (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Fiona Dieffenbacher
Fiona Dieffenbacher is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Fashion at Parsons School of Design. Her research is located at the intersection of dress, embodiment and spirituality. She founded The En[...]Clothed Collective, author of Fashion Thinking and co-editor of Fashion Practice.
Graham Hoppstock-Matson
Graham Hoppstock-Mattson holds an MDiv ('20) and ThM ('21) from Asbury Theological Seminary. Graham is currently the admissions officer at Regent College and resides in Vancouver with his wife and two cats. He is originally from Michigan.
Rachel Hanna
Dr. Rachel Hanna is a current MATS student (Spiritual Theology) and Podcast Producer at Regent College. Rachel earned a PhD in sociolinguistics from Queen's University Belfast in 2019. Her research interests lie at the intersection of trauma, spiritual formation, and intercultural intelligence.
Claire Perini
Claire is an Australian Vancouverite. She serves as Regent's Associate Dean of Students and loves walking alongside students as they encounter deep theological and personal questions.
Lissa M. Wray Beal
The Rev. Dr. Lissa Wray Beal is Professor of Old Testament at Wycliffe College, Toronto School of Theology, and an ordained Anglican priest. She holds a PhD from the University of St. Michael’s College and writes on the Old Testament’s witness to God in both history and everyday life.
Daniela Amestegui
Daniela Amestegui is a Bolivian graphic designer and MATS graduate from Regent College, specializing in Christianity and the Arts. She works as a freelance designer in Langley, BC, exploring faith, social justice, and theology through her work.
C. J. Berberich
Caleb Berberich is a Colorado native with an interest in life as it has been given to us. Growing up in a family of seven there was no escaping the company of others. However, leaving home to study at Regent College in Vancouver, BC. Caleb’s heart very much remains with his family as he attends to the humility of what it means to belong to others, to another, and to God. Completing a program in Christianity and the Arts, his interest in writing poetry has led him to an interest in what it means to be responsible for each other as we turn our hearts over to the call we find scattered throughout the pages of the Gospels.
Alejandra Ortiz
Alejandra Ortiz, from Tijuana, México, works with IFES and is researching Latin American evangelicalism and women’s contributions to theology and mission.
Jonathan Lipps
Jonathan Lipps is an American-Canadian technologist and musician, currently working as a principal software engineer for Sony's PlayStation console team, after spending most of his career working on software for various tech startups. He also has an academic background in philosophy (MA Stanford), linguistics (MPhil Oxford), and theology (ThM Regent College), in addition to writing and collaborating on various indie music projects (Splendour Hyaline, Gol Olímpico, Anachronists). With this intersection of interests, Jonathan spends a lot of time thinking about the arts, philosophy, theology, and technology.
Naomi Pattison-Williams
Naomi is grateful to live at asiniskaw sipisis, Treaty 6 territory in rural Alberta, raising two boys, some chickens and a friendly goat. Naomi graduated from Regent College with a Master of Arts in Theological Studies and her poetry has appeared in Ekstasis, Fathom Magazine, CRUX and St. Katherine Review among others.
David C. Wang, ThM, PhD
David C. Wang, Th.M., Ph.D. is the Cliff and Joyce Penner Chair for the Formation of Emotionally Healthy Leaders at Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, CA, USA). He is also pastor of spiritual formation at One Life City Church (Fullerton, CA) and a licensed psychologist. His academic and applied work focuses on the holistic formation of Christian leaders, inclusive of the formation of emotional health and resilience alongside the leader’s intellectual and spiritual formation.
Jonathan Saunders
Jonathan Saunders is a singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Wheaton, IL. He grew up in England where he was exposed to a wide range of musical influences and opportunities, from big band and combo jazz, to the English choral tradition, to contemporary church music. His academic and compositional work lies at the intersection of music and theology. He is currently pursuing the MATS (Arts Track) at Regent College.
Sebastian Dortch
Sebastian Dortch is a former journalist and media executive with a master’s degree in leadership, theology, and society from Regent College. He lives in northeast Ohio with his wife, Sibyl.
Jared Borders
Jared is entering the final year of his MDiv degree at Regent College and is also part of the Artizo apprenticeship program run by St. John’s Vancouver. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Jared previously worked full-time as a management consultant while also serving part-time in homeless case management. Since beginning his theological studies, he has been both personally convicted and communally encouraged to pursue pastoral ministry within the Anglican tradition. He is currently interning at King’s Cross Church, a church plant in East Vancouver.
Cheryl Bear
Cheryl Bear is from the Nadleh Whut'en First Nation community (Bear Clan) in northern British Columbia. She is a multi-award winning singer/songwriter who shares stories of Indigenous life—the joy, sorrow, faith, and journey.
David Leong
Mabiala Kenzo
Dr. Mabiala Kenzo is a fourth-generation member of the Alliance Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he has served as a church planter, local church pastor, and National Church President. Dr. Kenzo currently serves as the Director of the St. Lawrence District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada. He is also an Associate Professor with l’École de théologie évangélique du Québec at Université Laval, and a Visiting Professor at Ambrose University, Regent College, and Alliance University in Congo (Boma).
Jessamin Birdsall
Jessamin holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Princeton University and has worked in the fields of international development and community development in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her sociological research focuses on religion, race and ethnicity, and inequality. Jessamin is the co-author (with Jason Roach) of Healing the Divides: How Every Christian Can Advance God’s Vision for Racial Unity and Justice (The Good Book Company, 2022; also available in Kindle edition). She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wheaton College.
Sean Beckett
Sean Beckett is a poet, educator, and perpetual student, currently working towards a ThM at Regent College.
Steven Gomez
Steven Gomez is a Dominican-Canadian writer who grew up in Vancouver, BC and currently studies at Regent College in the MDiv program. He lives in Maple Ridge with his wife Adrea, their cat Olive, and an ever-growing collection of books.
Speplól Tanya Zilinski
Tanya is a person, who is a visual artist, Halq’eméylem teacher, and matriarch of their family. They are a member of The Red River Nation maternally, with ancestral ties to Anishinaabe, Cree, Dakota, and Huron-Wendat Nations throughout Turtle Island’s Plains and Great Lakes Regions, and Ukrainian paternally.
Isabel Ong
Isabel Ong is the Asia Ideas Editor at Christianity Today. She holds a Master’s in Christian Studies from Regent College. She was born and raised in Singapore and currently resides in Richmond, BC.
Isabelle Hamley
Yare Vargas
Yare Vargas, a Bolivian-Brazilian now living in Canada, has a background in psychology and many years of experience in the non-profit sector. With expertise in volunteer management and multilingual communication, she is passionate about social justice and community development. She currently works as Managing Editor and Content Manager at Regent College, and finds joy in music, the arts, and life with her husband and son.
The Saint John’s Bible Heritage Program
The Saint John’s Bible Heritage Program brings art and spirituality together through The Saint John’s Bible—a modern hand-illuminated manuscript—to communities around the world through its Heritage Edition, a fine-art, full-size reproduction of the original. Limited to 299 sets, the Heritage Edition allows schools, churches, libraries, and other institutions to host volumes for study, worship, and reflection.
J.I. Packer
J.I. Packer, a beloved Regent College professor and influential theologian, shaped generations through his teaching, preaching, and writings, including Knowing God and Concise Theology. He also served as General Editor of the ESV Bible.
Jeremy Stewart
Jeremy Stewart is a Scholar-in-Residence and Director of Communications and Public Engagement at Regent College. His research interests include modern and contemporary literature, autotheory, and the relationships between readers, writers, and texts. His first monograph, I, Daniel: An Illegitimate Reading of Jacques Derrida's "Envois," was published in 2024 by Peter Lang Verlag.
A.J. Swoboda
Rev. Dr. A. J. Swoboda is lead pastor of Faith Center in Eugene, Oregon, associate professor at Bushnell University, and mentor for the Doctor of Ministry program at Friends University. Author of over ten books, he also hosts the “Slow Theology” podcast and writes the “Low-Level Theologian” Substack.
Karen Swallow Prior
Karen Swallow Prior, Ph.D. is the 2025-26 Karlson Scholar at Bethel Seminary. She is a popular writer and speaker, a contributing writer for The Dispatch, and a columnist for Religion News Service. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Vox, The Washington Post, Christianity Today, and many other places. Her most recent book is You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful (Brazos 2025).
Shelley Zhang
Shelley Zhang is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Rutgers University and President of the Association for Chinese Music Research. Her work explores Chinese musicians, migration, and race through the lens of “strategic citizenship.” A poet and pianist, she bridges scholarship, storytelling, and sound in her creative practice.
Aubrey Buster
Dr. Aubrey E. Buster is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College. She earned her Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible from Emory University and researches the Psalms, Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah, Daniel, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. She authored Remembering the Story of Israel and is co-authoring volumes on Daniel (NICOT) and Ezra-Nehemiah (Bible in God’s World Series).
Leah Kostamo
Leah is a Registered Clinical Counsellor based in Surrey, BC, on the traditional lands of the Semiahmoo and Coast Salish peoples. With a Master’s in Counselling, she helps adults and youth navigate transformation and healing through neuroscience-informed, compassionate therapy. She was also the co-founder of A Rocha Canada.
Geoffrey Feng
Geoffrey Caofei Feng (冯草非) is an artist currently settling in Vancouver, Canada. He is recognized as a visionary artist for his contemporary style paintings. His work is a combination of small and large scale paintings of scenery in British Columbia and bringing to light human narrative.
Geoffrey has eight years of professional learning experience from Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts in China. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department.
Levi Shiach
Levi Shiach is the Senior Content Creator at Regent College where he is also completing his MATS thesis. His research interests include literature, philosophy, addiction studies, and cultural studies. He was born and raised in Vancouver, B.C.
Shelly Rambo
Dr. Shelly Rambo is a theologian and professor at Boston University School of Theology, whose work explores the intersections of trauma, theology, and spiritual care. Her research has shaped trauma-informed approaches to chaplaincy and theological education, particularly in seminary contexts. She is the author of Spirit and Trauma: A Theology of Remaining, and Resurrecting Wounds, and is a leading voice in rethinking how Christian theology engages suffering, survival, and the work of healing.
