Craig Carter

Dr. Carter has been teaching theology and ethics at Tyndale University College & Seminary in Toronto since 2000. He also serves part-time as "Theologian in Residence" at Westney Heights Baptist Church. He teaches theology and ethics in both settings and also preaches regularly at Westney. Dr. Carter firmly believes that theology is done from and for the Church and is for the people of God, not for an academic elite alone. In his teaching and preaching ministry, he seeks to implement the motto of St. Francis of Assisi: "In essentials unity, in non-essentials diversity, in all things charity."

Bruxy Cavey

Bruxy is the Teaching Pastor of The Meeting House - a church for people who aren’t into church. This multi-site community in the Greater Toronto Area shares the same teaching and vision: to create safe places for spiritual seekers to ask questions and develop thoughtful faith. Bruxy’s accessible style, historical rigor, and refreshing candor make him a popular guest on television and radio programs and at universities across Canada. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario with his wife, Nina and three daughters, Chelsea Chanelle and Maya, and their lovable dog Toby.

David Fitch

David Fitch (PH.D. Northwestern University) is the church planter, and one of the pastors of “Life on the Vine Christian Community,” an emerging church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in the NW Suburbs of Chicago IL (lifeonthevine.org). He also is the B R Lindner Chair of Evangelical Theology at Northern Seminary, Chicago IL. He is co-founder of up/rooted (up-rooted.blogspot.com) a collaborative friendship of pastors engaging postmodernity in the Chicagoland area and blogs at reclaimingthemission.com. He is the author of the recent book The Great Giveaway: Reclaiming the mission of the church … as well as many articles in theological journals. He is a regular contributor to New-Wave E-Zine, Church and Postmodern Culture Blog, as well as Christianity Today’s Out of Ur Blog. He is a regular speaker on the topics of emerging church, evangelicalism, postmodernity and the challenges facing the church in North America. He is married to Rae Ann and they have a son “Max.”

Wendy Gritter

Wendy is committed to engaging the local church to reach out to and minister effectively with those addressing questions of faith and sexual identity.

Wendy has served as the Executive Director of New Direction Ministries for five years.

Sylvia Keesmaat

Sylvia Keesmaat is a gardener, homeschooling mother, and adjunct professor of bibilical studies at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. She is the author, with Brian Walsh, of Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire, and editor of The Advent of Justice. Sylvia lives on Russet House Farm, a solar-powered organic farm in Cameron, ON.

Ingrid Heinrichs Pauls

Ingrid has been a Fair Trade advocate for most of her life. Ingrid made her first Fair Trade purchase when she was about 12 yrs old, a shopping experience that led to 20 years of volunteering with Ten Thousand Villages in Ontario, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In 2001 she left her job as a Maternity Nurse to become Manager of the Ten Thousand Villages store in Princeton, NJ. Two years later she moved home to Ontario to open the new Ten Thousand Villages store in downtown Oakville, a position she held for almost 4 years.

With her passion for letting people know about the importance of Fair Trade, Ingrid is now the Education and Media Coordinator for Ten Thousand Villages Canada. She has been interviewed on CBC Radio's Metro Morning, Here & Now, and Fresh Air programs, as well as on CP24, Listen Up!, Web 2.0, Calgary's City Line Breakfast TV, and London, Ont's A-Channel Breakfast TV.

Ingrid has spoken to community groups, churches and schools across Southern Ontario. The goal of her talk is to "increase people's awareness of the exploitation involved in many of the products we purchase every day, and the difference it really makes when we shop Fair Trade."

Fishing, birds, good coffee, scripture, Sylvia, Jubal, Madeleine and Lydia, students, music, books, writing, rivers - these are some of the passions of Brian Walsh. Often doing his best thinking either over a good cup of coffee in a local coffee shop, or in a river with a fishing pole in his hand and binoculars close by, Brian insists that Christian scholarship, and all of life, must be integral and closely tied to the rhythms of creation. While he doesn't always succeed in achieving such wholeness (or simply letting it happen), these are his goals.

He also teaches graduate level courses on postmodernity, theology of culture and homelessness at Wycliffe College, within the Toronto School of Theology.

He is the author of a number of books including: Beyond Homelessness, Colossians ReMixed, Subversive Christianity, Truth is Stranger Than it Used to Be & The Transforming Vision.

June Keener Wink

From her background in body movement and art, June offers a unique approach to the integration of body, mind and spirit. She leads groups in movement and art activities.

She is an internationally known potter whose specialty is "Dancing Flame Oil Lamps" which are used for personal and group meditation. She also makes chalices and patens, and other liturgical ware.

She is author of an article, "Shedding the Snakeskin," in Women's Studies Quarterly 21/2 (Summer, 1993), is the subject of a chapter, "Bible Study and Movement for Human Transformation," in Body and Bible, (1992), and is featured in an interview in The Witness, entitled "In Pursuit of a Dancing God," by Marianne Arbogast (May 1995)." She also wrote "Joy in the Dance" in The Living Pulpit (October - December 1996).