How I got to Regent:

After studying pharmacy and worked briefly as a pharmacist, I came to Regent because I felt that I needed to balance my academic experience with studies related to my faith. A pharmacy degree seemed rather one-sided.

Most important lessons:

The first thing I learned at Regent—which was actually a great crisis of faith—was that no one had all the answers!! Reading all kinds of different authors eventually made me unafraid of other points of view, but it was pretty scary in the beginning.

Another lesson came part-way through my studies. One evening in December, I was finishing up two papers—one on the ethics of Martin Luther, and one on the history of Christian involvement in hospitals. I suddenly had the overwhelming realization that I had been struggling to be good enough for my whole life. In that moment, I had a deep sense of what it means to be justified by faith. That moment has stayed with me and given me great freedom.

How Regent made a difference:

Living my life as a whole—not divided between ministry and non-ministry—is very much an inheritance of my time at Regent. I realized this a few years ago when doing ReFrame with a group in Halifax, because other members of the group were very surprised by the idea of ordinary work being a type of ministry. My time at Regent has given me a solid sense of identity as God’s person in the world, whether serving as a “missionary” or homemaker, helping new immigrants in Halifax, or teaching English in Asia.

Favourite Regent class:

Ethics with Klaus Bockmuehl.

Funniest Regent memory:

We decided to hide outside J. I. Packer’s class on April Fool’s Day. But the joke was on us, because for some reason he was late to class that day!

Favourite thing about Vancouver:

The view over English Bay on the way to the bus each morning.

Aspect of my life that would have surprised me as a student:

My husband and I recently visited our son and his wife, both of whom are doing doctoral work in Auckland, New Zealand.

Why I support Regent today:

We need a place where academic studies can be related to faith.

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