Go to Nik Ansell's Book Launch!

Toronto area readers, you are invited to attend the launch of Senior Member Nik Ansell’s new book, The Annihilation of Hell: Universal Salvation and the Redemption of Time in the Eschatology of Jürgen Moltmann. This event will be held at 7 pm on Thursday March 5 here at ICS. Nik will be speaking, as well as Jim Olthuis and doctoral student Jon Stanley. All are welcome! Please RSVP to CPRSE@icscanada.edu.

Invitation to teach a course

ICS is seeking to increase greatly the reach of our Master of Worldview Studies. This would be primarily through online and hybrid courses (the latter involving some face to face time). If you hold a Master's degree, and have an idea for a course, please contact Doug Blomberg (dblomberg@icscanada.edu). For more information about the MWS program, see http://www.icscanada.edu/academics/master-of-worldview-studies.

ICS welcomes Jeffrey Hocking as new Registrar

ICS is happy to transform Jeffrey Hocking’s temporary employment as Acting Registrar into permanent employment as Registrar. Jeffrey has a long history with ICS, first as a Junior Member in our MA program, then as a PhD candidate, and for the last number of years working under the supervision of his predecessor, Shawn Stovell, in Student Services. In that capacity, he handled ICS's ongoing efforts to attract students into ICS's three degree programs. In both his academic and administrative work at ICS, Jeffrey has displayed care and competence.

Did you know Calvin could be ‘Hegelianized’? Go to Rebekah Smick’s TST Liturgy Seminar to Find out How

Senior Member Rebekah Smick will be giving a talk on “The Hegelianized Calvin: Re-Examining Calvin’s Place in the Separation of Art from Religion.”

This talk will take place at on Wednesday February 25 at 3:15 PM in Boardroom 1 at the Toronto School of Theology, 47 Queen’s Park Crescent East. It is open to the public.

Critical Faith is coming to Vancouver!

Senior Member Ronald A. Kuipers will be speaking at Fleetwood CRC, 9165 160 Street, Surrey BC on at 7 pm on Saturday March 21. His talk is titled "What's So Critical About Faith?" Touching on the issues raised by the New Atheists, Ron challenges the unowned spiritual ideology informing their materialist worldview, and concludes with a challenge to Christians to recall the radicality of the promise of redemption we have inherited and are called to. On March 24, Ron will also be leading a workshop on postsecularism at the Our Whole Society conference in Vancouver.

Junior Member News

In May, Junior Member Ethan Vanderleek will be starting his new job as a campus chaplain. He will be moving to Surrey, BC to start as the CRC campus chaplain at the Kwantlen Polytechnic University Surrey Campus. Ethan plans to finish his ICS MA thesis through the summer and then continue his graduate studies at Regent College seminary starting in September. Congratulations Ethan!

Junior Member Rachel McGuire has submitted her ICS-only PhD Thesis offering a biblically grounded interdisciplinary account of power and the call of Christian existence to those of us who live as middle agents in our world economy and politics. What is remarkable is that she has managed to take on such an ambitious project while serving as very active full-time Pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Rochester, N.Y. Her defense committee is being assembled and a time for the thesis defense negotiated over the next couple of weeks.

On March 12, Junior Member Dan Rudisill will be giving a talk titled, "The Young Educated Christian Professional" to the Christian Legal Fellowship at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law in Windsor, Ontario

Later this month, Junior Members Dan Rudisill and Joshua Harris will be presenting papers at the "Re-Imagining the Intersection of Evolution and the Fall" conference which will be held at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. Dan’s paper is titled, "Let us Make Man in Our Image: Emergent Evolution and the Imago Dei” and Josh’s paper is titled "Augustine’s Christological Understanding of Death in John 8".

Clockwise from top left: Ethan, Rachel, Dan, Joshua.