Who are we?

Kampen
Kampen has recently completed her Honours BA in Biblical and Theological Studies at Canadian Mennonite University, with a double minor in Philosophy and Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies. Her thesis, entitled “Imagining the Ethics of Diaspora: Interferences in Theology, Sociology, and Philosophy,” is a critique of contemporary approaches to peacebuilding and ethics more broadly, figuring the work of John Howard Yoder, John Paul Lederach, and Jacques Derrida. Besides reading and writing, Kampen enjoys traveling, learning languages, and playing the fiddle in a local folk band called Floodplains.

Theophilus
Theophilus is almost finished a Bachelor of Music degree from Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He hails originally from the beautiful, soggy place known as coastal British Columbia, where he grew up as the son of a pastor in a Mennonite Brethren church. Theophilus quite contentedly remains within the same church today, and hopes to find work related to church music someday. He enjoys jam sessions, his bicycle, whatever musical instruments he can get his hands on, singing in parts, history, theology, and the friendship of people old enough to be retired.

Lexi
Lexi is a masters student in theological ethics at Oxford University. She previously obtained a BA from the Candian Mennonite University, attends a Baptist church, and is beginning to explore her Eastern Orthodox roots. Her interests are interdisciplinary, specifically the relationship between theology and psychology, and the interface between ethics and art, particularly the use of the language of artistic making in ethics. She is currently undertaking research on the significance of rhythm and temporality for ethics as it relates to this artistic language, using the work of Giorgio Agamben, Karl Barth and Ecclesiastes. When Lexi is not in the library, she is learning to draw, exploring museums, and travelling Europe.

Zac
Zac is currently Pastor of a small congregation in Arborg, Manitoba. In 2011 he completed his BA Honours studies at Canadian Mennonite University. His honours thesis sought to bring into conversation two modern theologians, namely Karl Barth and David Bentley Hart, around the theological terms “creation” and “apocalypse”. His current study interests are: theologies of atonement, Karl Barth, Eastern Orthodoxy, early Church Fathers, and various other forms of modern theology.

Max
Max is completing a BA in Rhetoric and Philosophy at the University of Waterloo. His thesis, on Hegel and Adorno, is called Dialectics Unbound and deals with the themes of identity, totality, and vitality. Max has served in pastoral leadership at Steinmann Mennonite Church in Baden Ontario (Summer 2010 and 2011).

geraldens
Gerald Ens is currently working on an honours BA from Canadian Mennonite University with a major in Biblical and Theological Studies and a minor in Philosophy. In fall he will begin work on his undergrad thesis, in which he hopes to focus on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. When not reading whatever books he can get his hands on, Gerald enjoys singing in various choirs, and occasionally venturing out to the local rink for some shinny.