Rev. Canon George Sinclair
Principal and Teaching Fellow
George was ordained in 1985 and served in both suburban and rural churches prior to his becoming Rector of St. Albans (now Church of the Messiah) in the urban core of Ottawa in 1995. His church was the second church in Canada to vote to join the Anglican Network in Canada. He is the former Chair of Anglican Essentials Canada, and was made a Canon in 2013. He likes to read cultural criticism, apologetics and good biblical commentaries. He is married to Louise and they have nine children and seven grandchildren (and counting).
MA Pastoral Studies, St. Paul’s University, 1985
BA (Hons Sociology), Carleton University, 1978
Email: principal@ryleseminary.ca
Dr. Byron Wheaton
Teaching Fellow
Byron is a Bible teacher and disciple-maker. His passion is to teach God’s word and to equip and mentor leadership for the church. He has served on several pastoral staffs in varying roles over forty plus years of ministry. He currently serves on the pastoral staff of Kingston East End Community Church in Kingston, Ontario. He has been extensively involved with theological education for over 30 years, teaching in seminaries and Bible colleges in the USA, Singapore, Malaysia, and Canada. He earned his PhD in Old Testament and Hermeneutics from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and delights in helping students discover the gospel in the Old Testament. Byron has published a number of articles and a book entitled Matter Matters: Being Disciples of JesuIs in a World of Things. Byron is the father of four adult children and lives with his wife, Jackie, in Kingston.
PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary, 2001
MA, Wilfrid Laurier University, 1985
ThM, Westminster Theological Seminary, 1979
MAR, Westminster Theological Seminary, 1977
BA, University of Western Ontario, 1974
Email: bwheaton@ryleseminary.ca
Dr. Pierre Constant
Teaching Fellow
Pierre came to faith in Jesus Christ during his first year at college. He served as pastor of the Église chrétienne du Plateau in Gatineau (Hull), Quebec, for fifteen years and has worked with a number of regional and national ministries. Pierre received his Doctorate in New Testament Theology and Exegesis from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he studied under the direction of D. A. Carson. His dissertation dealt with the use of Psalm 118 in Luke and Acts. Pierre is the Chair of New Testament Studies at the Toronto Baptist Seminary and College and serves as one of the elders at Église chrétienne du Plateau. He also teaches at SEMBEQ (in French) on a regular basis. Pierre is married to Lise, and they have four grown children. Pierre enjoys hiking, sci-fi movies, as well as Irish and Scottish Celtic music.
PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2001
MA, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1989
BA, University of Ottawa, 1981
Email: pconstant@ryleseminary.ca
Rev. Dr. Lyndon Jost
Teaching Fellow
Lyndon is an Assistant Pastor at Christ Church Toronto (PCA) and director of the Reformed House of Studies at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. His interests are in biblical theology, hermeneutics, history of interpretation, Reformation theology, missiology, spiritual formation and human sexuality. He and his wife, Lami, together with their four children--Naomi, Knox, Micah and Jesse--live on the east side of Toronto.
PhD, Wycliffe College and the University of Toronto, 2022
MDiv, Wycliffe College, 2016
BA (Hons Religion), Carleton University, 2012
dr. Steve Richard Griffin
Teaching Fellow
Steven’s broadest interest is in Christianity and culture, and in equipping leaders for mission and ministry in cross-cultural contexts. After teaching Russian Language and literature for a number of years, he took up theology, specializing in sixteenth-century Spanish Protestant ecclesiology. His nomadic teaching career (as the husband of a career diplomat) has taken him to seminaries in Ukraine, the Philippines, Guatemala, India and Egypt. Apart from teaching at Ryle, he currently serves as minister-at-large at Church of the Messiah. Most recently he participated as a research fellow at the new Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies in Germany. He is married to Stella, and they have three children and five grandchildren.
PhD, McGill University, 2011
PhD, The University of British Columbia, 1996
MA, State University of New York at Albany, 1989
BA, Arizona State University, 1986
Dr. John Sampson
Teaching Fellow
John has a passion for equipping disciples of Jesus Christ with the tools they need for life and ministry. After completing his BA in history and political science at Wilfrid Laurier University, he served as a missionary in Asia, where he witnessed first-hand the power of the gospel in the global Church. He has experience working in campus ministry, as a student chaplain at Wheaton College, and a pastoral intern at Grace Toronto Church. His doctoral work focused on T.C. Chao (1888–1979), one of China’s foremost Protestant thinkers who wrote works of theology in dialogue with China’s cultural and spiritual heritage. John’s research interests are in systematic and contextual theology, and his everyday reading ranges from John Calvin to Du Fu. He and his wife Michelle live in downtown Toronto.
PhD, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, 2022
MA, Wheaton College Graduate School, 2017
BA, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2013
Dr. Jim Salladin
Sessional Lecturer
Jim Salladin leads Emmanuel Anglican Church in New York City and holds a PhD from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. More importantly, he is married to Amber and is father to Caleb and Peter. Jim enjoys both living in a rather overwhelming city, and also getting out of it to ride horses in the country.
Rev. Maj. Shaun Turner
Sessional Lecturer
Shaun was ordained an Anglican priest in 2003 and is presently a Chaplain in the Canadian Armed Forces. He moved to ANiC and Church of the Messiah in November 2017, previously holding ministry in the ACC Diocese of Algoma before joining the Forces. Shaun has a mission to help others realize the spiritual reformation God has for them in Jesus. He is presently a Doctoral Candidate at Tyndale Seminary in Spiritual Formation and has served operational tours in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake and with Task Force Afghanistan. Shaun is married to Amy, a visual and recording artist, and has four school-aged children. His home is not a quiet place.
Dr. Chris Crocker
Sessional Lecturer
Born and raised in rural South Western Ontario, Chris came to faith in Christ at a young age. The journey of following Jesus has been a great adventure ever since. He has served in rural ministry contexts in Ontario and England, along with chaplaincy in the Canadian Army Reserve, and is currently the Pastoral-Elder at Markdale Baptist Church and concurrently also serves as Associate Professor of Church History at Toronto Baptist Seminary. Heb 13:7 makes the study of Church History a biblical command! He is married to Rebekah and has one son. When he isn’t teaching or preaching, his favourite pastime—among other things!—is as a 4th generation apiarist.
Ph.D., University of Bristol, UK, 2018
M.A., McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, 2013
M.Div., McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, 2010
B.A., King’s University College, UWO, London, ON, 2007
Dr Matthew Hoskin
Teaching Fellow
Dr Matthew Hoskin is a specialist in the history of Christianity and historical theology, with a background in ancient history and classical languages. His research focusses on ancient and medieval manuscripts, monks, popes, canon law, and councils, which all feature in his book The Manuscripts of Leo the Great’s Letters (2022), and he blogs about the historic faith at Classically Christian (thepocketscroll.wordpress.com) and co-hosts the podcast Devotion to Christ: Anglican Spirituality, A Tradition for Today with his brother, Jonathan. He lives on Superior’s northern shore in Thunder Bay, Ontario, with his wife and sons.
PhD, University of Edinburgh
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Rev. Canon George Sinclair
Principal
George was ordained in 1985 and served in both suburban and rural churches prior to his becoming Rector of St. Albans (now Church of the Messiah) in the urban core of Ottawa in 1995. His church was the second church in Canada to vote to join the Anglican Network in Canada. He is the former Chair of Anglican Essentials Canada, and was made a Canon in 2013. He likes to read cultural criticism, apologetics and good biblical commentaries. He is married to Louise and they have nine children and seven grandchildren (and counting).
MA Pastoral Studies, St. Paul’s University, 1985
BA (Hons Sociology), Carleton University, 1978
Email: principal@ryleseminary.ca
Rev. Canon Ray David Glenn
Vice Principal
After a career as a business analyst for a publicly traded corporation, R. D. was ordained in the Anglican Diocese of Niagara. He pastors St. George’s Church in Burlington, Ontario — a congregation he has served for over 13 years. St. George’s was the third congregation to leave the Anglican Church of Canada and join the still forming Anglican Network in Canada. He was a founding director of ANiC and was made Canon in 2017. R. D. is convinced that in Anglicanism we have been given a globally and historically trustworthy way of being Christian in the modern world. His ministry is marked by a passion to see the Gospel preached, in word and sacrament, in a language understood in our culture. R. D. is married to Monica. They have two teenage children, Matthew and Kennedy. He enjoys all forms of racing, most things with an internal combustion motor, and anything on two wheels.
M.Div. Biblical Studies, Tyndale Seminary, 2003
B.Sc. (Spec. Hons.), York University, 1999