CSPH PRESIDENT

Dr. Robert Revington.

Dr. Robert Revington completed his PhD in Church History at Knox College in the University of Toronto in 2023. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Queen’s University and taught Church History at the Vancouver School of Theology. He is also an author. Among other things, he will be the author of an upcoming biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery (the author of Anne of Green Gables) focusing on her identity as a Canadian Presbyterian; it will be published by Eerdmans Publishing. He is also working on a study of the history of biblical scholarship in Canada. Finally, Robert is an elder at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Aurora, a men’s league hockey player, and a Hamilton Tiger-Cats season ticket holder.

CSPH President
Dr. Robert Revington

CSPH PAST PRESIDENT

Stuart Macdonald serves as the Professor of Church and Society at Knox College, where his main teaching area is the history of Christianity, including the history of Presbyterianism in Canada. He has published on the witch-hunt in Scotland, including The Witches of Fife: Witch-hunting in a Scottish Shire, 1560-1710 (2002) and “John Knox, the Scottish Church and Witchcraft Accusations” in the Sixteenth Century Journal (2017) and Canadian church history. The recent book Leaving Christianity: Changing Allegiances in Canada since 1945 (2017), co-authored with Brian Clarke, is a major demographic study of Canadian religion. Selected other articles and chapters include: “For Empire and God: Canadian Presbyterians and the Great War”; “Presbyterian and Reformed Christians and Ethnicity”; and, “Canadian Presbyterians and Vatican II: A Silent Revolution.” Dr. Macdonald is currently working on a history of The Presbyterian Church in Canada in the post-WWII period.

CSPH Past President
Dr. Stuart Macdonald

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Treasurer
Marilyn Repchuck

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Secretary
Ian Mason

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CSPH Papers Editor
Lois Rooney-Giurin