Students expecting to pursue a Ph. D. program enter a discussion with five Regent scholars. John Stackhouse, Allyson Jule, Charles Ringma, Bruce Hindmarsh and Bob Derrenbacker explain their journeys through their respective Ph. D. programs and provide advice for current students.

John G. Stackhouse, Jr. is Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College. He is the author of Can God Be Trusted? and Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to Its Character.

Robert Derrenbacker is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Regent College. His academic interests include the composition of the Gospels, Pauline literature and theology, the Historical Jesus, the social economic and political backgrounds of the New Testament, ancient literacy and book production and the portrayal of Jesus in modern film.

Bruce Hindmarsh is the James Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College. Dr. Hindmarsh was a Pew research fellow at Oxford University from 1995-1997. He is author of John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition: Between the Conversion of Wesley and Wilberforce.

Charles R. Ringma BD (Reformed Theological College, Australia), BA, MLitSt, PhD (University of Queensland). He has been teaching at Regent College since 1998. He has previously done mission work among the Aborigines in Australia, was the founder and director of the Good News Centre which worked with alcoholics in Brisbane, and was Australian founder and executive director of Teen Challenge, also in Brisbane. He is author of, among other books, Gadamer’s Dialogical Hermeneutic, Cry Liberation: With Voices from the Developing World, and Seek the Silences: With Thomas Merton.

Allyson Jule, scholar in residence at Regent College Fall/Winter 2003-2004, was recently Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Wales, UK, with her cencentration in Education/Applied Linguistics and Gender Studies, Allyson had served on faculty at Trinity Western University in Langley.