Revd Dr Jason Byassee is the senior minister of Timothy Eaton Memorial Church in Toronto, Canada. He was previously a full professor and the inaugural holder of the Butler Chair in Homiletics and Biblical Hermeneutics at the Vancouver School of Theology in British Columbia.
Revd Dr Byassee is the author or editor of 20 books on Christian faith, biblical interpretation, thriving congregations, leadership, and church history. His primary vocation is to reinvigorate today’s church with the best of ancient and contemporary wisdom for creatively faithful living. He is a contributing editor at Christian Century magazine, and has written widely on church and culture in such places as Sojourners, Christianity Today, and the Vancouver Sun. He is a native of North Carolina, where he pastored Boone United Methodist Church during a period of growth from 2011-2015. His recent books have engaged questions of church revitalization in specific geographies (Northern Lights: Resurrecting Church in the North of England and with Ross Lockhart, Better Than Brunch: Missional Churches in Cascadia), reading the bible for preaching and life (Surprised by Jesus Again, Reading the Psalms with Augustine, and Psalms 101-150), and technology and ministry (Following: Embodied Discipleship in a Digital Age, with Andria Irwin). He and his wife Jaylynn are ordained elders in the United Methodist Church, and have served in ministry together in BC at Tenth Church, a multi-site megachurch, and at First Baptist Church in Vancouver. He was recently a visiting fellow at St. John’s College at Durham University in the UK. He was also preacher to the English-speaking congregation at Vancouver Chinese Presbyterian Church, from which his work on Christianity: An Asian Religion in Vancouver (with Albert Chu and Ross Lockhart) emerged. Learn more at www.jasonbyassee.com