Senior Lecturer
Theology
Laidlaw College
New Zealand
Mark began his working life as a school teacher. He became a Christian in 1985 and went into full-time service in 1987 doing community outreach work with St Columba's Presbyterian Church in Pakuranga. He came to Laidlaw College as a student in 1990, completing a BTh with first class honours. After a year in ministry at St John's Presbyterian Church, Mark completed ordination training at the Dunedin School of Ministry and served as a minister alongside his wife Emma at Greenlane Presbyterian Church from 1997-2003 and then at Mt Roskill Baptist. In 2005 he completed his ThD, looking at a mandate for evangelism in the Pauline Epistles, and joined the Laidlaw College staff.
Theology in dialogue with science, technology and new media, as well religion, media and popular culture.