Father Benjamin von Bredow is the Rector of Christ Church in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, where he lives with his wife Katy and daughter Theodora. He studied ancient philosophy at King's College and Dalhousie University (BAH '17), and liturgics at the University of Notre Dame du Lac (MTS '19). His research interests focus on the nexus between liturgy, theology, and pastoral practice. He is currently the chair of a committee for the Prayer Book Society of Canada to develop recommendations for supplementing the traditional one-year eucharistic lectionary with Old Testament lessons, and his ATC address this year is one of the fruits of that ongoing work. Fr Benjamin is also an iconographer, woodworker, singer, and enthusiastic player of racket sports. 

The Rev’d David Curry holds degrees in Classics and Theology from King’s College, Dalhousie University, Harvard University, and Trinity College, University of Toronto, and is currently the Chaplain, Head of English, and ToK Teacher at King’s-Edgehill School, Windsor, and the Rector of the Parish of Christ Church, Windsor, NS. He and his wife, Marilyn, have three children and three grandchildren.

The Rev’d Dr. Gary Thorne served most recently as the Chaplain of Huron University College in London, Ontario, and before that served for more than a decade as the Chaplain of the University of King’s College, Halifax. He holds degrees from Acadia University, Dalhousie University, and the University of Durham. He is retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel from the Canadian Armed Forces, having received several decorations as a result of his service, including a tour with the United Nations Observer Force in the Golan Heights.

Katy von Bredow graduated from King's in 2021. She lives in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, where her husband is a parish priest. These days she spends most of her time exploring the world with her one year old daughter. Katy enjoys fiddling with her sewing machine, endlessly re-reading Anne of Green Gables, and going on long-hikes by the ocean.

A native of Nova Scotia, Fr. George read for a Master of Divinity degree at Wycliffe College Toronto before being ordained in the Diocese of Ely and serving parishes there, as well as serving as an Assistant Minister at St. Michael at the North Gate, Oxford, and as the Chaplain of Lincoln College. He served in the Diocese of Nova Scotia & PEI before becoming the Principal of Pusey House, Oxford, in 2013. Fr. ​George completed a PhD at the University of Durham under the supervision of Professor Andrew Louth, on E. B. Pusey’s unpublished lectures, ‘Types and Prophecies of the Old Testament’. His  research interests include E. B. Pusey and the Oxford Movement, the allegorical interpretation of the Bible, and the artistic expression of Christian doctrine. He is married to Karen and they have two daughters, Clara and Charlotte.

My earliest experience of parish life came in St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church (now defunct) in North End Halifax. Later I made a dramatic entrance into Evangelical Protestant Church life, until I began following the Anglican way and eventually, upon returning to Halifax in 2014, landed in the parish of St George’s. I retired to Halifax after a career as an English professor at Laurentian University in Sudbury, specializing in Nineteenth-Century English Literature. My enduring passion is for the vital inter-animation of faith and imagination. I explored th relationship in my book on George Eliot’s “religious imagination,” in which I argue that, though she left the Church, George Eliot never left the imaginative world of faith. This connection between imagination and faith is vital to her, but also to me and, I increasingly believe, to all of humanity.