Our Leadership Team
Our Director and Associate Directors work to vision, strategize, plan, and execute Institute initiatives in collaboration with one another.
Arch Wong
Professor, Practical Theology
Associate Director, Flourishing Congregations Institute
Cross Appointment, School of Education
Biography
My current research is in the areas of discipleship/spiritual and character formation, pastoral care, congregational studies, flourishing congregations, pastoral and teacher well-being, qualitative and quantitative research methodologies for practical theology and education, and western/Indigenous/Asian epistemologies.
I am a big sports fan of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and an avid road cyclist.
Current research and scholarly works
- Wong, Arch Chee Keen, Thiessen, Joel, Chapman, Mark. (Ed.)(2024). The stories congregations tell: Flourishing in the face of transition and change. Oregon: Wipf and Stock.
- Wong, Arch Chee Keen, Thiessen, Joel, McAlpine, Bill & Walker, Keith. (2021). Signs of Life: Catholic, Mainline, and Conservative Protestant Congregations in Canada. Toronto: Tyndale Academic Press. https://biblescanada.com/signs-of-life
- Wong, Arch, Chee Keen. (2021). What might a practical theological reflection on religious freedom and social engagement look like in light of a resurgence of Islamization in Malaysia? In Elaine Wei Fun Goh, Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan, Jonathan Y. Tan & Amos Yong (Eds.), From Malaysia to the Ends of the Earth: Southeast Asian and Diasporic Contributions to Biblical and Theological Studies (pp. 221-252). Claremont Press. https://claremontpress.com/from-malaysia-to-the-ends-of-the-earth.html
- Wong, Arch Chee Keen (2024). What do spiritual formation practices look like for graduate theology students: Implications for faculty teaching. Pastoral Psychology, 73, 779-798.
- Wong, Arch Chee Keen, McAlpine, Bill, Thiessen, Joel, & Walker, Keith. Discipleship from Catholic, Mainline and Conservative Protestant Congregant Perspectives in Canada (2022). Journal of Beliefs & Values, 43:4, 480-492. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EYWSDDRCBVVFHZPMFUF7/full?target=10.1080/13617672.2021.1995303
- Thiessen, Joel, Quantz, Kennedy, Wong, Arch Chee Keen, McAlpine, Bill, & Walker, Keith (2022). Evangelistic belief and behavior among Canadian congregants. Studies in Religion, 51:4, 459-479. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00084298211055072
- Wong, Arch Chee Keen, McAlpine, Bill, Thiessen, Joel, & Walker, Keith (2019, September). Are you listening? The relevance of what pastoral/denominational leaders and theological educators are saying about preparing leaders for ministry. Practical Theology, 12:4, 415-432. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1756073X.2019.1609255
- Wong, Arch Chee Keen (2016). Paradigms of theory and practice in teacher and theological education. British Journal of Educational Studies, 64:3, 295-313. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00071005.2015.1136405
- Hill, Joshua., Crawford, Kathryn., Martens, Sherry, Pelletier, Crystal, Thomas, Christy, & Wong, Arch Chee Keen. (2024). Leadership as Métissage: Seeking to Indigenize our faculty of education. International Journal for Leadership in Learning, 24:2, 110–137.
Education
- PhD (University of Regina)
- DMin (Fuller Theological Seminary)
- STM (Regis College, University of Toronto)
- MDiv (McMaster Divinity College)
- BA (McMaster University)
