Rev. Gordon T. Smith, Ph.D.
Gordon T. Smith is the president of reSource Leadership International (formerly known as Overseas Council Canada), an agency that fosters excellence in theological education in the developing world. He assumed this position in 2003; prior to this he was the Academic Vice President and Dean of Regent College, in Vancouver, where he also had a teaching appointment in Spiritual Theology. Dr. Smith continues to teach part time at Regent.
Prior to joining the faculty of Regent College, Gordon was the Dean and taught theology at Canadian Theological Seminary (Regina, Canada) and Alliance Biblical Seminary (Manila, Philippines). He has had a number of pastoral appointments, serving as the senior pastor of a congregation in Ontario, Canada, and an international congregation in the Philippines. Along the way he has also had a number of part-time and interim preaching assignments for congregations in transition.
His work as an academic administrator has been complemented by his research, writing and teaching in the areas of systematic and spiritual theology. His particular area of interest is the theology of religious experience, and in this connection he has published a number of works on such topics as the theology of conversion, the nature and practice of discernment, the place of vocation in the life of a Christian; his current foci include two studies in process for publication – one on the place of confession and repentance in the life of a Christian community, and the other on the theological and spiritual dynamics of entrepreneurship. The published works include:
- The Voice of Jesus: Discernment, Prayer and the Witness of the Spirit (IVPress, 2003).
- Beginning Well: Christian Conversion and Authentic Transformation. IVPress, 2001.
- Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential. IVPress, 1999.
- A Holy Meal: the Lord's Supper in the Life of the Church. Baker, 2005
Gordon completed his Master of Divinity at Canadian Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. at the Loyola School of Theology, the Ateneo de Manila University. He is an ordained minister with the Christian & Missionary Alliance.
He is married to Joella, an artist, and together they have two grown sons.