Season 7: Episode 10 | Stephen Andrews | How Reading Scripture Helps Us Grow

Scripture Untangled

Listen to Bishop Stephen Andrews, Principal of Wycliffe College, being interviewed by CBS Ambassador, Andrew Stirling. Stephen shares how his view of the Bible and the church was influenced by his lifelong study of the Bible, his exposure to global evangelicalism and the global Anglican Church, and serving as Study Assistant to John Stott in London for two years. He also discusses how this foundation prepared him for his ministry of serving various parishes across Canada and has culminated in the training and equipping of theological students for ministry across the world.

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Bishop Stephen Andrews is the Principal of Wycliffe College and the Helliwell Professor of Biblical Interpretation. A graduate of Wycliffe College and Cambridge University, his academic interests lie in the area of Jewish biblical interpretation in the Second Temple period. He has taught courses on the Prophets of Israel, the Pauline Epistles, Christian Worship, Biblical Hermeneutics, St Mark’s Gospel, and the Development of Christian Thought. However, for the past two years he has taught Anglican Liturgy with faculty from Trinity College. Stephen’s evangelicalism was deeply shaped by his two years serving as Study Assistant to John Stott.

He has served parishes in Vancouver, Halifax and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Stephen is a former President of Thorneloe University in Sudbury and was the Bishop of the Diocese of Algoma for eight years. Besides administrative duties, travelling and preaching on behalf of the institution, he is an honorary assistant at St Paul’s Anglican Church in Toronto. Stephen and his wife, Fawna, a psychotherapist, have two children and two grandchildren. He enjoys birdwatching and travelling and is an armchair woodworker.