Professor Emeritus, Interdisciplinary Studies & Philosophy
Loren Wilkinson joined Regent's faculty in 1981 and was appointed Professor Emeritus in 2016. His interests include Christianity and the arts, philosophy, and earthkeeping. His writing develops a Christian environmental ethic and explores the human relationship to the natural world in its environmental, aesthetic, scientific, and religious dimensions.
Mary Ruth has been married to Loren Wilkinson, Regent College professor emeritus, since 1965. They joined the faculty at Regent College in 1981. For many years Mary Ruth taught a popular course called Books, Children and God. She wrote (with her daughter Heidi) A Time to Read: Good Books for Growing Readers.
In 1988 they moved to a community-owned farm on Galiano Island. From their home on Galiano she and Loren have organized and taught together Wilderness, Technology and Creation (the “Boat Course”); Food: Creation, Community, Communion; and Gardening the City of God. They have written together the book Caring for Creation in Your Own Backyard. Loren and Mary Ruth have two grown children, three grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.
This episode explores living between cultures, integral mission, and the relationship between evangelism, justice, and peace. It reflects on ecological justice, climate migration, and contextual theology, while inviting Western churches to learn from the resilience of global Christian communities.
This article explores how historical study of Jesus reshapes natural theology. By examining Jesus within first-century Jewish history—through themes of temple, Sabbath, and future hope—it argues that God’s kingdom, new creation, and divine presence are revealed in Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection.
This article argues for moving beyond combative apologetics toward “cultural witness”—a posture of humble, truth-seeking testimony. Rather than trying to prove Christianity, believers are invited to illuminate life’s questions, hopes, and challenges through the light of the gospel.