Paul R. Dekar is Professor Emeritus of Evangelism and Mission, Memphis Theological Seminary, and a long time friend of this church. He is a prolific author, including a book about the Baptist monastic community here in Victoria: Community of the Transfiguration: Journey of a New Monastic Community (Eugene: Cascade, 2008) and Thomas Merton: Twentieth-Century Wisdom for Twenty-First-Century Living. He lives in Ontario, Canada with his wife, Nancy.
We seek to live and practice non-violence as the only way to overcome injustice, persecution, tyranny and violence and build cultures of peace.