RW901
Final Project Preparation
An exploration of the ancient Christian practice of “finding” oneself in Scripture—reading not as a detached observer but as a participant in God’s redemptive drama. Through close engagement with primary texts and moments from reception history, you will see how believers and communities have located their lives within the biblical story across centuries. The course models an Anglican way of reading that is canonical, prayerful, and ecclesial, integrating lectio and exegesis so that Scripture forms identity, desire, and daily practice for the life of the Church.
The Rev. Dr. Jack Gabig (MDiv 1995) has taught practical theology at Trinity Anglican Seminary since 2017, first as Associate Professor and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program and, since 2026, as Chaplain for Community Soul Care. Trinity is where he trained for ordination, and he returned to teach pastoral theology as an adjunct in 2007. He earned a PhD in practical theology from King's College London and served as acting chaplain of New College, Oxford. The chaplaincy draws on more than thirty years of pastoral ministry with children, youth, university students, and families.
Dr. Gabig cares for the Trinity community and teaches pastoral care, pastoral leadership, and worship in the Prayer Book tradition. Since 2011 he has guided nearly one hundred master's and doctoral students in researching ministry in context to improve mission. From 2009 to 2018 he chaired the Anglican Church in North America's Committee for Catechesis and served as its liaison to the College of Bishops. The committee produced To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism, now available in sixteen translations.
His books in progress include Open to Jesus but I Hate the Church and The Disneyization of American Mainstream Christianity. He speaks French and Spanish and has led more than twenty short-term mission trips to eight countries. He also caters, and has cooked and served for parties of up to two hundred guests.
Trinity is to be an evangelical seminary in the Anglican tradition. To this end we develop Christian leaders who can plant, renew, and grow churches that make disciples of Jesus Christ.
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