Phyllis D. Airhart is Associate Professor of the History of Christianity at Emmanuel College and is cross-appointed to the Centre for the Study of the Religion at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Serving the Present Age: Revivalism, Progressivism, and the Methodist Tradition in Canada , as well as a number of articles on religion in Canada. She is co-editor of Faith Traditions and the Family (with Margaret Lamberts Bendroth), a special issue of Toronto Journal of Theology titled Christianizing the Social Order: A Founding Vision of The United Church of Canada (with Roger C. Hutchinson); and Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World: Essays in Honour of Roger C. Hutchinson (with Marilyn Legge and Gary Redcliffe). In 1991 she received Victoria University’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and was the recipient of the United Church of Canada’s Davidson Trust Award for excellence in teaching and scholarship in theological education in 2002. She is married to Matthew Airhart, and you will often catch them walking around Queen’s Park and Yorkville or enjoying chamber music concerts and opera.