Women's Breakfast (Hybrid) Fall 2024

Wycliffe College invites you the Women's Breakfast: In-person at Wycliffe College & livestreamed online!

Date: Saturday November 9th, 2024

Time: 9:30 am-12:00 pm EST

Online event begins at 10:00 am EST.

Featured Speaker: Professor Marion Taylor

Theme: Translating the Letter of Scripture into Life

Join us for breakfast at Wycliffe College, online from the comfort of your home, or host a Women's Breakfast at your church or with your friends!

In addition to Dr Taylor's presentation and lively breakout group discussion, you will meet women currently studying at Wycliffe and hear more about their personal stories of calling as well as their journey of spiritual formation.

Tickets are $15 for the in-person event, and online tickets are free. The deadline to register is October 24th, 2024.

Consider donating to support bursaries for women studying at Wycliffe College! Tax receipts will be issued.

PhD (Yale),BA (Toronto), MA (Toronto), MDiv (Knox/Toronto), STM, MPhil

Marion Taylor grew up in Toronto and began her academic studies at the University of Toronto. Questions about how to negotiate the worlds of faith and the academic study of the Bible pushed her to pursue an MA in Near Eastern Studies and a Master of Divinity degree. Ultimately her journey took her to Yale University, where her interest in the history of the interpretation of the Bible was solidified. Under the direction of Brevard Childs, she wrote her doctoral thesis on the history of Old Testament studies as they developed at Princeton Seminary from 1812 to 1929.

At Yale in a class on apocalyptic literature, Marion met her husband Glen. Glen was from Calgary, but they returned to Toronto to teach at Wycliffe College. With Glen as residence dean, they lived at the College while raising three children and continuing to teach.

Marion’s interests in the Old Testament are broad. She teaches a variety of courses, including Introduction to the Old Testament, Jeremiah, Psalms, Old Testament Theology, Reading Scripture through the Ages, Bad Boys and Bad Girls in the Bible, the Books of Esther and Ruth, and Women Interpreters of the Bible. Most recently she has focused on forgotten women interpreters of the Bible.

Marion began her search for forgotten women interpreters of the Bible in 2002, when a student asked if she could write a paper on a woman interpreter from the 19th century. This question has taken Marion on the greatest adventure of her life, as she and a team of students and scholars have unearthed the names and writings of hundreds of women throughout history.

Marion's most recent publications have included a commentary on Ruth and Esther, published in the Fall of 2020 in Zondervan’s Story of God Series. She is very excited that the book that she co-authored with Joy Schroeder, was recently published by WestminsterJohn Knox. Marion is currently working on a book on Paul through the eyes of women from the sixteenth to the long nineteenth century.

In her spare time, Marion loves to read, write, and walk her dog at the family cottage in northern Ontario.

Host or Publisher Wycliffe College, University of Toronto