Donald Grayston Biography
Donald Grayston retires from undergraduate teaching of
religious studies in the Humanities Department at Simon Fraser University and
as director of the Institute for the Humanities there as of the end of the
summer. He will continue to teach in the seniors program, the Pacific Jubilee
Program at Vancouver School of Theology, and through the study tours in the
Pilgrimage Program. His published work mainly concerns the life and work of
Thomas Merton, and the literature of pilgrimage. Active in the peace movement
since 1980, he has worked with churches, theological schools, community groups
and universities in the search for peace which is essential in our time. He is
also an Anglican priest, and is currently vicar of St Oswald's Anglican Church
in Port Kells, Surrey, BC.
Donald also facilitated the First Annual British
Columbia Peace Education Conference, Simon Fraser University and University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Theme - Peace
Ed 2004: Building a Culture of
Peace.
Website www.bc-peace-ed.org
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Donald Grayston, PhD
Director, Institute for the Humanities
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Canada
tel: 604/291-5516 / fax: 604/291-4504
website: www.sfu.ca (Academic Programs -
Humanities)