About
Writer, researcher, teacher, pilgrim.
Dr. Matthew R. Anderson is an affiliate assistant professor at Concordia University, Montreal; part-time Director of Camino Nova Scotia (Atlantic School of Theology); and adjunct instructor in religion at St FX University, Antigonish. Matthew was born to settlers on Treaty 4 territory. His PhD in Religious Studies (New Testament) is from McGill University (1999), with a specialisation in Paul. He is an ordained Lutheran in the ELCIC Eastern Synod. He is a recipient of a SSHRC grant for his research “Before the Fact: How Paul’s Rhetoric Made History,” and two Canada Council grants for emerging fiction. Recent books: Our Home and Treaty Land co-authored with Dr. Raymond Aldred of Vancouver School of Theology (Wood Lake 2022); Pairings: The Bible and Booze (version francaise: Apocalypse et gin tonic; Novalis 2021/2022); and Leonard and Paul: Cohen and Apostle (forthcoming, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023). Matthew’s interests in pilgrimage and decolonisation can be seen in his blogs https://somethinggrand.ca/ and https://unsettledwords.com/, his open access article “Aware-Settler Biblical Studies” (Journal of Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2021), and his podcast “Pilgrimage Stories from Up and Down the Staircase”: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/pilgrimage-stories-from-up-and-down-the-staircase/id1525283078
