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Elizabeth Millar

Affiliate Assistant Professor of Practical Theology

Dr. Elizabeth Millar is the Assistant Professor of Spiritual Formation at Prairie College, as well as Affiliate Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at Northwest Seminary. She completed a doctorate in Practical Theology at McMaster Divinity College, focusing on Christian Spirituality. With joyful curiosity and prayerful attentiveness, her desire is that students will know God personally, grow in desire to walk in the ways of Jesus, and participate with the Spirit. Elizabeth has experienced living in various settings (rural prairie, inner city, suburbia) and most recently enjoyed small-town life on Prince Edward Island. She is married to a pastor/social worker and is a mother to 5 beautiful people.

Education

  • Doctor of Practical Theology – Christian Spirituality, McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON (2024)
  • Master of Theological Studies - Pastoral Studies, McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON (2021)
  • Bachelor of Arts - History, English, Education, Concordia University College, Edmonton, AB (19970
  • Dissertation - “Sacred Storytelling: Knowing God through the Practice of Mothering”

Courses Taught

  • CF141/42 - Readings in Christian Formation (Prairie College)
  • CF232 - Theory and Practice of Spiritual Direction (Prairie College)
  • CM478 - Counselling and Christian Formation Internship (Prairie College)
  • ML670 - Capstone Project for Master of Christian Ministry Leadership (Prairie College)
  • MF 3P1011 Ministry Formation - External Mentor (McMaster Divinity College)
  • Integration Adviser for Doctor of Ministry - Spiritual Formation (Tyndale Seminary)
  • SPIR0670 - Local Pilgrimage as Spiritual Formation (Tyndale Seminary)

Professional

  • 2026-Present - Assistant Professor, Spiritual Formation, Counselling & Christian Formation Program Director, Prairie College. Three Hills, AB
  • 2026-Present - Affiliate Assistant Professor of Practical Theology, Northwest Seminary. Langley, BC
  • 2026-Present - Doctor of Ministry Advisor, Spiritual Formation. Tyndale Seminary. Toronto, ON.
  • 2026-Present - Project Director for Worshipping Communities Vital Worship Grant, Cornerstone Baptist Church – Montague.
  • 2025-Present - Visiting Research Fellow, University of Cumbria – Institute of Education, Arts, and Society, Charlotte Mason Studies, Ambleside, UK.
  • 2025-2026 - “30 Under 30. - The Nouwen Young Leader’s Program.” Storyteller Mentor. Henri Nouwen Society, Toronto, ON
  • 2024-2026 - Academic Mentor, Adjunct Faculty. Northwest Seminary. Langley, BC.
  • 2020-2026 - Storyteller, Vision Ministries Canada, Waterloo, ON
  • 2025 - Short Term Resident Scholar, Collegeville Institute, Collegeville, MN
  • 2025 - Artist in Residence – Storyteller, MennoCreative Project, Canadian Mennonite Magazine
  • 2024-2025 - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Canadian Institute for Empirical Church Research, Wycliffe College - University of Toronto

Publications

  • Millar, Elizabeth. “Goodness in an Age of Toxicity, Moral Scandal, and Narcissism: What Does Healthy Canadian Church Leadership Look Like?” Canadian-American Theological Review. Volume 14, 2026.
  • Millar, Elizabeth. “Charlotte Mason: A Visionary Maternal Model of Leadership.” In Charlotte M. Mason, Home Education, Charlotte Mason Critical Edition 3, edited by Kevin Foth and Douglas Sikkema. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic. (Anticipated 2027)
  • Van Pelt, Deani, Elizabeth Millar, and Sally Elton-Chalcraft (Eds). Awakening the Whole Child: A Charlotte Mason Philosophy for the 21st Century. Oxford, UK: Routledge Academic, 2026.
  • Millar, Elizabeth. “The Gift of a Charlotte Mason Philosophy: A Practical Theology of Joy in an Age of Depression and Anxiety.” InAwakening the Whole Child: A Charlotte Mason Philosophy for the 21st Century, edited by Deani Van Pelt, Elizabeth Millar, and Sally Elton-Chalcraft. Oxford, UK: Routledge Academic, 2026.
  • Millar, Elizabeth. “Iron Sharpens Iron: Learning from Ten Canadian Mennonites.” A series of ten stories featuring church leaders from diaspora, immigrant-based churches. Canadian Mennonite Magazine, 2026.
  • Millar, Elizabeth. “The Incarnation as the Great Connection: Awakening Us to the Presence of God in Everyday Life.” In Secularism and the Pursuit of Transcendence, Volume I, edited by Stanley E. Porter and Wendy J. Porter. McMaster General Studies Series 17. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2025.
  • Millar, Elizabeth. “Three Sisters: The First Three Beatitudes as Guiding an Embodied Response to the Discovery of the Unmarked Graves at Residential Schools Across Canada in 2021.” Practical Theology 16.3, 2023.
  • Millar, Elizabeth. The Inherent Generosity within a Charlotte Mason Education and a Practical Theology of Joy. Charlotte Mason Centenary Monograph Series. Charlotte Mason Institute. Ambleside and Carlisle, UK: The Armitt Museum & the University of Cumbria, 2023.

Interests

  • Reading, knitting, going on local adventures.
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