Hey, Marnie here – collaborator, lover of words, lay theologian, walking enthusiast, and Wendell Berry evangelist.

I’ve lived in British Columbia, Manitoba, and currently reside in Toronto, Ontario, but I’ve also lived on the road, driving around Canada and the US with my family for a year of my childhood to learn to live with less. Sounds like a long time ago, but believe me: it changed my life. 

On ‘The Big Trip,’ we not only encountered the beauty of North America, but the diversity of people. Growing up in the Mennonite Brethren tradition, we sought out churches to visit everywhere we went, and through that my eyes were opened at an early age to the ways that different stripes of Christians work together… or don’t.

This piqued a lifelong interest in how people who are different from each other can form meaningful relationships – to collaborate, worship, work, eat, or play together.

This interest has taken me into environmental communications, refugee settlement work, food justice programming, and always back to storytelling. 

As a writer, I focus on themes of: justice; polarization; othering; us-and-them; climate change; creation care; environmental issues; social theory and critique; Christian theology; migration and settlement; and human relationships. 

The long and short of it is this: 

• I believe we belong to each other
• I believe this earth is good
• I’m using words to help us work towards that vision, together. 
  
  Would you like to learn more about me or pitch me a project? Please get in touch! I’m really looking forward to hearing from you.

Warmly,

Marnie