Women's Breakfast (Hybrid) Fall 2025

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

Date: Saturday November 15, 2025

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

Online event begins at 10:00 am EST.

Featured Speaker: Professor Marion Taylor & Professor Lissa Wray Beal

Theme: Women Confronting Old Testament Violence - Then & Now

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 $20 for the in-person event, and online tickets are free. The deadline to register is November 3rd.

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 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 spend time with her grandchildren, read, write, and walk her dog at the family cottage in northern Ontario.

PhD from University of St. Michael’s College (Wycliffe), MDiv from Taylor Seminary, BTh from Northwest Bible College

The Rev. Dr Lissa Wray Beal grew up near Vancouver, Canada and has lived and studied in several Canadian cities. Her years of pastoral ministry revealed her love of preaching and teaching from the Old Testament as she responded to parishioners’ desire to understand its role in Christian faith and life. This informed her decision to pursue a PhD in Old Testament at Wycliffe College. Upon graduation, she taught for many years at Providence Theological Seminary near Winnipeg. During that time, she made an ecclesial transition from the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada to the Anglican Church of Canada, and ministers as an ordained priest.

Her research focuses on Israel’s life in the land, and exile from it. Her interest in narrative and canonical readings, and the insights of trauma studies are evident in her commentaries on 1–2 Kings and Joshua and inform her many articles on topics in 1–2 Kings, Joshua, Psalms, and Jeremiah. She is currently preparing a commentary on Jeremiah.

She lives in Toronto with her husband, Steve. They enjoy travelling, often feeling more like pilgrims than tourists as they like to visit cathedrals and trace the lives of the saints.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Wycliffe College, 5 Hoskin Ave, Toronto, Canada