Jon Coutts (PhD, Aberdeen University) is a tutor of practical theology at Trinity College in Bristol, England. Ordained in the Christian and Missionary Alliance, Coutts has extensive ministry experience in Canada, including the role of lead pastor of Richmond Alliance Church in British Columbia and Selkirk Alliance Church in Manitoba. He writes and speaks on a wide variety of topics including church and pastoral theology, forgiveness and reconciliation, gender and ministry, film and fiction, and the works of Karl Barth and G.K. Chesterton.