Born and raised in Manitoba, Canada, where he resides with his wife Leanne, Carl has been engaging as a researcher and writer on Christian worldview issues since the mid-1990s. His work revolves around monitoring, analyzing and communicating significant trends that impact the Christian community, including:
Religious developments: interfaithism as a spiritual-political movement, the rise of Paganism, and how alternative spiritual influences are impacting culture and the church.
Governance trends: how ideologies rooted in secular and spiritual structures shape global political-social-cultural discourse, and its intersection with the church.
Cultural transformation: examining diverse yet connected cultural trends that signal a challenge to the Christian worldview (transhumanism, psychedelic spirituality, transformational art/festival culture).
This work is intended to equip the church in understanding these challenges, and to see these trends as opportunities to present Biblical truth in a way that answers the world’s questions.
Carl is an adjunct at Millar College of the Bible, teaching a course on Secular Trends, and he is the author of Game of Gods: The Temple of Man in the Age of Re-Enchantment. Over the years he has attended numerous events related to this work, including interfaith gatherings such as the Parliament of the World’s Religions and the G8 World Religions Summit, global governance meetings and forums (UN, NATO, and World Federalist events), and pagan gatherings such as PantheaCon and Paganicon. He is part of an outreach team that annually attends Burning Man with a camp themed after Acts 17 – the “Camp of the Unknown God” – in which members interact with Burners, sharing the gospel and extending compassion to a culture that is seeking purpose and meaning.
Carl and Leanne have two grown and married children, attend Gladstone Christian Fellowship (Gladstone, MB), and are members of Orbis-Sentry – a Christian organization dedicated to equipping the church in the face of growing challenges.