Listen to Fr. Peter Galadza, PhD, Professor Emeritus (as of 2020) in the Faculty of Theology of the University of Saint Michael’s College (USMC) in the University of Toronto, being interviewed by Rev. Dr. Andrew Stirling. In this episode, they discuss the impact and influence of Scripture throughout Peter’s life, from his practices as a priest to how he has helped his family discover the power of Scripture and how it can be applied in a practical manner in everyday life.

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Fr. Peter Galadza, PhD is Professor Emeritus (as of 2020) in the Faculty of Theology of the University of Saint Michael’s College (USMC) in the University of Toronto, and recently retired Director of the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at USMC.

In 2022 he held the Basil H. Losten Visiting Professorship in Ukrainian Church Studies at the Catholic University of America (CUA).

In 2003-2004 Fr. Galadza was a research fellow at Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Research Center in Georgetown, Washington, DC. He was subsequently elected President of the international academic association, Societas Orientalium Liturgiarum.

In 2004, his book, The Theology and Liturgical Work of Andrei Sheptytsky, appeared in the series, Orientalia Christiana Analecta, edited by Robert Taft, SJ. Galadza is the author of more than 65 articles, and editor of several other books. His contribution to liturgical scholarship is the subject of an entire chapter, “La riforma liturgica nel pensiero di P. Galadza,” in a monograph by Marcel Mojzeš, Il movimento liturgico nelle Chiese bizantine: Analisi di alcune tendenze di reforma nel XX secolo, Bibliotheca “Ephemerides Liturgicae” Subsidia 132 (Rome: Edizioni Liturgiche, 2005), pp. 221-28. In March 2025, on the occasion of Galadza’s 70th birthday, CUA Press published a commemorative collection of papers by more than 20 scholars, including Andrew Louth, dedicated to Galadza. The volume, Eastern Catholic Theology in Action: Essays in Liturgy, Ecclesiology and Ecumenism, focuses on the three areas in which he has worked most extensively.

During the 1999-2000 academic year, Fr. Galadza served as dean of the L’viv Theological Academy in Ukraine (presently the Ukrainian Catholic University), for which he was awarded an archpriest’s pectoral cross by then Bishop Lubomyr Husar. He was ordained to the presbyterate in 1981 by Patriarch Josyf Slipyj.

Fr. Galadza earned his PhD at the University of Toronto, his MA in Liturgy from Notre Dame University and his MDiv from Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.

His wife, Olenka, is a high school teacher and iconographer. They have three children, Daniel, Marika and Ivanka.

Watch or listen to Kim Phuc, known around the world as the girl in the 'Napalm Girl' photograph taken during the Vietnam War, being interviewed by veteran journalist Lorna Dueck. In this episode, Kim talks about the impact of being photographed after being caught in a Napalm bomb attack at the age of nine that left her terribly burned. After traversing a long and traumatic road to recovery, Kim discovered Scripture and found hope and healing. She is the founder of The KIM Foundation International, a nonprofit dedicated to providing funds to support the work of international organizations that provide free medical assistance to children who are victims of war, violence, and deprivation.

Read the transcript: biblesociety.ca/transcript-scripture-untangled-s10-ep4

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Kim Phuc Phan Thi is known around the world as “The Girl in the Picture.” In 1972, at the age of 9, she was immortalized in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph that shows her screaming and running naked down a road in Trang Bang, Vietnam, after having her clothing burned off by napalm. A living symbol of the atrocity of war, she is the founder of The KIM Foundation International, a nonprofit dedicated to providing funds to support the work of international organizations that provide free medical assistance to children who are victims of war, violence, and deprivation.

Mrs. Phan Thi has suffered many hardships since that day in 1972 including several years of painful burn therapy, but her spirit has always remained strong. Inspired by the physicians who helped her survive, she decided to become a doctor; but her pre medical studies in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) were interrupted in 1982 when the Vietnamese government removed her from school to act as a “national symbol of the war.” Four years later the government permitted her to continue her studies in Cuba, but health issues put an end to her plans to become a doctor.

It was in Cuba that Mrs. Phan Thi met her husband, Toan. They married on September 11, 1992. While on the way back to Havana after their honeymoon in Moscow, the couple defected to Canada during a one-hour layover in Newfoundland, Canada. They now live near Toronto, and Mrs. Phan Thi travels the world as a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Goodwill Ambassador for the Culture of Peace.

Kim Phuc Phan Thi has received seven honorary doctorate degrees from universities in Canada, Australia, the United States, and Mexico for her efforts to help children and end world conflict. She is an Honorary Member of Kingston Rotary, an Honorary Member of St. Albert Rotary, a Member of the Advisory Board for the Wheelchair Foundation, an Honorary Member of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, a Member of the Advisory Board of Free Children's Foundation in Canada, and the World Children's Center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Mrs. Phan Thi is also a recipient of the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal, the 2004 "Order of Ontario,” as well as the International Peace Prize presented in Dresden Germany, February 2019.

Kim is the author of Fire Road, her personal memoir, which has been translated into ten languages.

Listen to Rev. Dr. Ray Aldred, a respected theologian, pastor, and teacher being interviewed by Rev. Dr. Andrew Stirling. Ray is a status Cree from Swan River Band, Treaty 8, and is the Director of the Indigenous Studies Program at the Vancouver School of Theology. In this episode, Ray talks about the gospel being the central foundation of our faith, and how that translates into any heart language, resulting in transformed lives.

Read the transcript: biblesociety.ca/transcript-scripture-untangled-s10-ep3

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Rev. Dr. Ray Aldred is a husband, father, and grandfather. He was first ordained with the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada and is now ordained with the Anglican Church of Canada. He is status Cree from Swan River Band, Treaty 8. Born in Northern Alberta, he now resides with his wife in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. Ray is the Director of the Indigenous Studies Program at the Vancouver School of Theology whose mission is to partner with the Indigenous Church around theological education.

Formerly, Ray served as the Assistant Professor of Theology at Ambrose Seminary in Calgary, Alberta and a former chairperson and board member for Indigenous Pathways. He is a former Director for the First Nations Alliance Churches of Canada, and is now a committee member, where he works to encourage Indigenous churches. Ray has also had the privilege of addressing several college conferences and meetings. His passion is to help as many people as possible hear the gospel in their heart language.

Ray and his wife, Elaine have also been involved in ministry to help train people to facilitate support groups for people who have suffered abuse. Elaine and Ray have also coordinated Marriage Encounter. Ray and Elaine have four adult children, Jenny, who has graduated from the University of Regina and the Alliance University College, a school teacher, is married and lives in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada; Raymond, who is pursuing a PhD in Philosophy at McGill University; Catherine, has earned an MA in Religions Studies at McGill University; and Rueben who works in the Oil Field in Northern Alberta.