The Reverend Dr. Charles Fensham is Professor of Systematic Theology at Knox College. Charles was born in Stellenbosch, South Africa. He was ordained in 1982 in South Africa and served as Pastor in Congregations in South Africa and also taught at the University of South Africa. During the 1980s, Charles ministered in inter-cultural youth work in France, Switzerland and the South Pacific. After being involved in the Anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa, Charles moved to Canada in 1988 and ministered in two congregations in Southern Ontario. In 2008 Charles published, Emerging from the Dark Age Ahead: The Future of the North American Church. His latest book is To the Nations for the Earth: A Missional Spirituality.