Profiles

Sarah Kathleen Johnson is assistant professor of liturgy and pastoral theology, director of undergraduate studies (BA, MTS, MDiv), and director of Anglican studies at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Ontario. She is a practical theologian who studies Christian worship in the context of a changing North American religious landscape. Her research at the intersection of liturgical studies and sociology of religion employs qualitative methods that value everyday religious experience. Commitments to interrogating the relationship between liturgy and ethics and engaging ecumenically across Christian traditions ground her research, teaching, and church leadership. Johnson is ordained for ministry in Mennonite Church Eastern Canada. She currently serves as the president of the Canadian Theological Society (2023–24).