Stuart McLeod Blythe comes originally from the small town of Uddingston, near Glasgow, Scotland (home of Tunnock’s Carmel Wafers).
His education includes qualifications in History, Theology, and Education.
He gained his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2009. The title was: “Open Air Preaching as Radical Street Performance.”
Between 2017 and 2024 he lived with his wife Susanne in the small and beautiful Nova Scotian town of Wolfville in Canada (no there are no wolves!)
During that time he was the John Gladstone Professor in Preaching and Worship at Acadia Divinity College. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the IBTS Centre in Amsterdam.
His research interests include preaching as public speaking, rhetoric, the power of stories and the life and oratory of Scottish born Canadian Tommy Douglas (who led the first Socialist government in North America).
He says of Douglas and maybe himself:
“No one should doubt the strength of the imbibed convictions that can come from being raised in a Scottish, Robert Burn’s loving, socialist, working-class family.”
Since 2024 he has been the “pastor” of Auldhouse Community Church on the South Side of Glasgow.
He has a Canadian rescue dog called Sitka, he says, “probably the sweetest of all the rescue dogs we have owned”.
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