Dr. Wing Yi Wong

Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology
Acting Coordinator of Contextual Education including the Summer Distance Program

A head and shoulders photo of Wing Yi Wong

Wing Yi Wong
Pastoral Theology

Wing.Yi.Wong@astheology.ns.ca
United Church of Canada
PROFILE

Dr. Wong (she/her) holds a PhD in Homiletics (Emmanuel College, University of Toronto), a ThM in preaching (Princeton Theological Seminary), an MDiv (Alliance Bible Seminary, Hong Kong), and an BA in Anthropology (Chinese University of Hong Kong). Wing Yi is a candidate for ordination in the United Church of Canada. She also brings over a decade of intercultural ministry experience from Hong Kong and North America to her work, where she teaches practical theology, preaching, and worship. She was a Louisville Dissertation Fellow. Her research focuses on haunto-postcolonial preaching, trauma studies, and intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches to practical theology.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  • “Unearthing the Disturbing Ghosts of The Postcolonial Lands That Linger After the Sermon.” Homiletics 49, no. 1 (June 2024): 30–38.
  • “Blue Note Preaching: Living Within the Dissonance.” Jian Dao: A Journal of Bible and Theology 55 (January, 2021): 25–43.
  • “A Healing Journey: Preaching Narrative in Eugene Lowry’s Model to the Wounded Hearers in the Context of Hong Kong.” Jian Dao: A Journal of Bible and Theology 54 (July, 2020): 283–304.
  • (with Man Lap Terry Yeung) 60 Bible Characters for Daily Devotion. Renewal Resource Publisher, 2019.