76 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine ARTS, MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT LINDA VOGT TURNER PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE Intercontinental Open University New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada Driven by a passion for peace, social justice and the integrity of creation, Linda Vogt Turner has distinguished herself as a writer, speaker, theologian, and educator. Leveraging more than four decades of multifaceted experience, she is currently a clinical professor in creative writing at Intercontinental Open University (IOU). As part of her own academic career, Dr. Vogt Turner achieved a Doctor of Humane Letters for her exceptional creative writing in 2017. Motivated by her religious faith, Dr. Vogt Turner focuses on the figure of Mary Magdalene and her status as the Bride of Christ and mother of Christianity. In 2011, she completed her studies toward an MA at Simon Fraser University (SFU), where she defended her thesis project, “Mary Magdalene: Her Image and Relationship to Jesus.” Throughout her career, she has also written and published on topics of faith, culture and theology, including her self-published work, “The Ecumenical Affair,” a true story of faith and redemption that explores coincidental encounters at two Assemblies of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the theological controversy that followed. Putting her faith into action, Dr. Vogt Turner has attended many symposia connected with the Orthodox Academy of Crete (OAC). She also chaired the 2012 Inter-Ecology and Theological Symposium (Ecothee) at Bethany-Newton United Church in Surrey, British Columbia. She personally aided in bringing Dr. Alexandros Papaderos, the former 40-year director of the OAC, and Dr. Luke Andrianos, the chair of Ecothee working with the OAC, to the event, along with their wives and the three children of Dr. Andrianos. Dr. Vogt Turner believes there are no coincidences, only godly incidences and divine providence. Prior to completing her MA and her involvement with the OAC and the IOU, she was a staff member at SFU for six years. However, when attending the first Ecothee at the OAC in 2008, she was also a graduate student. She fondly remembers her meeting with Dr. Andrianos, who coincidentally attended SFU as a post-doctoral fellow prior to her becoming a staff member of that same faculty. https://lindavogtturner.ca/
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