Francis G.H. Pang

Francis joined the faculty at McMaster Divinity College in 2016, having taught Biblical Greek there since 2014. His research interests center on the language and texts of the New Testament. His dissertation examined the verbal system of Hellenistic Greek, exploring how lexical semantics interacts with Greek verbal aspect. More recently, he has turned his attention to disability studies and the Bible, while continuing to engage with the synoptic gospels and the early-church development of eschatological thoughts.

Originally from Hong Kong, Francis has spent more than half of his adult life in Ontario, including the last 18 years in Hamilton. Prior to his tenure at MDC, he taught at the Alliance Bible Seminary Centre of Canada, ministering to the Chinese Christian Communities in the Greater Toronto Area, Montreal, and Vancouver. He is actively involved with A Deeper Communion, a network that brings together Canadian ministry leaders, practitioners, and academics at the intersection of disability and theology.

Francis lives in Waterdown with his wife Irene, and their two children. They belong to a small church where they are deeply involved in climate justice initiatives and disability ministries.