Charles grew up in a German Methodist denomination, developed a love for church history and received his PhD in Early Modern European/Reformation History from the University of Waterloo in 1985.

For 30 years, he served as Visiting Professor of Christian Spirituality at Tyndale Seminary and he is Professor Emeritus of Christian History and Spirituality at Ambrose University.

A global traveller, he was extensively exposed to the global Christian heritage and the diverse ways in which the Christian faith has incarnated itself across a broad spectrum of host cultures.

“Christian spirituality” in its diverse, often disparate forms of expression, has been a primary focus of his life. He has had life-empowering, formative experiences in Protestant, Roman Catholic, Anglican, Pentecostal/Charismatic and Eastern Orthodox traditions while seeking to understand and teach the unifying points of convergence, as well as the conflict creating differences that exist in the global Christian community.

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