Jason E. Mills, PhD

Jason E. Mills, PhD, is a theologian, author, seminary dean, military chaplain, podcaster, and experienced institutional leader. He serves as Dean of the Seminary at Briercrest College and Seminary and Assistant Professor of Spiritual Theology. Jason provides leadership to the seminary faculty and staff and strategically oversees Co-Vocational Canada and the Centre for Leadership Studies.

Jason brings more than twenty years of experience across pastoral ministry, theological education, organizational leadership, and chaplaincy. His work has included leading organizations through transition, developing strategic direction, restructuring teams, facilitating conversations about change and conflict, reviewing academic programs, hiring and developing leaders, and helping churches and institutions reconsider how people are formed for ministry.

He hosts The Thinking Teams Podcast, convenes the Deans and Provosts Group for Christian Higher Education Canada, and has collaborated with academic, denominational, congregational, and Canadian Armed Forces leaders. He currently serves as a Reserve Unit Chaplain with the Royal Regina Rifles and has worked with the Office of the Chaplain General, leading facilitated exercises and writing about the redefinition of chaplain identity in the Canadian Armed Forces.

Jason holds a PhD in Theological Studies from the University of St. Michael’s College, where he received the Governor General’s Gold Medal for achieving the highest academic standing at the graduate level. His research focuses on theological education, pastoral formation, ecclesiology, chaplaincy, technology, and sustainable models of bivocational and covocational ministry.

He is the author of Glassroom Learning: Virtual Culture and Online Pastoral Education and Wages in the Kingdom: Learning from Bivocational Ministry Models in the Early Church, forthcoming from IVP Academic in May 2027. His academic and professional writing has also appeared in Pastoral Psychology, the Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Faith Today, the Toronto Journal of Theology, and other publications.

Across his work, Jason helps leaders and institutions think differently about consequential questions, bringing more voices into the conversation, clarifying direction, and moving from ideas toward meaningful action.