About Ignaria

I grew up as a missionary kid on a First Nations reservation in northern Canada. My parents served there for decades, and I spent my childhood at the intersection of two worlds — one shaped by the ancient rhythms of indigenous community life, the other by the Christian faith my family carried with them. That upbringing gave me an early sense that the Christian tradition is larger and older than any single congregation or denomination.

I came to theology largely on my own. I am self-taught across most of what I know, though I spent a year and a half in graduate theological studies at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis, Tennessee. That formal study sharpened my instincts but didn't produce them — I had been reading theology and philosophyfor years before I set foot in a classroom.

The problem I kept running into was access. Primary sources are scattered across volumes, archives, and library shelves. Finding what Tertullian actually said about a specific doctrine, or tracing how the early Church understood baptism, requires hours of searching through indexes and anthologies — time most pastors, writers, and theology students simply don't have.

I built Ignaria to solve that problem. The tool gives you direct access to the primary source corpus — blockquoted, cited, and searchable — so that reading the Church Fathers doesn't require a seminary library or days of research time.