John Span

The Rev Dr. John Span is ordained as a commissioned pastor in the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) and is part of the Returning Church, a group of pastors working towards a return to orthodoxy within the denomination. From 2000–2011, Dr. Span worked with a CRC missions’ team among the Fulbe who Islamized Guinea. In 2012, Dr. Span moved to Egypt, where he served for three years as the Vice-Principal of the Alexandria School of Theology. From 2020 until July 2026, he taught at Mukhanyo Theological College in Rustenburg, South Africa and has been sent out by Global Scholars, Canada. At present he is teaching ThM Research Methods in a partnership between Mukhanyo and Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and is a regular contributor to the Korean Theological Journal and the Hapshin Theological Review. In April 2019 he completed his Ph.D. thesis at the John Calvin Faculty in Aix-en-Provence, France. His dissertation analyzes the attempted Christianization of the Qur’an in evangelistic strategies and examines their presuppositions from a Reformed and historical perspective. This thesis and other articles are hosted at academia.edu.