En route to his degrees in science, theology and philosophy of religion, he also studied at Union College, and in Oxford and Chicago.
To peruse his publications is to identify issues that were central in Canadian Christian life during the more than thirty years of his professional ministry.
called us to free Scripture from the spiritual strait-jackets into which we had placed it; while The Lordship of Jesus challenged liberal Canadian churches to wrestle seriously with the meaning of their Christology.
When the First Nation peoples of the north-west coast invited VST to partner with them in finding an innovative way to prepare leadership for Christian ministry in their communities, David gave energetic and imaginative support on the team which created VST's Native Ministries Degree Programme.
His revolutionary thinking about Theology in a Digital World, and the new possibilities of human community that would emerge with the World-Wide Web finally received overdue international recognition in 1998, when he was made the recipient of a prestigious Lilly Foundation Grant, as a Faculty Fellow.
He was the executive director of the Institute for Religion, Technology and Culture and was the founding president of ECUNET,[4] the interdenominational computer network.