Naomi — As of the beginning of December, I will be handing over the editorship of Faith Tides to our Interim Editor, Roland Hui. I will be on maternity leave for one year and will return in December 2023. I’m looking forward to meeting the new addition to our family — a little sister for my three-year-old daughter — and I feel confident that I will be leaving Faith Tides in good hands. Read on to find out a bit more about Roland and you can contact him at [email protected].
Roland — Like Naomi, I also hail from Manchester, England, where my family lived for a while after emigrating from Hong Kong. It was actually my interest in English history that set me on a path to becoming a writer and editor.
When I was about ten and settled in Canada, where we later moved to, we revisited Britain for a vacation. Besides the usual tourist attractions, we went to the popular Madame Tussaud’s wax museum. As a kid, I was terrified by its infamous “Chamber of Horrors,” but I was utterly fascinated by the waxworks of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry VIII and his six wives, and the like. That kindled what would become a lifelong passion for 16th century history, and I have since become a published author and a writer of academic articles on the subject.
My other interest is in art history, and after I completed a university degree in that field, I went on to work for various government agencies across the United States in interpretive media. These opportunities gave me a love for presenting natural resources and events of the past to the public through engagement and storytelling.
As the Interim Editor of Faith Tides, I want to continue in that vein to tell interesting and important stories, and to present the people behind them. I invite you on this journey with me. When I’m not at my desk typing up a storm or researching dusty old documents in a library, I can be found at my parish as “your friendly neighbourhood thurifer”.
