Mike Garde

Mike Garde is a South African born theologian and an expert on cults. He is the director of Dialogue Ireland.^[1] Garde is a Mennonite^[2] and is a member of Grosvenor Baptist Church in Rathmines. In 1978 he was supported by the London Mennonist Mission, in establishing the Irish Mennonist Mission in Dublin. He was the first non-Catholic to study for the Bachelor of Divinity at St Patrick's College, Maynooth in 1975.^[3] He also gained an H.Dip in Education. Prior to attending Maynooth he studied for a Diploma in Theology at the Irish Baptist College in Belfast and University College London. He received an MA in Theology in 2006 from the Milltown Institute in Dublin.^[4] Garde appears regularly on radio and TV discussing cults in Ireland on behalf of Dialogue Ireland, and speaks in secondary schools in Ireland on the dangers of cults.

References

^ The Cult Watchdog The Irish Times, March 22, 2000.
^ Irish Mennonite Movement
^ Under-fire church to break from tradition by Joanna Kiernan, Irish Independent, May 13, 2012.
^ Mike Garde Dialogue Ireland.

[1] The Cult Watchdog The Irish Times, March 22, 2000.

[2] Irish Mennonite Movement

[3] Under-fire church to break from tradition by Joanna Kiernan, Irish Independent, May 13, 2012.

[4] Mike Garde Dialogue Ireland.

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