Marcus Tso

Biography

My parents didn’t name me Marcus at birth. I chose that name with them shortly after emigrating from Hong Kong to Canada in my early teens. That was also around the time I, along with most of my family, came to a personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ through a Chinese Alliance church in Vancouver. So, the name Marcus signifies my primary identity as a Christian and a Chinese Canadian.  Since then, I have been straddling multiple worlds in various ways—culturally, linguistically, professionally. I have been a mechanical engineer, an English–speaking pastor in a Chinese MB church, and now a Bible scholar specializing in the late Second Temple period. Since childhood, I’ve been drawn to what is real, what is true, and what works – which may explain my apparently random career path. But all these roles have been my responses to God’s call to serve him. Here at Ambrose, I gratefully engage in my passion to connect students to the loving God. I do this through leading students in a careful study of the Christian Scripture, so that they and those they serve can experience what is real, what is true, and what works.  At South Gate Alliance Church, I help teach adult Sunday School, lead young adults, and serve on a worship team. For leisure, I enjoy building scale models and playing strategy board games, or their digital equivalent. I have been married to Daphne since 1993. Next to God and my parents, I owe everything to her. I believe she is an angel in disguise.

Research Interest

Biblical Studies