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
  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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