Background
Mardi Tindal was born on September 17, 1952, in Victoria Square, Ontario, Canada.
Mardi Tindal was born on September 17, 1952, in Victoria Square, Ontario, Canada.
Mardi Tindal received a Bachelor of Arts at York University in 1975 and a Master of Arts at the University of Toronto in 1977.
Mardi Tindal served as a co-host and story producer at the Spirit Connection, a television show, from 1988 to 1997. Then she was a host and producer of television shows for television Ontario for two years. Then Tindal started to serve at the Five Oaks Centre as an adult program coordinator, and then an executive director in 2004. After that, she became the 40th Moderator at the United Church of Canada. Tindal was only the fourth layperson who held that position since the United Church's inception in 1925. Since 2012, Mardi Tindal is a facilitator with the Center for Courage & Renewal, speaker, and consultant. She leads forums, organizational meetings, and retreats, creating trustworthy spaces by which people reconnect with their own integrity and develop relationships of integrity, sustaining their courageous leadership.
As a writer, Mardi Tindal turned her own spiritual quest into a book for those who are facing midlife crises. Soul Maps: A Guide to the Midlife Spirit contains advice from people of varied faiths and walks of life who have managed to turn the middle years into a period of intellectual and emotional growth. Each chapter in the book contains questions to help the reader define and focus upon a spiritual search while redefining relationships with parents and children.
Mardi Tindal is well known as a speaker, writer, and host. She served in television Canada for more than a decade. Additionally, she was the 40th Moderator at the United Church of Canada, the fourth layperson who held that position since the United Church's inception in 1925. Mardi Tindal also is a holder of the Aurora Gold Awards for the documentary, reporting, religious issues, and editing, all for video Soul Maps and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of her contributions to Canada in 2012.
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2000Quotations: "At forty-six, I was knee-deep in spiritual confusion as a person for whom the spirit is critically important. I needed some mid-life wisdom, so I went looking for wise, spiritually attuned mid-lifers and found them everywhere."
Mardi Tindal has a husband, Doug, and two sons, Alex and Chris.
