Julius-Kei Kato is an Associate Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at King’s. Identity-wise, he is a proud Filipino-Japanese-Canadian hybrid. He was born and raised in Manila, the Philippines, but left his mother’s country to live, study and work in Japan, his father’s country, for twelve years. He did graduate studies in Jerusalem (Hebrew University) and Rome, where he obtained a Licentiate in Sacred Scriptures (S.S.L.) from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in 1998. After teaching at his alma mater (Sophia University in Tokyo), he moved to Berkeley, California, where he received a Ph.D. in Systematic & Philosophical Theology from the Graduate Theological Union in 2006. He is currently writing his third monograph on how to relate with the Bible “as its grown-up child.”