Jordan Stratford
Jordan Stratford is a Canadian author of Middle Grade fiction.
He is the author of the Wollstonecraft series (Knopf / Random House), a pro-math and science Middle Grade adventure series for girls 8-12, which was recognized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and was Kickstarter’s most successfully-funded children's publishing project. The first book in the series, “The Case of the Missing Moonstone”, has sold 40,000 copies worldwide, is available in English, Russian, German and Turkish, and was nominated for the BC Book Prize and the Silver Birch Award. The second novel in the series, The Case of the Girl In Grey, was released in January 2016, with The Case of the Counterfeit Criminals due in January 2017.
A Gnostic priest, he was ordained in the Apostolic Johannite Church in 2005, having received a Licentiate of Sacred Theology from St. Raphael the Archangel Theological Seminary. He has written extensively on Gnosticism as a modern spiritual practice and on the history of Alchemy.
In his private life, his career has included being an advertising Creative Director, filmmaker, screenwriter, instructor at Vancouver Film School and writer for CBC.
Books
- 2016 - The Case of the Girl in Grey: The Wollenstonecraft Detective Agency Book 2, Jordan Statford and Kelly Murphy
- 2015 - The Case of the Missing Moonstone: The Wollenstonecraft Detective Agency Book 1, Jordan Stratford and Kelly Murphy
- 2011 - A Dictionary of Western Alchemy, Jordan Stratford, Quest Books, 2007, ISBN 0835608972
- 2007 - Living Gnosticism, Jordan Stratford, Apocryphile Press, 2007, ISBN 1933993537
Controversy
Stratford is a major proponent of the idea that Gnosticism has its origins in a Middle Platonism and influenced by pre-Christian Paganism; a contention that is still being debated.[1]