Wallace B. Clift

Wallace Bruce Clift taught psychology of religion at the University of Denver from 1969 to 1992, and in 1981 helped start its joint Ph.D. program in religious and theological studies with the Iliff School of Theology. Clift co-founded the C. G. Jung Society of Colorado in 1976, and served as its first president. After his retirement from the University of Denver in 1992, Clift was appointed Canon Theologian of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado and invited to head the Anglican Studies program at St. Thomas Theological Seminary. When St. Thomas closed in 1995, Clift and the Episcopal diocesan bishop negotiated the Anglican Studies program's move to the Methodist Iliff School of Theology, where Clift continued to head the program for another seven years.

In 2000, Bette Lanning endowed the Wallace B. and Jean Dalby Clift Scholarship Fund at Iliff to provide funds for students enrolled in its Anglican Studies Program. Church Divinity School of the Pacific awarded Clift an honorary doctorate in 2003. Clift served as President of the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado from 1989 to 1990 and is Canon Theologian Emeritus of the diocese.

Wallace Clift currently lives in Olympia, WA with his wife and co-author Jean Dalby Clift.