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  • Clare Amos

    Clare Amos has taught Biblical Studies in Beirut, Jerusalem and Cambridge. She has worked for USPG, the Anglican Communion and the World Council of…

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    Clare Amos
  • Margaret B. Adam

    Margaret B. Adam lives at St Stephen’s House, Oxford, where she is Visiting Tutor for Contemporary Christian Ethics. She has previously taught…

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    Margaret B. Adam
  • David Alton

    David, Lord Alton, a senior lay British Catholic, is very active in the political life of the nation and the world. He is a former Liberal Party and…

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    David Alton
  • Clive Aslet

    Clive Aslet is Editor-at-Large of Country Life, having been architectural editor from 1984, deputy editor from 1989, and editor-in-chief from 1993.…

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    Clive Aslet
  • Peter Atkinson

    Peter Atkinson served in parishes in south London, Surrey, Bath, and Sussex. He was principal of Chichester Theological College 1991–4, c…

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    Peter Atkinson
  • Richard Backhouse

    Richard Backhouse read Economics at Selwyn College, Cambridge, with the sincere intention of becoming a journalist. Initially distrac…

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    Richard Backhouse
  • Jill Baker

    ​Born in Wolverhampton to a family both steeped in Methodism and committed to walking in the countryside, Jill’s life has since taken her acro…

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    Jill Baker
  • Christine Barnabas

    ​Christine Barnabas is a spiritual director, retreat leader and writer. She also works for and is a Companion of the Northumbria Community, a disper…

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    Christine Barnabas
  • John Barnett

    ​John Barnett was ordained in 1977 and worked in parish ministry in Birmingham and the Black Country until his retirement forty years later. In 2003…

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    John Barnett
  • Frederick C. Bauerschmidt

    Frederick C. (Fritz) Bauerschmidt is a deacon of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore (ordained 2007) and Professor of Theology at Loyola Uni…

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    Frederick C. Bauerschmidt
  • Robert Beaken

    Robert Beaken was born in London in 1962. He trained for ordination in the Church of England at Cuddesdon, and studied as an ecumenical student at t…

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    Robert Beaken
  • David Bebbington

    David Bebbington is a Professor of History at the University of Stirling

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    David Bebbington
  • Kathryn Bedford

    Kathryn Bedford was born and grew up in Kent, and completed BA, MA and PhD degrees at Durham University in the departments of Classics, History…

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    Kathryn Bedford
  • Susan Bell

    Susan Bell trained as a teacher at St Hild’s College, Durham, followed by a Masters Degree in Education from Cardiff University. After teachin…

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    Susan Bell
  • Nick Bion

    Nick Bion joined the company his father started shortly after leaving university over 30 years ago. The company, which he now largely…

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    Nick Bion
  • Catherine Bird

    Having previously worked in social policy and research in the voluntary sector, Cathy was ordained as a Presbyter in the Methodist Church in 1997.&n…

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    Catherine Bird
  • Ian Black

    Ian Black is Vicar of Peterborough and Canon Residentiary of Peterborough Cathedral. He has written several popular books of prayers and intercessio…

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    Ian Black
  • Peter Bold

    Peter Bold is Rector of Ashover, Handley, Brackenfield and Wessington in the Diocese of Derby. He is passionate about team work, sharing h…

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    Peter Bold
  • Josephine (Phina) Borgeson

    Josephine (Phina) Borgeson was ordained deacon in 1974 and serves in the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California. Her community work centres on foo…

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    Josephine (Phina) Borgeson
  • Anne Boyd
  • Ian Bradley

    ​Ian Bradley read modern history at Oxford University where he graduated with a congratulatory first-class degree and went on to gain a doctorate fo…

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    Ian Bradley
  • Paul F. Bradshaw

    Paul F. Bradshaw is the Emeritus Professor of Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, specialising in the history of liturgy. He trained for the pr…

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    Paul F. Bradshaw
  • Michael Brierley

    Michael Brierley was canon precentor of Worcester, and is now director of formation at Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford.

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    Michael Brierley
  • Richard S. Briggs

    ​Richard S. Briggs is an ordained minister in the Church of England, and has taught in theological education for over 20 years, mainly in Durham. He…

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    Richard S. Briggs
  • Michael Brooks

    Michael Brooks was born in 1957 in Cambridgeshire. He attended Northampton Grammar School for Boys after which he studied at King’s College Lo…

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    Michael Brooks
  • Rosalind Brown

    Rosalind Brown, after a few years living in the United States, during which she was ordained, trained people for ordination in the United Kingdom. S…

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    Rosalind Brown
  • David O. Brown

    David O. Brown studied theology at Canterbury Christ Church University. After studying a range of courses from Patristics to Medieval myst…

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    David O. Brown
  • Brian A. Butcher

    Brian A. Butcher, a sub-deacon in the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church, is Lecturer and Research Fellow in Eastern Christian Studies in the Facu…

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    Brian A. Butcher
  • Frank Canosa

    Frank Canosa is a Visiting Professor at the University of Buckingham, where he has taught post-graduate courses in corporate finance,…

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    Frank Canosa
  • Luiz F. Cardoso

    Luiz F. Cardoso (B.Sc. Theology, M.A. Mission and Evangelism) has been a pastor in multiple countries for fifteen years and currently pastors Connec…

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    Luiz F. Cardoso
  • Kevin Carey

    Kevin Carey is one of Sacristy Press’s founding and most prolific authors, writing Christian literature in all major forms: novels, non-fictio…

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    Kevin Carey
  • Benjamin Carter

    Benjamin Carter is the Vicar of the Parishes by the Wall in the Diocese of Newcastle, which take in many of the most famous sections of Hadrian&rsqu…

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    Benjamin Carter
  • Luca Cesarini

    Luca Cesarini was born in Rome in 1960 of an Italian father and a Swedish mother. After finishing school, he moved to Sweden, where he graduated at…

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    Luca Cesarini
  • Michael Chandler

    Michael Chandler is an historian and author of several books on the Church of England in the nineteenth century. He holds a Lambeth Diploma in Theol…

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    Michael Chandler
  • Mark D. Chapman

    Mark D. Chapman is Vice-Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon and Professor of the History of Modern Theology at the University of Oxford. An An…

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    Mark D. Chapman
  • Richard Chartres

    Richard Chartres was Bishop of London from 1995 to 2017. Following his retirement he was made a life peer and sits in the House of Lords as a cross-…

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    Richard Chartres
  • Stephen Cherry

    Stephen Cherry is Dean of King’s College, Cambridge. Formerly he was a Canon of Durham Cathedral and has extensive experience in parish minist…

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    Stephen Cherry
  • David Clark

    ​David Clark was a Methodist deacon. As a presbyter in the Methodist Church, he served in circuits in Sheffield and inner London, before moving to b…

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    David Clark
  • Jonathan Clatworthy

    Jonathan Clatworthy is a theological author and Anglican priest. His main research interest is the ethical significance of monotheism. In the past,…

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    Jonathan Clatworthy
  • Mark Cleary

    Mark Cleary was born in Birmingham into a large Roman Catholic family. Seven of the eight children in the family were educated at a range of Catholi…

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    Mark Cleary
  • Paula Clifford

    Dr Paula Clifford has published widely on topics as diverse as medieval French and popular theology. Having been a regular contributor to BBC Radio…

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    Paula Clifford
  • Jan Collis

    Jan Collis is a Church of England priest and hospital chaplain. Jan’s first career was as a psychologist and she became Senior Research Fellow…

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    Jan Collis
  • Stephen Conway

    Stephen Conway has been Bishop of Ely since 2011. Previously he was Archdeacon of Durham and Bishop of Ramsbury.

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    Stephen Conway
  • Stephen Cottrell

    Stephen Cottrell is the Archbishop of York. He was previously Bishop of Chelmsford and Bishop of Reading. He is President of Affirming Cat…

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    Stephen Cottrell
  • Steven Croft

    Steven Croft was born and brought up in Halifax and has lived most of his life in the north of England working as a Vicar in Ovenden in Halifax and…

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    Steven Croft
  • Keith Croxton

    Keith Croxton has been a Trustee Director of Chapter 1 Housing Association since 1996. Prior to that, he was a career civil&nbsp…

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    Keith Croxton
  • Christopher Cunliffe

    Chrisopher Cunliffe was born in Kingston-upon-Thames and grew up in and around London, although his family roots are in the Northwest of England. Af…

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    Christopher Cunliffe
  • Richard Cunningham

    Richard Cunningham is the Director of UCCF: the Christian Unions, a position that he has held since 2004. He was previously Executive Director of th…

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    Richard Cunningham
  • Douglas Dales

    Douglas Dales is a parish priest in the diocese of Oxford and was for many years Chaplain of Marlborough College. He is married with three grow…

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    Douglas Dales
  • John Davey

    John Davey was born five years before the outbreak of WWII and his earliest memory is of being evacuated from London at the age of four to St Ives,…

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    John Davey
  • John Davies

    John Davies is Research Fellow in the College of Arts, University of Glasgow and teaches in Theology and Religious Studies. His fields include the h…

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    John Davies
  • Claire Dawson

    Claire Dawson has been priest in charge of St John and St James Church Bootle in the Liverpool Diocese since 2010; she initially joined the parish i…

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    Claire Dawson
  • Rosie Deedes

    Rosie Deedes has worked as chaplain in several women’s prisons, a prison of male sex offenders, a university, and as the Spiritual Care Lead a…

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    Rosie Deedes
  • William B. Dillingham

    William Dillingham is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of American Literature Emeritus​​ at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, where he taugh…

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    William B. Dillingham
  • Gregory Dunstan

    Gregory Dunstan was born and educated in England. A first career in landscape architecture led him to Ireland in 1977. After ordination in 1990, he…

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    Gregory Dunstan
  • Prof. Mark Edwards

    Mark Edwards is Professor of Early Christian Studies at Oxford University, and tutor in theology at Christ Church College. His research interes…

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    Mark Edwards
  • Susanne Watson Epting

    Susanne Watson Epting was ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church of the USA in 1989. She served as a board member of the Association for Episcopal…

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    Susanne Watson Epting
  • Nick Fane

    Nick Fane has been a teacher, education officer, and local government executive, often involved in the complex issues of allocating f…

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    Nick Fane
  • Peter Fanning

    ​Peter Fanning is a teacher, theatre director, journalist, and writer. He is the author of three novels—including two for young adults—a…

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    Peter Fanning
  • David Fergusson

    David Fergusson has recently taken up the post of Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He was previously Professor of Divini…

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    David Fergusson
  • Frank Field MP

    Frank Field has been the Labour MP for Birkenhead since 1979. He chaired the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England from 2005 to 2015 and founded…

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    Frank Field
  • Stuart Fisher

    Stuart Fisher was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire in 1954 and grew up in Peterlee, County Durham, where he showed a prodigious artistic talent at an…

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    Stuart Fisher
  • Leslie J. Francis

    Leslie J. Francis is Professor of Religions and Psychology at the University of Warwick and author of numerous books on theology, psychology an…

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    Leslie J. Francis
  • James M. M. Francis

    ​James M. M. Francis grew up in Aberdeenshire and studied classics and then theology at Edinburgh University and Yale Divinity School. While trainin…

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    James M. M. Francis
  • Michael Fuller

    Michael Fuller studied chemistry, taking a doctorate for work in the field of synthetic organic chemistry, before studying theology and being ordain…

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    Michael Fuller
  • Jenny Gage

    ​​Having been a failed Baptist ordinand in the mid-70s, Jenny Gage was surprised (to put it mildly) when she experienced a renewed call to ministry…

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    Jenny Gage
  • Martin Gainsborough

    Martin Gainsborough is Bishop of Kingston in the Diocese of Southwark. He has served in an inner-city parish, as a residentiary canon at Bristo…

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    Martin Gainsborough
  • Richard Gameson

    Richard Gameson is Professor of the History of the Book at Durham University. He has published more than 100 studies of medieval manuscripts, book c…

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    Richard Gameson
  • Peter Gant

    Peter Gant studied physics at Oxford and theology at Cambridge. After ordination and a curacy at St Mary Portsea, he worked as vicar of a parish in…

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    Peter Gant
  • Tim Gibson

    ​Tim Gibson is a writer, priest and academic based in rural Somerset. Currently Deputy Head of the School of Creative and Cultural Industries at UWE…

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    Tim Gibson
  • John Gill

    John Gill is a semi-retired Australian psychiatrist, having conducted a private practice for over thirty years in general adult psychiatry…

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    John Gill
  • Robert Gillies

    Robert Gillies was Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney in the Scottish Episcopal Church until his retirement in 2016. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in…

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    Robert Gillies
  • ​Barbara Glasson

    ​Barbara Glasson is a Methodist Minister and author, currently teaching pastoral theology at the Queen's Foundation, Birmingham. Throughout her…

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    ​Barbara Glasson
  • David Goodacre

    ​David Goodacre is a retired priest living in Newcastle. Ordained in 1960, almost all his ministry has been in the Northeast of England. For the las…

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    David Goodacre
  • David Goodhew

    David Goodhew is Director of Ministerial Practice at Cranmer Hall, a theological college which is part of St John’s College, Durham. He is als…

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    David Goodhew
  • Timothy Gorringe

    ​Tim Gorringe is an Anglican priest who has taught in India, Oxford, St Andrews and Exeter. He is married and runs a smallholding in mid Devon.&nbsp…

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    Timothy Gorringe
  • Lionel Green

    Lionel Green grew up in Merton in Surrey, and was a founder member, and ultimately President, of Merton Historical Society. He researched Merton Pri…

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    Lionel Green
  • Barbara Greig

    Barbara Greig was born in Sunderland and lived in Roker until her family moved to Teesdale when she was eight. A voracious reader, she also discover…

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    Barbara Greig
  • Mary C. Grey

    Mary Grey is a Roman Catholic liberation theologian, until recently DJ James Professor of Pastoral Theology at the University of Wales, Visiting Pro…

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    Mary C. Grey
  • David Grieve

    David Grieve is an Anglican priest, married with three grown-up children, who retired in 1989 at the age of 37 due to a breakdown. He writes poetry…

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    David Grieve
  • Jon Grogan

    Jon Grogan is a lawyer and lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He is married with two children.

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    Jon Grogan
  • David Gunn-Johnson

    David Gunn-Johnson was born in London in 1949, the first child of a Pentecostal Minister. His journey from those beginnings to his present priesthoo…

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    David Gunn-Johnson
  • W. G. Hale

    Professor William G. Hale graduated with a degree in Zoology from the University of Durham in 1959, followed by a PhD in 1962 and a DSc in 1985. He…

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    W. G. Hale
  • Alan Hargrave

    Alan Hargrave was born in a terraced house in the middle of Leeds—an area now buried under university buildings and an inner ci…

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    Alan Hargrave
  • Rosie Harper

    Rosie Harper was born in London, and grew up in Norwich. She is both British and Swiss. After graduating from Birmingham Universi…

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    Rosie Harper
  • Alana Harris

    Alana Harris is a product of the Australian post-conciliar Church, but was immersed from an early age in the devotional life of ultramontane Irish C…

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    Alana Harris
  • Harriet Harris

    Harriet Harris MBE is University Chaplain and Head of Chaplaincy Service at the University of Edinburgh. She is Honorary Fellow of the Divinity Scho…

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    Harriet Harris
  • Chris Harris

    ​Chris Harris was born into a devout and active Catholic family in Birmingham. A graduate of the Universities of London, Liverpool and Louvain in Be…

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    Chris Harris
  • Carol Harrison

    Carol Harrison has been Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford since January 2015 and is the first woman to hold this posit…

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    Carol Harrison
  • Trevor Hart

    Trevor Hart is Rector of St Andrew’s, St Andrew’s in the Diocese of St Andrew’s, Dunkeld and Dublane, and Honorary Professor of Di…

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    Trevor Hart
  • Helen-Ann Hartley

    Helen-Ann Hartley is the Bishop of Ripon, having previously served as Bishop of Waikato in New Zealand (2014–17). She was the first female Chu…

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    Helen-Ann Hartley
  • Paul Hedges

    Paul Hedges is Associate Professor at SRP, RSIS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has published 14 books and over 80 academic pa…

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    Paul Hedges
  • Stewart Henderson

    Stewart Henderson is a Sony Award-nominated broadcaster, songwriter and poet. He hosted Questions, Questions on BBC Radio 4 for ten years, as w…

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    Stewart Henderson
  • Nicholas Henshall

    Nicholas Henshall has been Dean of Chelmsford since 2014. He served as a parish priest for fourteen years in inner-city Newcastle, followed by six y…

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    Nicholas Henshall
  • Michael Henshall

    Michael Henshall was educated at Manchester Grammar School and St Chad’s College, Durham. After ordination in 1957 he began his career wi…

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    Michael Henshall
  • Simon Hewitt

    Simon Hewitt teaches and researches in theology and philosophy, and is a research fellow at the University of Leeds. He is active in left-…

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    Simon Hewitt
  • Michael Higgins

    Michael Higgins holds two First Class Honours degrees in law and a Cambridge doctorate in the subject. He is a former Choate Fellow at Harvard Unive…

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    Michael Higgins
  • Dr Janet Hodgson

    Born in Cape Town (South Africa) in 1936, Janet has lived at the Cape all her life, except for fourteen years as a mission theologian in the United…

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    Janet Hodgson
  • John Holdsworth

    ​John Holdsworth has spent most of his life as an Anglican priest in Wales, though a Yorkshireman. Latterly he had executive responsibility for the…

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    John Holdsworth
  • Jeffrey R. Holland

    Elder Jeffrey R. Holland was ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1994. He w…

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    Jeffrey R. Holland
  • Nicholas Holtam

    Nicholas Holtam is a retired bishop of the Church of England. He served as Bishop of Salisbury from 2011 until hi…

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    Nicholas Holtam
  • Peter Hopkins
  • David Hoyle

    David Hoyle has been Dean of Westminster since 2019. Before that he had been a parish priest and more recently Canon Residentiary of Gloucester…

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    David Hoyle
  • Hilary Jane Hughes

    Hilary Jane Hughes was born in Essex and became a Christian in her teenage years. Having suffered abuse within the family during her childhood,…

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    Hilary Jane Hughes
  • Colin Humphreys

    Colin Humphreys is a current Director of Research at Cambridge University as well as Professor of Experimental Physics at the Royal Institution in L…

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    Colin Humphreys
  • John Gaunt Hunter

    John Gaunt Hunter was ordained in 1951 to serve on the staff of Bradford Cathedral. He worked in a variety of different settings, including an inner…

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    John Gaunt Hunter
  • Christopher Irvine

    Christopher Irvine is Canon Librarian and Director of Education at Canterbury Cathedral, and was formerly the Principal of the College of the Resurr…

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    Christopher Irvine
  • D. Michael Jackson

    Ordained to the diaconate in 1977, D. Michael Jackson is the longest-serving deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada. He is author of two studies on…

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    D. Michael Jackson
  • Graham James

    Graham James was Bishop of Norwich from 1999 to 2019.

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    Graham James
  • David Jasper

    David Jasper FRSE is a theologian, Professor Emeritus of Literature and Theology and former Dean of Theology at the University of Glasgow. He gradua…

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    David Jasper
  • Alison Jasper

    Alison Jasper was Senior Lecturer in Religion and Feminist Studies at the University of Stirling. She was awarded her PhD by the University of Glasg…

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    Alison Jasper
  • Anthony Jennings

    Anthony Jennings read classics and philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford, before qualifying as a solicitor. As Senior Legal Adviser and Company Secr…

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    Anthony Jennings
  • Penny Johnson

    Penny Johnson is an independent counsellor who specializes in trauma and is particularly interested in spirituality. She has spoken at Safeguarding…

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    Penny Johnson
  • Gloria Marie Jones OP

    Gloria Marie Jones, OP, served eleven years as Congregational Prioress for the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, an international Roman Catholi…

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    Gloria Marie Jones
  • Anne Keffer

    Anne Keffer was consecrated a Lutheran deaconess in 1964. As Director of Christian Education and Youth Ministry, she served large urban congregation…

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    Anne Keffer
  • Rob Kelsey

    ​Rob Kelsey has been a priest in the Church of England for over twenty years, but originally worked as a civil engineer. He served his curacy i…

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    Rob Kelsey
  • Jane Kennedy

    Jane Kennedy is architect to Newcastle and Christ Church (Oxford) cathedrals and former architect at Ely Cathedral. She has also worked with se…

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    Jane Kennedy
  • Michael Knowles

    Michael Knowles is a biblical theologian and writer. He studied philosophy, theology and sociology in Dublin, Poona, Cambridge and London and t…

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    Michael Knowles
  • Gaye Kynoch

    Gaye Kynoch is a freelance translator from Danish to English, with nearly 30 years’ experience translating books, essays and articles on topic…

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    Gaye Kynoch
  • Andrew Lightbown

    Andrew Lightbown was ordained deacon in 2013, and serves in the Schorne team of parishes in Buckinghamshire. Andrew has an MBA, and, before ord…

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    Andrew Lightbown
  • Martin Lind

    Martin Lind is the Bishop of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain. He is affiliated to the University of Lund, Sweden, as Assistant Professor i…

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    Martin Lind
  • Ann Loades

    Ann Loades CBE is Professor Emerita of Divinity University of Durham and Honorary Professor in the School of Divinity, University of St Andrews. She…

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    Ann Loades
  • David Lowther

    David Lowther was born in South West London and raised in South Wales. Having trained as a teacher, he worked in secondary schools and in tertiary e…

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    David Lowther
  • Lynn Machin

    Lynn Machin is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Staffordshire University. She has been involve in leadership, management, curriculum…

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    Lynn Machin
  • John Marsh

    ​John Marsh is a retired Church of England priest and has been involved in the life and ministry of the Church in a variety of different and contras…

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    John Marsh
  • Maylanne Maybee

    Maylanne Maybee has been a deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada since 1978. She is an educator, social justice activist, ecumenist, and writer on…

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    Maylanne Maybee
  • Lyn McCrave

    Lyn McCrave was born in Liverpool but has lived in Scotland for 46 years. She is married with two grown daughters and a granddaughter. She is now re…

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    Lyn McCrave
  • John McLuckie

    John McLuckie is Rector of Old St Paul’s Church in Edinburgh and an Associate Tutor of the Scottish Episcopal Institute where he teaches Spiri…

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    John McLuckie
  • Jane Merson

    Jane Merson is an author, church leader, and preacher. She has nearly a decade of experience working in full-time ministry, including operation…

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    Jane Merson
  • Sarah Meyrick

    Sarah Meyrick studied Classics at Cambridge and Social Anthropology at Oxford which gave her a fascination for the stories people tell and the world…

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    Sarah Meyrick
  • Luke Miller

    ​Luke Miller is Archdeacon of London. He read History at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge before training for the priesthood at St Stephen&rsqu…

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    Luke Miller
  • Alison Morgan

    Alison Morgan was ordained into the Church of England in 1996. Before her ordination, Alison was a university lecturer. Alison is an associate of Th…

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    Alison Morgan
  • Nadim Nassar

    ​Nadim Nassar is the director of the Awareness Foundation, an international educational foundation which seeks to empower young people living in war…

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    Nadim Nassar
  • Tony Neal

    Tony Neal is a retired priest and hospital chaplain living in Cornwall.

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    Tony Neal
  • Stephen W. Need

    Stephen W. Need was born in Nottingham and studied theology at King’s College, London. Whilst training to be a teacher, he visited the Holy La…

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    Stephen W. Need
  • James Newcome

    Although he was born and brought up in the South of England, James Newcome has now worked in the North West for more than twenty years. After someti…

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    James Newcome
  • David Newman

    David Newman studied English at Oxford and trained for ministry at St John’s College, Nottingham. After curacies in Orpington and Wolverhampto…

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    David Newman
  • George E. Newman

    George E. Newman, ordained to the Roman Catholic diaconate in 1987, served as Director of Diaconate Formation in Toronto from 1992 to 2002. He estab…

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    George E. Newman
  • Bridget Nichols

    ​Bridget Nichols lectures in Anglicanism and Liturgy at The Church of Ireland Theological Institute in Dublin. She began her doctoral research under…

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    Bridget Nichols
  • Richard Noble

    Richard Noble became Bursar of Ridley Hall theological college in Cambridge after a career in engineering and business management. Following retirem…

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    Richard Noble
  • Philip North

    The Rt Revd Philip North has been Bishop of Burnley since 2015. Read more on his Wikipedia page.

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    Philip North
  • Daniel O’Connor

    Daniel O'Connor was born in 1933 in Darlington. He was ordained as an Anglican priest after training in Oxford and in 1963 he and his wife Julie…

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    Daniel O’Connor
  • Simon Oliver

    Simon Oliver is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University and Residentiary Canon of Durham Cathedral, having been on the faculty at Lam…

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    Simon Oliver
  • Andrew Orton

    Andrew Orton is Associate Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University. Having a professional background in community and…

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    Andrew Orton
  • Jennie Page

    Jennie Page was for ten years (2006–2016) Vice Chair of the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England, having been Chief Executive of English H…

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    Jennie Page
  • Sarah Parkinson

    Sarah Parkinson is a writer and freelance editor who lives in the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband, who is a priest, and her three children…

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    Sarah Parkinson
  • John Parratt

    John Parratt was formerly Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of numerous publications on the interaction of the…

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    John Parratt
  • Marcus K. Paul

    Marcus Paul has two degrees in English and history and has enjoyed a life-long career working with students and sixth formers in universities a…

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    Marcus K. Paul
  • Sacha Pearce

    With a background in critical care nursing, Sacha Pearce is an Anglican priest with experience in rural parish ministry and healthcare chaplaincy. H…

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    Sacha Pearce
  • Alison Peden

    Alison Peden was a medievalist at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, before moving to Scotland in 1990, where she taught at the Universities of…

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    Alison Peden
  • Martyn Percy

     Martyn Percy was ordained as a deacon in 1990 and a priest in 1991. He was later appointed Chaplain and Director of Studies, Christ's Church,…

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    Martyn Percy
  • Daniel Ruy Pereira

    ​Daniel Ruy Pereira (B.Sc. Life Sciences) is a Christian science teacher in Oldham and the author of the poetry collection Sunset and Blizzard: Expe…

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    Daniel Ruy Pereira
  • Anthony Phillips

    Anthony Phillips is widely published. He was born in Cornwall in 1936. After leaving school he trained as a solicitor and, after practicing briefly…

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    Anthony Phillips
  • Mark Philps

    Mark Philps grew up with his mother and younger brother in Cornwall, where they had moved from London after his father died when he was four years o…

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    Mark Philps
  • Catherine Pickford

    Despite being born in Oxford, Catherine Pickford considers herself a committed Northerner. A vicar’s daughter, Catherine spent the first part…

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    Catherine Pickford
  • Stephen Platten

    ​Stephen Platten is an Assistant Bishop in the Dioceses of London, Southwark, and Newcastle. He has written extensively on theology, cathedrals and…

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    Stephen Platten
  • Matthew Porter

    Matthew Porter is Vicar of St Michael le Belfrey in York, a church with a vision to play their part in serving God's transformation of the North. Th…

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    Matthew Porter
  • Mark Powley

    Mark Powley is Principal of Yorkshire Ministry Course, which works with St Barnabas Theological Centre to train ordinands for the Church of England.…

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    Mark Powley
  • Alan Race

    Alan Race is a retired Anglican priest-theologian. He is a member and trustee of Modern Church, a leading voice in the movement for progressive and…

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    Alan Race
  • Anantanand Rambachan

    Anantanand Rambachan is Emeritus Professor of Religion at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, United States. Rambachan has been involved in interr…

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    Anantanand Rambachan
  • Delyth M. Reid

    Delyth M. Reid was Staff Scientist at the Institute of Medical Sciences in the University of Aberdeen. She has over forty publications in photorecep…

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    Delyth M. Reid
  • Su Reid

    Su Reid grew up in Nottingham, where her father was an Anglican Lay Reader, and then read English at St Anne’s College, Oxford University. She…

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    Su Reid
  • Neil Richardson

    ​Neil Richardson was Tutor In New Testament Studies and later Principal of Wesley College Bristol. As British Methodist President in 2003, he co-sig…

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    Neil Richardson
  • Adrian Roberts

    Adrian Roberts is a retired teacher of Religious Studies and former Lay Chaplain at the Grammar School at Leeds, UK. He was brought up as a Roman Ca…

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    Adrian Roberts
  • Nigel Rooms

    Nigel Rooms works part-time developing a process for deep cultural change in UK Christian congregations over the long term with the Church Mission S…

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    Nigel Rooms
  • Isabel Ryan

    Isabel Ryan is the younger daughter of the artist and cartoonist John Ryan. She left school at 16, lived briefly on her wits in Paris, ran the infor…

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    Isabel Ryan
  • John Ryan

    The son of a diplomat, John Ryan was born in Edinburgh but educated in the north of England. His lifelong fascination with pirates and the sea&mdash…

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    John Ryan
  • Michael Sadgrove

    Michael Sadgrove was Dean of Durham Cathedral between 2003 and 2015. More information about Michael can be found on his Wikipedia page.

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    Michael Sadgrove
  • John Saxbee

    John Saxbee was Bishop of Lincoln from 2002 to 2011.

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    John Saxbee
  • Mathias Schneider

    Mathias Schneider is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Religion and Modernity and interim chair at the Institute for Religious Stu…

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    Mathias Schneider
  • Paul Severn

    ​Born and bred in Oxford, Paul taught mathematics for many years in a variety of independent schools. Now living on the Isle of Wight, he has develo…

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    Paul Severn
  • Kevin Sheehan

    Kevin Sheehan is a cartographer, specialising in hand-drawn maps which he sells via manuscriptmaps.com.

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    Kevin Sheehan
  • Richard Shephard

    Richard Shephard was a member of Baroness Howe’s Cathedrals Commission, whose report formed the basis of the 1999 Cathedrals Measure. Most rec…

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    Richard Shephard
  • Robert Shepherd

    Robert Shepherd grew up in South London and read chemistry at Grey College, University of Durham. His interest in architecture started as a teenager…

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    Robert Shepherd
  • Peter Sills

    Peter Sills was born in north London, and after an initial career teaching law at Kingston University, during which he was called to the Bar, h…

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    Peter Sills
  • Mark Silversides

    Mark Silversides is not your average priest. After a decade serving parishes in the Diocese of Chelmsford, he began work for the Church Pastoral Aid…

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    Mark Silversides
  • Ray Simpson

    Ray Simpson is the Founding Guardian of the international Community of Aidan and Hilda, its principal liturgist and tutor of its Celtic Christian St…

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    Ray Simpson
  • J. Richard Smith

    ​J.  Richard Smith was born in Falkirk in Scotland. He was educated at Dollar Academy and thereafter at Glasgow University where he qualified w…

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    J. Richard Smith
  • Adrian Snell

    Adrian Snell is a composer, performer and music therapist He is known for albums such as The Passion, The Cry, Alpha + Omega, and Fierce Love, and h…

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    Adrian Snell
  • Stephen Spencer

    Stephen Spencer began researching William Temple’s life and thought for his doctoral studies at the University of Oxford. Since then he has co…

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    Stephen Spencer
  • Leon van Steensel

    Leon van Steensel is a Dutch music journalist and publicist. After studying journalism he has been editor of Dutch music magazine Bottomline, held a…

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    Leon van Steensel
  • Jock Stein

    Jock Stein attended Sedbergh School and Emmanuel College Cambridge. After working in the Sheffield steel industry for three years, he studied t…

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    Jock Stein
  • Todd Stockdale

    Todd Stockdale is a teaching fellow at Seton Hall University, New Jersey. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh and his research in…

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    Todd Stockdale
  • Eric Stoddart

    Eric Stoddart teaches practical theology in the School of Divinity of the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He is a co-founder of the internatio…

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    Eric Stoddart
  • Christopher Stoltz

    Christopher Stoltz is Precentor at Westminster Abbey. He was previously Chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge and served his curacy at St Mich…

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    Christopher Stoltz
  • Alan M. Suggate

    Alan M. Suggate is a classicist, theologian and Anglican. From long experience, he draws together his reflections on our culture and the Christian f…

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    Alan M. Suggate
  • Mark Tanner

    Mark Tanner is based in Durham where he serves as Warden of Cranmer Hall, training people for mission and ministry. Previously he has lead parishes…

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    Mark Tanner
  • Nicholas Taylor

    Nicholas Taylor is Rector of St Aidan’s, Clarkston, in the Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway, and Convenor of the Liturgy Committee of…

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    Nicholas Taylor
  • Andrew Teal

    The Revd Dr Andrew Teal has been a full member of Oxford’s Faculty of Theology and Religion since 2008. He has been an admissions coordinator,…

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    Andrew Teal
  • Andy Thomas

    Andy Thomas is an organist, pianist and choir director with over 25 years’ experience of reinvigorating music in churches from different Chris…

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    Andy Thomas
  • John Thomson

    John Thomson is the Bishop of Selby. Before this he was Director of Ministry in Sheffield Diocese, a vicar in Doncaster, a theological educator in S…

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    John Thomson
  • Katharine Tiernan

    Katharine Tiernan is a Northumbrian by birth and spent many childhood afternoons on the shores of Lindisfarne. She studied English Literature at Yor…

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    Katharine Tiernan
  • David R. Tomlinson

    David R. Tomlinson is Vicar of St Paul’s in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, and Chair of Thrive Together Birmingham. Previously he was Area…

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    David R. Tomlinson
  • Andrew Tremlett

    Andrew Tremlett is the Dean of Durham. Previously he has served as a Canon Residentiary at Bristol Cathedral, Sub-Dean of Westminster Abbey, Archdea…

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    Andrew Tremlett
  • Pádraig Ó Tuama

    Pádraig Ó Tuama is an Irish poet, theologian and conflict mediator. Photo: U.S. Institute of Peace (CC BY 2.0)

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    Pádraig Ó Tuama
  • Graham Turner

    For over thirty years, Graham Turner has served in a variety of parishes, mostly in urban neighbourhoods. Through community enterprises an…

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    Graham Turner
  • Vibeke Vasbo

    Danish author Vibeke Vasbo lived in Hull for four years while married to the Danish seamen’s chaplain. She is the author of highly acclaimed,…

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    Vibeke Vasbo
  • Tony Vernon-Harcourt

    Tony Vernon-Harcourt is the great-great-great grandson of Archbishop Vernon-Harcourt and 11th Lord Vernon. Educated at Eton and Magdalene College…

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    Tony Vernon-Harcourt
  • Nicola Vidamour

    Nicola Vidamour is a Methodist Minister, currently serving in the Woughton Ecumenical Partnership in Milton Keynes. Nicola read Russian at Bristol U…

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    Nicola Vidamour
  • Gavin Wakefield

    Gavin Wakefield is Director of Training for Missional Ministry in the Diocese of York, overseeing a team responsible for lay and clergy development.…

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    Gavin Wakefield
  • John Wallace

    John Wallace has been involved in churches since childhood. He was lay chair of his deanery synod for over 30 years and of his diocesan synod f…

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    John Wallace
  • Frances Ward

    Frances Ward is a freelance theologian, researcher and writer, preacher, speaker and teacher. She is half-time Priest in Charge of St Mich…

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    Frances Ward
  • Gillian R. Warson

    ​Gillian Warson trained as a professional viola player and then worked as a church musician and teacher in Germany. Since completing her Ph.D. on th…

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    Gillian R. Warson
  • Helen Warwick

    ​Helen Warwick is a Chaplain, Spiritual Director, Creative Therapist and writer in the Community of Holy Rood House (since 2015), with a background…

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    Helen Warwick
  • Natalie Watson

    Natalie Watson is a theologian, writer and editor based in Peterborough, and has a PhD in Theology from Durham University. She is the author of seve…

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    Natalie Watson
  • Justin Welby

    Justin Welby was born in London and educated at Eton College and then Trinity College, Cambridge. Following a career in the oil industry, Justin cho…

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    Justin Welby
  • Patrick Whitworth

    Patrick Whitworth read Modern History at Christ Church Oxford, and a Theology MA in Reformation Studies under T. H. L. Parker at Durham. He has spen…

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    Patrick Whitworth
  • John Wigfield

    John Wigfield was born and educated in West Yorkshire, and has taught Modern Foreign Languages mainly in northern towns, and English in Zimbabwe. Ha…

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    John Wigfield
  • David Willem

    David Willem is the author of Kicking: Following the Fans to the Orient and a former correspondent for The Guardian and&nbs…

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    David Willem
  • Rowan Williams

    Rowan, Lord Williams is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian, and poet. He was also the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitan and Primate…

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    Rowan Williams
  • E. Louise Williams

    E. Louise Williams is a deacon in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and was consecrated a deaconess in 1967. After serving in parish m…

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    E. Louise Williams
  • Jenny Wilson

    Jenny Wilson was born in England in 1959 and emigrated to Australia as a child with her parents. Jenny studied Mathematics and Music at The Universi…

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    Jenny Wilson
  • Alan Wilson

    Alan Wilson was born in Edinburgh and grew up in London and Kent. After studies at St John’s College Cambridge and doctoral res…

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    Alan Wilson
  • Michael Woolcock

    Michael Woodcock is Lead Social Development Specialist with the World Bank's Development Research Group, and a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard…

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    Michael Woolcock
  • Janet Wootton

    Janet Wootton served as a Congregational Minister in rural and city churches, before becoming Director of Studies for the Congregational Federation,…

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    Janet Wootton
  • Elli Wort

    Elli Wort is a Tutor with Church Army, equipping their Commissioned Evangelists to share God’s love and transform their communities through fa…

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    Elli Wort
  • Michael Yelton

    ​Michael Yelton was a barrister for 25 years and then a Circuit Judge for 21. He has written extensively on Anglo-Catholic history and on ecclesiast…

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    Michael Yelton
  • Frances Young

    The Revd Prof. Frances Young taught theology at the University of Birmingham from 1971 to 2002. While there, she was an Edward Cadbury Professor, he…

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    Frances Young

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