Susan Lucas

Susan Lucas has served in urban parishes in the dioceses of Chelmsford and Liverpool and became the Archdeacon of Southend in February 2025. She was ordained in 2008. Prior to ordination she worked in education and examining, and came to theology from graduate work in philosophy, with her PhD studies focused on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. More recently, she has edited a book on mission in the Catholic tradition of the Church of England, God’s Church in the World: The Gift of Catholic Mission (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2020), and contributed a chapter to Theology Transforming Society: Revisiting Anglican Social Theology, edited by Stephen Spencer (London: SCM Press, 2017). She has also contributed papers to the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Brighton and the Centre for Newman Studies at University College, Dublin, and a “Temple Tract” on William Temple and Hannah Arendt, published online by the William Temple Foundation. She is committed both to supporting those in active ministry at the grassroots, and to reflecting and writing on some of the theoretical and theological issues this raises.