MA (St Andrews), BD (London), PhD (London)
I am a Baptist minister and have also worked as a theological educator, teaching in the areas of history (specialising in radical reformation, Baptist history and Baptist ecclesiology.) I have written, often collaboratively, in all these areas.
I am an experienced supervisor in various institutions.
Baptist history
Radical Reformation
Women in ministry
Baptist Ecclesiology
Books
The Flesh and the Feminine: Gender and Theology in the Writings of Caspar Schwenckfield (Paternoster, 2007)
with Brian Haymes and Anthony R. Cross, On Being the Church: Revisioning Baptist Identity (Paternoster, 2008)
(ed.) with Anthony R. Cross, Questions of Identity: Essays in honour of Brian Haymes (Regent's Park College, 2011)
(and Anthony R. Cross), The Story of Bristol Baptist College: Three Hundred Years of Ministerial Formation (Pickwick, 2022)
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
'This Sad Work: Scandal in Broadmead', Baptist Quarterly 39.3 (July 2001), 146-52.
'Being Human: Review of the Whitley Lecture 2006', Baptist Quarterly 42 (April 2007)
'Liturgical ID-phers for Ecclesial Transformation', American Baptist Quarterly 31.4 (Winter 2012), 379-391
'Not Just A Disembodied Voice: Towards an Understanding of Preaching as an Embodied Practice', Baptistic Theologies 5.1 (Spring 2013)
'Baptists, Women and Ministry', Feminist Theology 26.1 (2017), 59-68.
(with Steve Holmes), 'From one degree of imperfection to another: A consideration of gathering in different ways', Theology in Scotland 29.2 (2022)
'Reinventing the Wheel, twenty five years on', Journal of Baptist Theology in Context6 (December 2022)
'Messengers: Do they have a message for us?' in Stuart Murray (ed.), Translocal Ministry (Baptist Union, 2004)
'Ecclesiology, gender and persecution: or, why were the Anabaptists so scary?' in Tradition and Formation: Claiming An Inheritance. Essays in Honour of Peter C. Erb edited by Michel Desjardins and Harold Remus (Pandora, 2008)
'Story-telling, Sacraments, and Sexuality' in Questions of Identity: Essays in honour of Brian Haymes edited by Anthony R. Cross and Ruth Gouldbourne (Regent's Park College, 2011)
'Episcope without Episcopacy: Baptist Attitudes to the Bishops in Seventeenth-Century England' in Interfaces, Baptist and Others edited by David Bebbington (Paternoster, 2013)
'In Praise of Incompetence: The 2011 George Beasley-Murray Memorial Lecture', Baptist Quarterly 44.2 (April 2011). Reprinted in Truth That Never Dies edited by Nigel Wright (Pickwick, 2014).
'Encountering Christ: Zwingli, Signs and Baptists around the Table' in For the Sake of the Church: Essays in Honour of Paul S. Fiddes edited by Anthony Clarke (Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Studies 3; Regent's Park College, 2014), 78-90.
'We are Gathered with the Millions: Celebrating the Communion of Saints' in Gathering Disciples: Essays in Honor of Christopher J. Ellis edited by Myra Blyth and Andy Goodliff (Pickwick, 2017)
'Trinity: The Blessing of Almighty God' in Rhythms of Faithfulness: Essays in Honor of John E. Colwell edited by Andy Goodliff and Paul Goodliff (Pickwick, 2018)
'Ministry as Improvisation' in Ministry in Conversation: Essays in Honour of Paul Goodliff edited by Andy Goodliff and John Colwell (Wipf & Stock, 2022)
(with Faith Bowers), 'British Baptist Women in Ministry' in Baptists Worldwide edited by Erich Geldbach (Cascade, 2022)
'Proclaiming Churches' in Seeds of the Church: Towards an Ecumenical Baptist Ecclesiology (Cascade, 2022)
Other essays
'Identity and Pain: Women's Consultations, 1987-92', Baptist Ministers' Journal 243 (July 1993), 8-10.
Reinventing the Wheel: Women and Ministry in English Baptist Life. The 1997 Whitley Lecture (Whitley, 1997)
'Do women complement men in ministry?', Ministry Today 17 (October 1999)
'Voices', Baptist Ministers' Journal 268 (October 1999)
'Martha's Story — Our Story', Baptist Ministers' Journal 295 (July 2006)
'Response to a Festschrift', Baptist Ministers' Journal 354 (April 2022), 29-32
Tutor in Church History and Doctrine, Bristol Baptist College (1995-2005)
Senior Research Fellow, IBTS Centre, Amsterdam
1995 Whitley Lecture Reinventing the Wheel; the history of women and ministry among English Baptists.
1998 Hughey Lectures, IBTS on 'Ecclesiology and Gender: Radical Reformation, Baptist Beginnings and Baptists Today'