As College Chaplain I have responsibility for the running of College services and a broad programme of chaplaincy events. I work to promote the use of the Cathedral and discussion of matters of faith amongst the wider College community. I also provide pastoral care to all members of the House who seek it, and work as part of the College welfare team in supporting our students.
I began my theological studies as an undergraduate here at Oxford (at Regent’s Park), before a Masters degree at St Andrews, a graduate certificate in ecumenism from the University of Geneva, and a PhD at Cambridge, during which I also trained for ordained ministry. In between these periods of study, I worked as a lay chaplain at Christ’s Hospital boarding school in West Sussex and a pastoral assistant at St Albans Cathedral, and taught theology and church history for the Eastern Region Ministry Course. Most recently I served my curacy in the market town of Leighton Buzzard, in the Diocese of St Albans.
My doctoral work explored doctrines of prayer through the work of Augustine of Hippo and I continue to pursue academic research as I can around the busy patterns of the Oxford term. I am also involved in national and international ecumenism; as a recent participant at a gathering of the Global Christian Forum in Ghana, as a member of the Malines Conversations Group (an international group of Roman Catholic, Old Catholic and Anglican theologians) and in exploring new dialogues between the Anglican Communion and the Assyrian Church of the East.