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Contributors

Ruthlyn Bradshaw has been in ministry for 37 years. A native of Montserrat, she migrated at an early age to Boston, USA, where she received most of her formal education and early theological training. After some years she returned to her homeland, Montserrat, and for several years served as pastor, until the volcanic eruption caused her to migrate in 1997 to England, where she currently serves as senior pastor for two branches of the New Life Assembly Fellowship of Churches. Her penchant for learning, culminating in a Master’s degree in Applied Theology from Spurgeon’s College in the UK, has added to her capacity to preach and counsel with uncommon insight. She is currently a doctoral student and faculty member in two theological institutions.

Susan Durber is a minister of the United Reformed Church, presently serving as Principal of Westminster College, Cambridge, where she is leading the college in its development from a traditional theological college to a resource centre for the whole of the URC. She has served churches in rural, inner city, suburban and city centre settings. She publishes prayers, books and articles on preaching, and contributes regularly to the URC’s Reform magazine. She is also on the Standing Commission of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches.

Leslie J. Francis is Professor of Religions and Education within the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, University of Warwick, England, and Canon Theologian at Bangor Cathedral, Wales. His research interests are in practical theology, empirical theology and the psychology of religion. In particular, he is interested in the ways in which research traditions within the field of ‘personality and individual differences’ may help to inform a ‘theology of individual differences’. It is this theological approach that has given rise to the SIFT method of biblical hermeneutics and liturgical preaching.

Paul Johns is a Methodist Local Preacher and Director of the College of Preachers. He has spent most of his working life as a management consultant working in industries as diverse as food production, finance and football. As well as tutoring in preaching, he writes plays and stories and is a former contributor to BBC’s Thought for the Day. He also works voluntarily for a small Christian–Muslim development agency promoting interfaith co-operation in Bosnia and visits that country frequently. He has Masters degrees in History from Oxford and in Theology (preaching) from the University of Wales.

Richard Littledale is the Minister of Teddington Baptist Church, in West London, and has always had an interest in innovative and creative communication. He has written books for the Baptist Union of Great Britain and the Saint Andrew Press on the subject. His first book with Saint Andrew Press, Stale Bread, is a guide to narrative preaching, and his second, the Preacher’s A to Z, is a preacher’s companion on the craft and practice of preaching. Richard is a regular contributor to Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2 and a tutor with the College of Preachers.

Duncan Macpherson is a Roman Catholic Permanent Deacon in the Diocese of Westminster. He preaches regularly in several Catholic churches as well as in those of other Christian traditions. Retiring from lecturing in Theology and Religious Studies at Saint Mary’s University College, Twickenham, in 2000, he obtained his D.Min. in Preaching from the Aquinas Institute in St Louis Missouri in 2003. He is a tutor and executive member of the College of Preachers and is the features editor of The Preacher. His publications include Pilgrim Preacher: Palestine, Pilgrimage and Preaching (foreword by Naim Ateek; 2004 and 2008). He belongs to the US-based Academy of Homiletics and the Catholic Association of Teachers of Homiletics. He is a research fellow at the University of Wales, Lampeter, and teaches the MA module on ‘Proclamation and Preaching’ at Saint Mary’s University College.

Ian Paul is Dean of Studies at St John’s, Nottingham, where he teaches New Testament, philosophy of language and homiletics. From a Roman Catholic background, he came to personal faith as a teenager and studied Pure Maths and Operational Research (logistics) and made chocolate before training for ordination in the Church of England at St John’s. After completing a Ph.D. on metaphor and the book of Revelation, he was involved in church leadership in Poole, Dorset, for ten years before returning to join the staff in Nottingham. He is married to Maggie and they have three children.

Trevor Pitt was ordained in 1970 to parish ministry in Sheffield, and worked in local radio. He moved to Kent in 1979, combining parish ministry with teaching in theological education, and served as a Six Preacher at Canterbury Cathedral. In 1991 he became Principal of the North East Oecumenical Course (NEOC) and Hon. Canon of Newcastle Cathedral. His primary academic interests, since postgraduate work in liturgy and philosophical theology, have been in liturgical theology, performance and practice, and in preaching, communication and understanding of the faith, and practical ecumenism.

David J. Schlafer is an Episcopal priest who has taught philosophy, theology and homiletics at a number of seminaries in different denominational traditions, and has served on the staff of the College of Preachers (USA). He currently focuses professional energy as a conference leader and preaching consultant. Author and editor of 18 books, he contributes regularly to professional journals in homiletics.

Roger Spiller was born in Birmingham where he was influenced by the preaching of Canon Bryan Green, a founder of the College of Preachers. After a brief period in industry Roger read theology at Durham and Cambridge and trained for ministry at Ridley Hall. He later qualified in adult education at Nottingham University. He ministered at Bradford Cathedral, Stratford-upon-Avon and Nuneaton, before becoming Principal of a national ministerial training scheme (Aston). He has been involved nationally in developing new patterns of ministerial education as well as in training and teaching. He is currently Director of Ministry and Ordinands in Coventry diocese and a Canon of Coventry Cathedral. He is secretary of the UK network of the Ecumenical Institute, Geneva, where he spent a semester, and is tutor and council member of the College of Preachers.

Ian Stackhouse is pastoral leader of Guildford Baptist Church. He has been preaching for over 20 years in a local church context but he has also preached quite extensively overseas. Ian has hosted Preachers’ Breakfasts and Conferences over the years to encourage pastors and also those starting out in preaching for the first time. He has authored two books, of which the first, The Gospel-Driven Church, seeks to underline the importance of expository preaching.

Roger Standing is a Baptist minister and is presently the Director of Training at Spurgeon’s College in London, where he teaches mission, evangelism and pioneer ministry. With over 30 years of experience in ministry he worked as an evangelist in Liverpool before pastoring churches in Leeds and South London. Prior to taking up his present position, he was the Regional Minister/Team Leader for the Southern Counties Baptist Association. His previous publications include Preaching for the Unchurched in an Age of Entertainment (2002) and Finding the Plot: Preaching in a Narrative Style (2004).

Geoffrey Stevenson is an adjunct lecturer in preaching, communication and media studies at New College, University of Edinburgh. He recently completed a Ph.D. in homiletics at Edinburgh, and before that he was Director of the Centre for Christian Communication at St John’s College, Durham. Prior to that he worked for 20 years as an actor. A deviser and performer of his own mime theatre shows, he toured extensively throughout the UK and Europe both to churches and to small-scale theatres. He has published two books on mime theatre in the Church and two on preaching: Pulpit Journeys (2006) and Preaching with Humanity (2008), co-authored with Stephen Wright.

Margaret Withers taught music for the Open University and in several Inner London schools, before becoming Diocesan Children’s Adviser for Rochester in 1989. Her interest in liturgy led her to provide training for clergy, Readers and ordinands on involving children in services, especially all-age worship. This led to the publication by BRF of the teaching programme Welcome to the Lord’s Table in 1999, which was followed by The Gifts of Baptism in 2003. Margaret was the Archbishop’s Officer for Evangelism among Children from 2001 to 2006. Her role included providing advice and establishing training for churches wishing to develop their outreach among children. In ‘retirement’ she maintains her interest in inclusive worship as a tutor for the College of Preachers, and through church music, and writing. Recent publications include Creative Communion (2008) and Local Church, Local School (2010).

Stephen Wright has been in the Anglican ministry since 1986. He served in parishes in the north of England before taking his Ph.D. in New Testament studies from the University of Durham in 1997. From 1998 to 2006 he was Director of the College of Preachers. He is now Tutor in Biblical Studies and Practical Theology at Spurgeon’s College, London, where he continues to direct the Masters in Theology (Preaching) course. Among his publications are (with Geoffrey Stevenson) Preaching with Humanity (2008) and (with Peter Stevenson) Preaching the Atonement (2005) and Preaching the Incarnation (2010).