Guidelines contributors

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Andrew Angel lectures at St John's College, Nottingham and is an Anglican priest. In addition to parish ministry, he has taught in secondary schools and higher education. He has published articles in theological journals and written Chaos and the Son of Man (LSTS 60; T&T Clark, 2006). Andrew is married to Carol Fabiola and they have two sons.

Jo Bailey Wells currently teaches at Duke Divinity School in North Carolina, USA, where she also serves as Director of the Anglican Episcopal House of Studies, preparing able young leaders for ministry. She also teaches regularly at Renk Theological College in Southern Sudan.

Tim Blewett has been the Warden of Launde Abbey since 2004 and Spirituality Adviser to the Bishop of Leicester since 2010. Previously he was Canon Residentiary of St Asaph Cathedral. He was mobilised by the Army to serve as a military chaplain in Iraq from December 2003 to June 2004, having previously served as a military chaplain in Bosnia in 1997 to 1998.

Mike Butterworth has served with CMS in India as a college teacher, pastor and course writer to The Association for Theological Education by Extension. He had been involved in ministry training, back in Britain, since 1980. He is priest-in-charge of Broughton Community Church, Aylesbury.

Joanna Collicutt, an Anglican priest, is Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Religion at Heythrop College. Previously she worked as a consultant clinical psychologist, specialising in the needs of people with complex disabilities. She has a particular interest in psychological approaches to Bible reading.

Trevor Dennis was Vice Dean of Chester Cathedral until his retirement in 2010. He has published a number of books, including a children's Bible, The Book of Books, The Christmas Stories and The Easter Stories. His first two books on Old Testament narratives, Lo and Behold! and Sarah Laughed, were both reissued by SPCK in 2010.

Jeremy Duff is a vicar in Widnes with a teaching and writing ministry, which has included posts at Liverpool Cathedral and within Oxford University. His writings include Meeting Jesus: Human Responses to a Yearning God (SPCK, 2006) and The Elements of New Testament Greek (CUP, 2005).

Jill Duff is currently working on a research project for the Diocese of Liverpool on what encourages young people to consider ordination in the Church of England. Previously she has been a pioneer minister in Liverpool City Centre and in parish ministry in a deprived part of Liverpool.

Rosie Dymond is Rector of the Parishes of Bedwellty and New Tredegar and is excited about the many signs of God’s kingdom in the beautiful post-industrial Valleys of South Wales. She is especially inter-ested in community ministry and the arts. She has an aca-demic background in neuroscience research and previously served as Assistant Chaplain at the Church of St John and St Philip in The Hague.

Grace Emmerson has had varied pastoral experience in situations ranging from the Canadian Arctic to urban and rural parish life in England. Her university teaching and writing have been chiefly on Old Testament studies and the Hebrew language. She is the author of Nahum to Malachi in BRF's People's Bible Commentary series.

Matthew Firth read Natural Sciences at Cambridge and Theology at Oxford. He is chaplain to the Carlisle campuses of the University of Cumbria and is also a pioneer minister for the planting of a new church aimed at people in the 18-30 age-group. He has a particular interest in bringing the Hebrew scriptures to life in today’s context.

Janet Fletcher is a priest at Prescot in Liverpool Diocese, and coordinator of the Diocesan Spiritual Director Training Course. She offers spiritual direction and quiet days, and leads courses on prayer and spirituality. She has written Pathway to God: Following the Way in Prayer (SPCK, 2006).

Dick France is a retired Anglican minister who taught New Testament for 26 years. After serving as principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, he spent several years as Rector of seven small parishes on the Welsh border. He has written substantial commentaries on Matthew and Mark, and has written The People's Bible Commentary: Mark for BRF.

Alec Gilmore is a Baptist minister, author, lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague. His most recent book is A Concise Dictionary of Bible Origins and Interpretation (T&T Clark/Continuum, 2007).

Andrew Goddard is Tutor in Christian Ethics at Trinity College, Bristol, where he is helping develop a Centre for Bible and Society. He also edits Anvil, the Anglican evangelical journal for theology and mission, and serves on the leadership team of Fulcrum.

Abby Guinness is an actor and writer who specialises in biblical material. Her first book, The Word of the Wives: monologues from the unheard women of the Bible, explores Bible stories from the point of view of the main characters' WAGs. She is closely involved with Lacey Theatre Company and currently heads up the arts for Spring Harvest.

Margaret Guite is an Anglican priest. During the 1980s she taught doctrine in two colleges of the Cambridge Theological Federation. Since then she has been serving in various parishes in the Diocese of Ely and is currently parish priest of St Mark's, Cambridge, and an honorary canon of Ely.

James Harding is married to Katie and has two young children. He is the Anglican Chaplain to the students of the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University, and a licensed lay minister. He completed a PhD in 2006 on the use and influence of the book of Revelation, and, as part of his Anglican ordination training, is working towards a second doctorate in practical Christian Ministry at the University of Chester.

Ruth Hassall works for CPAS as a Leadership Development Adviser, heading up the Growing Leaders programme. She has written two books for BRF: Ready to Lead, a pratical guide to leadership for 14-18s, and Growing Young Leaders, a practical guide to mentoring teens.

Jenny Hellyer is a spiritual director, musician, clergy wife and mother based in Oxford. After teaching and theological study, she was part of the Lee Abbey Community in Devon for seven years.

Barry Hill was ordained in 2005. He has worked for the past three years as Diocesan Mission Enabler for the Diocese of Leicester, supporting and resourcing parishes and Fresh Expressions in mission. He is married to Peppie, who is also ordained, and they have two young children.

Steve Hollinghurst works for Church Army as Researcher in Evangelism to Post-Christian Culture, based at the Sheffield Centre. He has an academic background in social science and theology, with postgraduate research into contemporary spirituality. He is part of the team that runs the Elemental venue at the Glastonbury festival.

Melissa Jackson recently completed her doctoral work at the University of Oxford. Her thesis was an examination of the intersection of comedy and feminist interpretation in several Old Testament stories. She is a lecturer in Old Testament and Hebrew at Baptist Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, USA.

Robert Mackley read history and theology at Cambridge University before ordination. Fr Robert is currently Assistant Chaplain and Research Student at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is a published church historian and a regular columnist and reviewer for the Church Times.

Walter Moberly is an Anglican priest and professor of theology and biblical interpretation at Durham University. Married to Jenny, he is the ever-chauffeuring father of Jon-Paul (15) and Rachel (9). He cherishes the countryside, patronises the pubs and follows the football in north-east England.

Sharon Moughtin-Mumby is Mission Theologian for Parishes in the Diocese of Southwark, responsible for the 'Bible in Mission' project which aims to energise and resource Bible reading and engagement across the Diocese. Her latest book is Sexual and Marital Metaphors in Hosea, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel (Oxford Theological Monographs, OUP, 2008).

Amy Orr-Ewing is Training Director for the Zacharias Trust and is involved in evangelism, apologetics and teaching both in the UK and abroad. She is a lecturer at the Oxford Centre for Apologetics, Wycliffe Hall, and lives in London with her husband and three boys.

John Proctor works for the United Reformed Church, teaching the New Testament to students in Cambridge and beyond. Before that he was a parish minister in Glasgow. John has written The Peopl's Bible Commentary: Matthew (BRF, 2001), and Grove booklets on the Gospels and Acts.

Volker Rabens teaches New Testament at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He is the author of The Holy Spirit and Ethics in Paul: Transformation and Empowering for Religious-Ethical Life.

Chris Tilling is the New Testament Tutor at St Mellitus College and St Paul's Theological Centre, London. His present area of research concerns the apostle Paul's understanding of the identity of Christ.

Graham Tomlin is Dean of St Mellitus College, based in London and Chelmsford. He taught theology in Oxford University for many years and is the author of several books, including The Provocative Church (SPCK, 2002) and, most recently, The Prodigal Spirit (Alpha International, 2011).

Michael Tunnicliffe is a freelance tutor in adult education in the north-west of England.

Peter Walker is Associate Vice-Principal and Director of Development at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, where he lectures in New Testament Studies and Biblical Theology. He has a special interest in the historical Jesus. As a qualified tour guide around Israel, he leads student groups on tours every other year.

Henry Wansbrough OSB is a monk at Ampleforth Abbey in Yorkshire. He is Executive Secretary of the International Commission for Producing an English-Language Lectionary (ICPEL) for the Roman Catholic Church, and lectures frequently across the globe.

Justin Welby is Dean of Liverpool. Previously, as Canon of Coventry Cathedral, he was responsible for Coventry's international ministry of reconciliation. Justin is also the Personal and Ethical Adviser to the UK Association of Corporate Treasurers, and lectures extensively on ethics and finance.

Kate Wharton is priest-in-charge of a church in Everton, north Liverpool, and is also involved with ministry among deaf people in the Liverpool area. Before ordination she was a speech and language therapist, working with children with a variety of communication difficulties. She is and always has been single and counts it a privilege to speak and teach on this important but often neglected topic.

Jane Williams read Theology at Cambridge University before going on to work in theological publishing and education. She now works as a Visiting Lecturer at King's College London, as a Lecturer at the St Paul's Theological Centre, and for Redemptorist Publications.

Tom Wilson is currently Curate to the Toxteth Team, a group of three churches in inner-city Liverpool. He also teaches Biblical Studies for the Regional Training Partnership and coordinates the Liverpool Cathedral School of Theology. He enjoys teaching, training and helping people to develop their gifts and deepen their relationship with Jesus.

Andrew Wingate was involved in theological education for 25 years in India and the UK. He moved to Leicester in 2000, and developed the St Philip's Centre for Study and Engagement in a Multi Faith Society. He is also Bishop's Inter Faith Adviser, and a Chaplain to The Queen.

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