BA (Manchester) - Northern Baptist College
MA in Peace Studies - Bradford (1980)
PhD - (University of Wales) - IBTS (2007)
1980-1990 General Secretary, Yorkshire Baptist Association
1990-1998 Deputy General Secretary, Baptist Union
1998-2013 Rector, International Baptist Theological Seminary
President, Baptist Historical Society
Publications
‘Have Baptists got Faith in the City?’, Baptist Quarterly 33.1 (January 1989)
‘The Authority of a Trust Deed: A Yorkshire Perspective’, Baptist Quarterly 33.3 (July 1989), 103-18
From Conflict to Communion (Baptist Union, 1997)
A Believing Church: Learning from some Contemporary Anabaptist and Baptist Perspectives (Baptist Union, 1998)
A Shared Meal and a Common Table: Some reflections on the Lord’s Supper and Baptists (Whitley, 1999)
'The International Baptist Theology Seminary of the European Baptist Federation', American Baptist Quarterly 38.2 (1999)
‘Rethinking Baptist Ecclesiology’, Journal of European Baptist Studies 1.1 (September 2000)
‘Developing the concept of an eco-seminary’, Journal of European Baptist Studies 2.2 (January 2002)
‘The Labyrinth of the World and and the Paradise of the Heart: insights on European Baptist spirituality’ Baptist Quarterly 40.4 (October 2003)
‘Towards a Model of Mission for Gathering, Intentional, Convictional Koinoina’, Journal of European Baptist Studies 4.2 (2004)
’Leading a theological institution in (Central) Europe today’ in Theological Education as Mission edited by Peter Penner (Neufeld Verla, 2005)
'Abandoning Public Worship' in Keith Jones and Parush Parushev (eds.), Currents in Baptistic Theology of Worship Today (IBTS, 2007)
'Anabaptist Mission Gathering Round the Table' in Wilbert R. Shenk and Peter F. Penner (eds.), Anabaptism and Mission (Neufeld Verlag, 2007)
‘The Baptist World Alliance and Baptist Identity: a reflection on the Journey to the Centenary Congress Message, 2005’, Journal of European Baptist Studies 8.2 (January 2008)
‘Baptists and Creation Care’, Baptist Quarterly 42.7 (July 2008), pp.452-476
(ed.) with Ian Randall, Counter-Cultural Communities: Baptistic Life in Twentieth-Century Europe (Studies in Baptist History and Thought Vol. 32; Paternoster, 2008)
The European Baptist Federation: A Case Study in European Baptist Interdependency 1950-2006 (Studies in Baptist History and Thought Vol. 43; Paternoster, 2009)
'Baptists and Anabaptists Revisited' in Anthony R. Cross and Nicholas Wood (eds.), Exploring Baptist Origins (Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Studies Vol.1; Regent's Park College, 2010)
'Gathering Worship: Some Tentative Proposals for Reshaping Worship in our European Baptistic Churches Today', Journal of European Baptist Studies 13.1 (September 2012)
'Spirituality and Structures', Journal of European Baptist Studies 13.2 (January 2013)
‘A Moment of Transformation: The European Baptist Federation and the Collapse of the Soviety Union’ in Pieter Lalleman et al (eds.), Grounded in Grace (Spurgeon’s College, 2013)
'Re-visiting the Web: Baptistic Ecclesia and Interdependency' Baptistic Theologies 7.2 (2015)
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