I heard today that David Goodbourn has died. I did not really know David Goodbourn. I remember spending a few evenings with others at Baptist Union Council where he was present. He made lots of contributions to Baptist life and to ecumenism, as well as theological education amongst adults. He will be missed. In October 2013 with knowledge that he was dying he wrote a moving article which was published in the URC Reform magazine.
There is a obituary here written by Simon Oxley.
PhD (Manchester, 1989)
Tutor in Lay-Training, Northern Baptist College - 1973-1985
Dean of the Scottish Churches' Open College, and Assistant Director (College Education) for the Church of Scotland Board of Parish Education
Tutor, Scottish Baptist College
General Secretary of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland - 1999-2006
Member of the WCC Commission on Education and Ecumenical Formation
President, Partnership for Theological Education, Luther King House - 2005-2011
Associate Lecturer, International Baptist Theological Seminary
Editorial Board, Journal of Adult Theological Education
Trustee, Baptist Union - 2011-2013
Publications
'The Learning Needs of Christian Adults', British Journal of Adult Theological Education (1988)
'Father, it is right and fitting', Baptist Praise and Worship (Oxford, 1991)
'A Churches Open College for Scotland', British Journal Theological Education 4.2 (Spring 1991)
'Overcoming Barriers to Adult Christian Education', Ministry Today 7 (July 1996)
'Mapping Church-Related Adult Education', British Journal of Theological Education 11.2 (2001)
'Richfulness and Ruefulness: Looking Back over a Life in Theological Adult Education', Journal of Adult Theological Education 9.1 (2012)
'Adult Christian Education', Baptistic Theologies 5.1 (Spring 2013)
'Parting Thoughts', Reform Magazine (2013)
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