I used to think that theology was for particular people, until I realised how significantly our lives are affected by what we believe, think, feel and do. I am interested in theology in both systematics and the arts, because they both frame conversations for examining how the church has served and/or hindered humanity’s vocation in the world. As such, I engage interdependently with doctrine, ethics, and liturgy using different sources, whilst in dialogue with theologies of liberation.

I am one of the few White members of the national racial justice hub for Baptists Together, and have contributed to research and resources (both academic and creative) pertaining to issues of equality and diversity, particularly in terms of envisioning the theological and socio-political development of Whiteness.

I have wider interests in Black theology, music, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Thomas Aquinas, environmental ethics, and the integration of visceral and cerebral modes of learning for Christian formation.

I am a Baptist Minister, who underwent ministerial formation at Bristol Baptist College. I have had experience of ministering in Wolverhampton, Bristol, Guildford and Honiton (Devon). I have also had opportunities to serve and observe ministry and mission overseas, in Uganda, Rwanda, Israel/Palestine, Thailand and Peru. These experiences were extremely fruitful in providing reflections for my own songwriting.

I have degrees in Theology from the Universities of Bristol (2014) and Durham (2015). I also have a PhD from the University of Aberdeen (2021), which explores the place of lament in the life and thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

My role in college

I am a Lecturer in Ministerial Formation, which means I teach and assess various modules on the BTh course. I also act as a personal tutor for some of our students and support the senior tutor of pastoral studies. 

Books

• The White Bonhoeffer: His Life, Thought and Work (London: SCM, 2025, forthcoming).
• Bonhoeffer and the Voice of the Other: Critical Essays on Bonhoeffer’s Theology in a World of Struggle, ed. Alison Walker, Anthony G. Reddie and Tim Judson (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2025, forthcoming).
• Dark Weeping and Light Sleeping: Whiteness as a Doctrine of De-Formation (Oxford: Whitley, 2024).
• Awake in Gethsemane: Bonhoeffer and the Witness of Christian Lament (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2023).

Book chapters

• ‘The creative cruciformity of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Adolf Schlatter,’ in Engaging with Schlatter: Global Conversations on Faith, Jesus Christ, and the Cross, ed. Michael Bräutigam and Jason Lam (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025, forthcoming).
• ‘Christological Confrontation: Why Christ “for others” must be Christ “for everyone,”’ in Bonhoeffer and the Voice of the Other: Critical Essays on Bonhoeffer’s Theology in a World of Struggle, ed. Alison Walker, Anthony G. Reddie and Tim Judson (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2025, forthcoming).
• ‘Praying Vengeance as Loving Your Enemies?: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christological Creatureliness,’ in The Shiloh Project: Rape Culture, Religion and the Bible, ed. Caroline Blyth, Emily Colgan, Chris Greenough and Johanna Stiebert (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2024).
• ‘Amber-tinted spectacles: learning to live with lament,’ in Voicing New Questions for Baptist Identity, ed. Eleasah Roberts and Andy Goodliff (Oxford: Regents, 2023), 197–225.
• ‘Mrs Ferguson,’ in Journeying to Justice, ed. Anthony Reddie, Wale Hudson-Roberts and Gale Richards, (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2017), 200–2.

Articles

• ‘White on Black on White: the connection of Karl Barth and James H. Cone Dietrich Bonhoeffer,’ Black Theology (online), DoI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2223032
• ‘Baptist (dis)unity and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s socio-doctrinal understanding of the Church,’ Journal of Baptist Theology in Context 9 (2023): 5–29.
• ‘A Christian form of Lament: theological reflections on the place of lament in the New Testament,’ BRF Guidelines 39, no. 1 (2023).
• ‘White Lament: reckoning with racism through repentance,’ Black Theology 20, no.3 (2022): 221–34.
• ‘A word bleeding through the darkness,’ in The BRF Book of 365 Bible reflections, ed. Olivia Warburton and Karen Laister (Abingdon, BRF, 2021), 201.
• ‘Responsibility: A reflection on our responsibility as White Christians in a world where George Floyd was murdered.’ Posted by the Baptist Union of Great Britain Faith and Society Team on 15 October 2020, accessible on https://www.baptist.org.uk/Articles/589057/Responsibility.aspx.