Gale completed a PhD with the University of Aberdeen exploring the womanist perspectives of Black British Baptist women leaders for the renewal of Baptist church practices. Gale is currently leading the Birmingham Baptist Churches exploring their Black History research project.
Gale is also a part-time regional minister for the Eastern Baptist Association, an Ecumenical Canon at Ely Cathedral, and a chaplain at Anglia Ruskin University.
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Selected Publications
Books
- (ed.) with Anthony Reddie and Wale Hudson-Roberts, Journeying to Justice: Contributions to the Baptist Tradition Across the Black Atlantic (Paternoster, 2017)
- Book Chapter: ‘Learning from the Church’s Role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Responding to the Exploitation and Trafficking of People Today’ in Slavery-Free Communities edited by Dan Pratt (SCM, 2021)
- Book Chapter: ‘Black Baptist voices and the theological imperatives of a Black Lives Matter movement’ in Helen Paynter, and Peter Hatton (eds.) (2022) Attending to the Margins: Essays in Honour of Stephen Finamore, Oxford: Regents Park College, Centre for Baptist Studies
Articles and Research Papers
- ‘Learning from a Pattern in Black Baptist Women’s Formation for Ordained Ministry at English Baptist Colleges’, Baptist Quarterly, Volume 55, 2024, Issue 4
- ‘James McClendon and the Use of Biography for Christian Ethics’ in Journal of Baptist Theology in Context, Issue 7 (2022)