Both Baptists and Quakers offer a strong ethical element as part of their theological outlook but what is this like in detail and how do theologies of social justice differ between the two groups? This day will offer keynote presentations from both perspectives with responses from the other tradition. Attendance, including lunch, is complimentary.

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This event is organised by The Centre for Baptist Studies, Regent’s Park College and Woodbrooke Quaker Learning and Research.

Speakers:

1. Rhiannon Grant is an Associate Tutor for Woodbrooke and supervises research and teaches postgraduate students within the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies. Outside Woodbrooke, she researches and writes about Quakers for both academic and general audiences. Her interests centre on British Quakerism in the 20^th and 21^st centuries, especially Quaker theology, ways of speaking about God, and the developments in practice and religious diversity. For example, she has worked on Quaker lists of words for God, ‘afterwords’ and other practices at the end of meeting for worship, Liberal Quaker books of discipline or faith and practice and their theology, what happens when meeting for worship is held online, and how the British Quaker community incorporates nontheism, spiritual insights from Christianity and other religions, and dual and other complex religious identities.
2. Nathan McGuire is a Baptist minister at New Park Road Baptist Church, a South Londoner, writer and photographer. Since 2009, first with London’s Domestic Violence Intervention Project and now as a consultant, he has worked to prevent violence against women and girls and challenge the beliefs and structures that sustain harm. He has served as a campaigns officer for the Joint Public Issues Team and as a guest tutor at Spurgeon’s College. Nathan writes and speaks on racial justice, violence, faith and the cost of pursuing justice. He believes loving people well requires listening deeply, learning honestly and being willing to disturb the peace when that peace depends on injustice.
3. Richard Weaver.  Richard joined Cardiff Baptist College as a tutor in September 2022, having previously been a research associate at the college. Alongside his college ro9le, he is a community organiser with Citizens Cymru Wales, the Welsh chapter of Citizens UK. He graduated in December 2024 with a PhD awarded by the Graduate School of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit (VU), having studied through the VU and the International Baptist Theological Study Centre in Amsterdam. Richard’s doctoral thesis focused on developing a stronger Baptist theological ethic for the practice of social justice. 
4. Mark Russ is a theologian, teacher and author. His books include ‘Quaker Shaped Christianity’ (2022) and ‘The Spirit of Freedom’ (2024) published by Christian Alternative, and the forthcoming ‘Unapologetic: A Queer, Quaker Approach to the Bible’ published by Broadleaf. In 2026 he completes his PhD at the University of Nottingham researching Whiteness and liberal Quaker theology. From 2015 to 2022 he worked as a Programmes Coordinator at Woodbrooke. Mark has frequently presented ‘Pause for Thought’ on BBC Radio 2.