Curriculum Vitae
1968: born in Cuckfield, Sussex, on Twelfth Night, the Feast of the Epiphany. Brought up in neighbouring Lindfield. Educated in local state schools till age nineteen.
1987-1990: read English at Regent's Park College in University of Oxford. After graduation tutored and lectured for Oxford University and for the study abroad programs of various American universities and colleges (e.g., Stanford University, CA; Williams College, MA; Wheaton College, IL) on freelance basis. Worked as proof-reader and copy-editor for Lion publishing (now Lion Hudson) and the Bible Reading Fellowship. Wrote film and theatre reviews for Daily Information and Bible-reading notes for Scripture Union. Occasionally an extra in TV and film (1993-1999): first film was Richard Attenborough's Shadowlands, about C.S. Lewis's late marriage and bereavement; last was the James Bond movie, The World Is Not Enough.
1996-1999: lived at The Kilns, Lewis's Oxford home, as resident warden and curator, looking after the property on behalf of its owner, The C.S. Lewis Foundation.
1993-1999: officer of the Oxford University Lewis Society.
1999: moved to Cambridge. Read Theology at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge (1999-2001); trained for ministry in Anglican Church at Ridley Hall, Cambridge Theological Federation (1999-2004).
2001-2005: completed PhD in Divinity at St Mary's College, University of St Andrews; supervisors in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, Jeremy Begbie and Trevor Hart.
2004: ordained deacon in the Church of England; priest in 2005. Served title as Chaplain of Peterhouse and as Assistant Curate at Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire.
Since 2007, member of Steering Committee, The Wade Center, Wheaton College, IL.
The Collect for the Feast of the Epiphany (Book of Common Prayer, 1662)
O God, who by the leading of a star didst manifest thy only-begotten Son to the Gentiles: Mercifully grant, that we, which know thee now by faith, may after this life have the fruition of thy glorious Godhead; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
