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, 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. Occasionally an extra in TV and film (1993-1999): first film was Richard Attenborough's Shadowlands; 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.
1999-2001: read Theology at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge.
1999-2004: trained for ministry in Anglican Church at Ridley Hall, Cambridge Theological Federation.
2001-2005: completed PhD in Divinity at University of St Andrews. Ordained deacon in Church of England in 2004 and priest in 2005.
2004-2007: Chaplain of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge; Assistant Curate at Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire.
2007: member of Steering Committee, The Wade Center, Wheaton College, IL.
2008: year-long lecture tour, speaking about Planet Narnia in the U.K. and U.S.
2009: lecturer, writer, and presenter of The Narnia Code, a one-hour documentary for BBC television (broadcast 16th April 2009 on BBC1 and available soon on DVD)
2009-now: Associate Editor of PoemaDay; Chaplain of St Peter's College, Oxford.
2010: co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis
The Collect for the Feast of the Epiphany
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.
(Book of Common Prayer, 1662)
