• 2008 MA 
• 2009 MTh 
• 2013 PhD (Cantab.)
• 2019 FHEA

I work in the area of Christian theology. More specifically I am interested in the relation between religious belief and religious practice. What are the things Christians do and in what ways are these things involved in the complicated process of belief-production? And how are these practices themselves shaped and guided by the things Christian believe? I am particularly interested in the way these questions get framed and theorised in modern theology.

In terms of actual religious practices, I am primarily interested in what might be called ‘everyday’ (or nearly everyday) religious practices. I have written on Evensong in Anglican liturgy, the Sabbath as a form of contemplation, the Sabbath as ecological practice, baptism, the saying of the creeds in worship, the idea of giving glory to God, the theological reading of non-biblical books, and more generally and variously theological matters relating to the practice of prayer. There are few things more ordinary than prayer - for all the rich diversity of the Christian tradition, there is one thing that pretty much all Christians do, and that is to pray. I have found prayer to be a useful ‘way in’ to investigating the relation between belief-formation and practice. Alongside the everyday, I am also interested the big issues facing the world; and there is no larger challenge than the environmental crisis. My next major research project revisits classical accounts of the Christian doctrine of creation in relation to climate change - and again I am interested in the small steps, the everyday practices (of prayer) that might help to imagine and shape a better world.

I am the author of Karl Barth on Prayer (Studies in Systematic Theology Series; T&T Clark / Bloomsbury, 2015) and Prayer: A Guide for the Perplexed (T&T Clark / Bloomsbury, 2018), and the co-editor of The Grammar of Grace: Readings from the Christian Tradition (Cascade Books, 2019).

• Reviews of Karl Barth on Prayer (2015): Religion and Theology, 23.2 (2016); Choice (2016); Theology in Scotland, 23.1 (2016); Expository Times, 28.3 (2016); International Journal of Systematic Theology, 19.2 (2017); Modern Theology, 33.3 (2017); Theologischen Literaturzeitung (2017, Nr. 4); Centre for Karl Barth Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary (December 2017); Journal of Reformed Theology, 11.4 (2018).

• Reviews of Prayer: A Guide for the Perplexed (2018): Church of England Newspaper (Sep 2018); The Way, 58.2 (2019); The Reader Magazine (Winter, 2018); Church Times (January 19); Reviews in Religion and Theology, 26.1 (2019); Theology, 122.2 (2019); Regents Review, 10.2 (2019); Anglican Theological Review, 102.2 (2020); Theological Studies, forthcoming (2019); Reading Religion, American Academy of Religion (2019).

I am currently co-editing a volume on Karl Barth's spiritual writings for the Classics of Western Spirituality Series by Paulist Press and nearing the final stages of editing The T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Prayer for Bloomsbury. Both of these volumes should be published in 2021. Next in the pipeline is a study of glory for Baker Academic which I am co-writing with David F. Ford. The longer term project is a monograph on the doctrine of creation, provisionally entitled ‘Contemplating Creation: Christian Doctrine in Practice', which comes at the doctrine of creation via an unusal attention to contemplative practice.

I have co-ordinated a variety of modules accross all levels (FdA, BTh, BA, MA, DTh), including:

• Introduction to Christian Doctrine
• Study Skills for Ministerial Theology*
• Liturgy and Liberty in Worship*
• The Contexts of Ministry 2/3*
• Dissertations and Special Essay coordinator and supervisor*
• Practicing Systematic Theology*
• Publishable Article*.

* For 2019/20.

• God and Study Skills: Learning as Formation

• British and Irish Association for Practical Theology
• Society for the Study of Theology
• American Academy of Religion
• Karl Barth Society of North America.