Chair of TAG: Rev Dr David Hilborn
David is principal of Moorlands College in Dorset. Prior to taking up this role, he was principal of St John’s College Nottingham from 2012 – 2018, and principal of the North Thames Ministerial Training Course and assistant dean of St Mellitus College from 2006 – 2012. David was head of theology at the Evangelical Alliance from 1997 to 2006 and an Associate Research Fellow of the London School of Theology between 2000 and 2012. He led three URC congregations before joining the Church of England in 2002 and served for ten years on the CofE’s Faith and Order Commission.
David has written and edited a number of books, including The Nature of Hell; One Body in Christ: The History and Significance of the Evangelical Alliance (with Ian Randall); ​‘Toronto’ in Perspective; God and the Generations: Youth, Age and the Church Today (with Matt Bird); Movement for Change: Evangelicals and Social Transformation (all Paternoster) and The Atonement Debate (with Derek Tidball and Justin Thacker — Zondervan). He is a member of the Society for Pentecostal Studies and recently contributed a chapter on Anglican-Pentecostal relations to the Harold D. Hunter & Neil Ormerod-edited volume The Many Faces of Global Pentecostalism (CPT).
His wife, Mia, is a senior hospital chaplain and they have two children. He enjoys cricket, folk rock music and poetry.
Vice chair of TAG: Philippa Taylor
Philippa is head of public policy at the Christian Medical Fellowship. She is also a consultant on bioethics and the family for CARE. She has an MA in bioethics from St Mary’s University College and for the past, twenty or so years has been speaking, writing, advising and working on a wide range of contemporary family and bioethics issues in the UK. Philippa is married to Martyn, a Church of England vicar, and they have three teenage children.
Members of TAG
Andrew Goddard: Andrew is assistant minister at St James the Less, Pimlico. He is a Christian ethicist who currently teaches at Ridley Hall, Cambridge and Westminster Theological Centre. Previously, he taught in Oxford and Bristol, as well as for Fuller Theological Seminary. For a number of years, he was associate director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics (KLICE). With Don Horrocks he authored the Evangelical Alliance’s Biblical and Pastoral Responses to Homosexuality and has written particularly on sexual ethics, Anglicanism, and the French Reformed thinker Jacques Ellul. Andrew is also a member of the Church of England Evangelical Council.
Peter Morden: Peter is Cornerstone Baptist Church, a multi-congregational church serving diverse communities across north Leeds. He was formerly Vice Principal of Spurgeon’s College, London. He continues to serve Spurgeon’s as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar and is also an Associate Tutor at St Hild College, Yorkshire. Evangelical history and evangelical spirituality, and how these relate to mission and ministry today, are his main research interests and he has written a range of articles and books on these themes. These include ​‘Communion with Christ and his People’: The Spirituality of C.H. Spurgeon (Wipf and Stock, 2014) and The Message of Discipleship: Following Jesus in Today’s World (Leicester: IVP, 2018).
To relax he runs, walks, spends time with family and friends and is a perennially hopeful supporter of Crystal Palace FC.
Dave Newton is the Director of Training for Elim Pentecostal Churches and Principal of Regents Theological College. He has extensive experience in equipping leaders and leading mission organisations and has a proven track record leading change in this environment. Dave served for over 10 years on the Youth for Christ leadership team where he pioneered and established many projects of national significance. He completed his MA in Mission in 2010 with a particular research emphasis on Gospel articulation in contemporary society. An ordained Elim minister, Dave is responsible for ministry training throughout the Elim movement, he is a gifted thinker, innovator and trainer, speaking all over the country and occasionally around the world. Dave is married to Liz and they have three kids. He enjoys running, keeping fit, playing and watching football… when he is not eating curry and chocolate!
Daniel Strange: Daniel is academic vice-principal and tutor in Culture, Religion and Public Theology at Oak Hill Theological College, London. He is the author of For Their Rock is Not as our Rock: An Evangelical Theology of Religions (Apollos, 2014). With Gavin D’Costa and Paul Knitter, he is the co-author of Only One Way? Three Christian Responses to the Uniqueness of Christ in a Pluralistic World (SCM, 2011). Dan is married to Elly, has seven kids and is an Elder at East Finchley Baptist Church. Amongst other things, he’s a bit of a classic music and jazz geek and also loves listening to the Frank Skinner radio show.
Dave Landrum: Dave has been our director of advocacy since June 2011, when he joined the Evangelical Alliance from his previous role as a parliamentary officer for the Bible Society. He has a first-class degree in contemporary politics and urban policy studies and a doctorate in politics and policy process in education. Well-respected in parliament, Dave’s passion is to see Christianity making an impact on society by being at the centre of political, cultural and economic life.
Don Horrocks: Don was Head of Public Policy at the Evangelical Alliance for 15 years until he retired in 2015. His previous experience was in corporate finance until 1995 when he began undergraduate and PhD studies at the London School of Theology where he subsequently taught as a research associate. He served on a number of advisory bodies including the Charity Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission and was instrumental in developing the ministry of Living Out. He remains a research associate at the London School of Theology and is an accredited Baptist minister. He currently serves on boards of a number of Christian organisations.
Ian Paul: Ian is Honorary Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, Associate Minister at St Nic’s, Nottingham, and Managing Editor of Grove Books Ltd. He writes one of the leading blogs on theology and biblical studies at www​.pse​phi​zo​.com. He previously studied maths at Oxford and Southampton before working in the industrial business with Mars Confectionery in production and personnel. After studying theology at Nottingham and completing a PhD on Ricoeur, metaphor and Revelation, he was on the staff of St Mary’s Poole for eight years before returning to Nottingham as Dean of Studies at St John’s College for nearly 10 years. He has written widely on biblical interpretation, apocalyptic, and gender and sexuality. He is married to Maggie; they have three children and a dog called Barney. He is an inveterate chocoholic.
Jenny Taylor: Jenny is founding director of the Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs (formerly Lapido Media), a pioneer of the religious literacy movement. An international public speaker and journalist, her articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Times and the European press among many others. She co-authored Faith and Power: Christianity and Islam in Secular Britain with Lamin Sanneh and Lesslie Newbigin in 1998 and is author of A Wild Constraint: the Case for Chastity (Continuum 2008). Her doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2001 in the sociology of religion was a case study of the de-secularisation of the British government under the impact of Islam. She was also the media representative on the Research Councils’ UK Global Uncertainties Programme Religion and Security exercise under the auspices of the Open University.
Julia Doxat-Purser: Julia is the European Evangelical Alliance’s socio-political representative and religious liberty coordinator. Julia’s role is to help evangelicals engage in the public arena effectively and in a Christ-like manner. She particularly enjoys encouraging the next generation of evangelicals and works in partnership with IFES. She teaches, writes, offers advocacy and consultancy support and connects specialists together. She co-convenes the European Religious Liberty Forum, bringing together the Christian religious liberty community. Her main research and advocacy interest are how to promote freedom of conscience so that society understands how vital a foundational right it is for everyone. She founded and facilitates European Freedom Network, linking ministries working on human trafficking and prostitution. Julia’s favourite places are at a dinner table with her husband Alistair and friends, her garden, walking by and swimming in the sea.
Peter Morden: Peter is Senior Pastor of South Parade Baptist Church, a multi congregational church serving various diverse communities across north Leeds. He was formerly Vice Principal of Spurgeon’s College, London. He continues to serve Spurgeon’s as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar and is also an Associate Tutor at St Hild College, Yorkshire. Evangelical history and evangelical spirituality, and how these relate to mission and ministry today, are his main research interests and he has written a range of articles and books on these themes. These include ​‘Communion with Christ and his People’: The Spirituality of C.H. Spurgeon (Wipf and Stock, 2014), a theological biography of pioneering eighteenth-century missionary statesman Andrew Fuller, The Life and Thought of Andrew Fuller (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2015), and, most recently, a chapter on Evangelical Spirituality in The Routledge Research Companion to the History of Evangelicalism (London: Routledge, 2018). He has also written The Message of Discipleship: Following Jesus in Today’s World (Leicester: IVP, 2018).
As well as academic writing, Peter has authored biographies of Spurgeon and John Bunyan for more general readers, published by CWR, and was the historical consultant for the award winning docudrama: ​‘C.H. Spurgeon: The People’s Preacher’. He was happily married to Anne for 26 years before her death in 2018 following a courageous and faith-filled battle with cancer. He has two children, Rachel and Joseph. To relax he runs, walks, spends time with family and friends and is a perennially hopeful supporter of Crystal Palace FC.
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