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Rebuilding Communion Contributors
Rebuilding Communion Contributors
Book Contributors
Edwin Arrison is a South African Anglican priest and social entrepreneur whose work focuses mainly on broad-based black economic empowerment and closing the inequality gap in South Africa.
Peter Francis (Editor) is Warden of St Deiniol’s Library in North Wales. He has co-edited Cinema Divinite (SCM Press) and Changing Rural Life (Canterbury Press) as well as editing two books on William Gladstone The Gladstone Umbrella and The Grand Old Man (both for Monad Press).
Savitri Hensman was born in Sri Lanka. She works in the voluntary sector in London in health and social care, equalities and community development and is a respected writer on Christianity and social justice.
Michael Hopkins is a rector of an Episcopal Church in Rochester, New York and from 1998 - 2003 was President of Integrity USA, a non-profit organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Episcopalians work for the full inclusion in the Episcopal Church and equal access to its rites.
Michael Ingham has been Bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster in the Anglican Church of Canada since January 1994. He is the author of two books Rites for a New Age and Mansions of the Spirit, an introduction to inter-faith dialogue, which appeared in 1997. He has also written many articles and book reviews, and speaks frequently to lay and professional groups across North America on current theological issues.
Richard Kirker is Chief Executive of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, a post he has held since 1979. An ordained deacon in the Church of England, he has written dozens of articles, makes regular media appearances and edits Lesbian and Gay Christians.
Davis Mac-Iyalla is the leader of Changing Attitudes Nigeria, a gay and lesbian advocacy group.
Donn Mitchell is a lay leader in the Diocese of New York. Both a journalist and a historian, he is currently the editor of The Anglican Examiner, an on-line publication found at www.AnglicanExaminer.com. He is a graduate of the General Theological Seminary and formerly staffed the Fellows Forum of the Episcopal Church Foundation.
Martyn Percy has been Principal of Ripon College, Cuddesdon since 2004. He teaches and researches in three areas: practical theology, modern ecclesiology, and Christianity and contemporary culture. Martyn is a regular contributor to Radio 4, the BBC World Service, The Independent, The Guardian and other media. His recent books include Salt of the Earth: Religious Resilience in a Secular Age (T&T Clark), Engagements: Essays on Christianity and Contemporary Culture (Ashgate) and Clergy: The Origin of Species (Continuum).
Muriel Porter is a member of the Australian General Synod, itsStanding Committee and Doctrine Commission. She isthe author of several books including Sex, Power and the Clergy and The New Puritans: the Rise of Fundamentalism in the Anglican Church. She is a journalist and a regular contributor to Church Times. Muriel was Senior Lecturer in Journalism at RMIT University in Melbourne.
Donald Reeves is a former Rector of St James’ Piccadilly, London. He is the Founder and Director of the Soul of Europe working for reconciliation in the Balkans. He is a Visiting Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University, teaching Peace Studies and assisting in the setting up of the George Mitchell Centre for Conflict Resolution. He is the author of Making Sense of Religion (BBC Books) and Down to Earth (Continuum). To be published are A Very Dangerous Man - a Memoir (Continuum) and together with Peter Pelz The White House - from hatred to a handshake ('O' Books, October 2008). In 2008, he was awarded the MBE for 'interfaith work, peacebuilding and conflict resolution in Bosnia'.
Mario Ribas is a priest from the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil, currently working as senior researcher at the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town. He served for five years as Rector of All Saints’ Church in the Diocese of Sao Paulo and is the author of several articles including The Church in the Closet and Practising Sexual Theology – Undressing sex, pleasure, sin and guilt in colonised mentalities.
Simon Sarmiento used to work for a major computer software company, based in London and now writes atThinking Anglicans, an influential blogging site tracking events and issues in the worldwide Anglican Communion.
Andrew Village is Senior Lecturer in Practical and Empirical Theology at York St John University. He served as a parish priest before working in universities to delivery ministry training in partnership with churches from a wide range of traditions. His research interests include the attitudes and beliefs of churchgoers. He is the author of The Bible and Lay People (Ashgate).
