Welcome to my website.

I’m an Anglican priest, now retired from ministry, but continuing to teach in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Lampeter University in Wales. Lampeter has the distinction of being the smallest university in Europe, but also has one of the largest theological faculties. Working in a strategic alliance with Bangor, another Welsh University, we have sixty faculty members serving over 3000 students. Lampeter has an extensive distance learning programme with many international students and for more information about that visit Lampeter University under Links on this page. I am Course Director for the MA Theology and DMin programmes, teach two modules in the DMin programme (Mission in Context and Action-Research for Ministry), and supervise Masters and Doctoral dissertations.

My particular interests are the interfaces between religion, sociology, politics, economics and culture. These concerns developed over many years spent wrestling with issues of justice, peace, development and liberation first as a parish priest in a deprived area of South London, and then through time spent in Palestine as a priest-sociologist, back in the UK working in community and race relations for the churches, and then a long period working for the Roman Catholic Church and the National Council of Churches in New Zealand in development education. You will find these interests reflected throughout this site and particularly in the weekly comment I write on contemporary issues. While I have always had an interest in teaching, I turned to fulltime academic life late in my career, and still prefer to see myself as a practitioner rather than an academic.

This site is continually being developed, so please visit again.

Michael