The Revd Dr Graham Tomlin is the Principal of St Paul’s Theological Centre and Dean of St Mellitus College. He studied English Literature and Theology at Oxford, and was curate of a church in Exeter, before returning to Oxford to be Chaplain of Jesus College and a tutor in Historical Theology and Evangelism at Wycliffe Hall, where he eventually became Vice Principal. He was for several years a member of the Theology Faculty of Oxford University, teaching on the Reformation and contemporary Mission and Culture, before moving to London in 2005. He is a member of the Church of England’s College of Evangelists. He is the author of numerous articles and several books, including ‘The Power of the Cross: Theology and the Death of Christ in Paul, Luther and Pascal’ (Paternoster 1999), 'The Provocative Church’ (SPCK 2002), ‘Luther and his World’ (Lion 2002), ‘The Responsive Church (IVP 2005), Spiritual Fitness: Christian Character in a Consumer Culture (Continuum 2006) and most recently 'The Seven Deadly Sins and How to Overcome Them' (Lion Hudson 2007). He is married to Janet, has two children and suffers from a lifelong addiction to Bristol City Football Club.
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The Revd Dr Andy Emerton is the Director of SPTC. Following Graham Tomlin's appointment as the first Dean of St Mellitus College, Andy has been appointed to work under Graham in overseeing the work of SPTC, especially the ordination training course here, which is part of St Mellitus. Andy studied in York, Oxford and Cambridge, has degrees in Maths and Theology as well as a doctorate in Theoretical Physics from Oxford University. He has worked for several years in a church in Guildford, trained for Anglican ministry at Ridley Hall in Cambridge, has extensive experience in youth work, and comes to SPTC from being curate at Holy Trinity Brompton, where he oversaw the work and development of over 50 pastorate groups at the heart of the church.

The Revd Dr Michael Lloyd is Tutor in Theology at SPTC he did his doctoral thesis on the problem of evil in Oxford. After that, he was on the staff of St. James the Less in Pimlico, before returning to Oxford to teach doctrine at St. Stephen's House. He was also a member of Oxford University's Faculty of Theology. He is the author of Cafe Theology, which he describes as ‘a romp through the whole of Christian theology’, published by Alpha International. For many years, he has taught at HTB's Home Focus week in the summer. He loves walking, theatre, cricket, music, and keeps worms.

Dr Jane Williams teaches Christian doctrine at SPTC. She is also a visiting Lecturer in Theology at King’s College London, having previously taught at Trinity College Bristol. She is the author of several books, including ‘Approaching Easter’ and ‘Approaching Christmas’, ‘Perfect Freedom’, ‘Who Do You Say That I am?' and most recently, 'Angels'. She is married to Rowan, who is Archbishop of Canterbury, and they have two children.

Associate Lecturers

Frog Orr-Ewing was appointed Vicar of All Saints, Peckham in 2002. At that time he was the youngest incumbent in the Church of England. Since then the congregation has experienced rapid growth through conversion amongst urban youth, children and adults. The church now impacts hundreds of young people every week in Peckham through small groups, mentoring, clubs and schools work. Frog led a mission called 'God Loves Peckham' in the summer of 2006 where he and his team had the privilege of seeing over 100 people come to know Christ. Frog became a Christian himself as a teenager, and went on to study theology. He worked in the city before getting ordained, and spent 3 years in Oxford as curate at St Aldates Church.
He is married to Amy and they have twin baby boys, Zachary and Elijah. He has an MTh from Oxford, is co-author of 'Holy Warriors', and is currently working on a London University doctorate. When he gets any spare time, Frog loves to paint and draw.

Ric Thorpe worked in marketing with Unilever before joining the staff at Holy Trinity Brompton, London in 1990. He became Music Director and Worship Leader, as well as assisting and traveling with Sandy Millar, Priest-in-Charge of St Mark's, Tollington Park, and Nicky Gumbel, Vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton. He trained for ordination into the Church of England at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and was ordained in 1996. He was appointed curate to Sandy Millar at Holy Trinity overseeing the Pastorate groups and Worship team there for eight years. He was involved in Alpha courses at Holy Trinity Brompton, as well as speaking at Alpha conferences in the UK, Europe and the US.
In January 2005, Ric led a church plant to St Paul's Shadwell in East London taking 100 people to join a dwindling and aging congregation of ten. The church is growing and becoming established as an outward-looking church through local mission and supporting other local churches.
He is married to Louie and they have three children, Zoe, Barny and Toby.

Rev'd Dr Joanna Collicutt McGrath is lecturer in psychology of religion at Heythrop College, University of London and curate of Witney Team Parish in Oxfordshire. She has many years experience as a practising consultant clinical psychologist, most recently as head of psychology services at the Nuffield Orthopaedic NHS Trust in Oxford.

She studied experimental psychology and theology at the University of Oxford, and clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. She has also worked in theological research and taught psychology of religion and pastoral psychology at the University of Oxford.

Her interests are wide ranging and include cognitive behaviour therapy, brain and behaviour, psychological approaches to biblical exegesis, psychological responses to trauma, the spirituality of children and those with special needs, and medical ethics. She is a trustee of Godly Play UK and chair of the Michael Argyle Forum for Psychology and Religion. Her books include 'Meeting Jesus: Human responses to a yearning God' (with Jeremy Duff, SPCK, 2006) and 'Self esteem: the cross and Christian confidence' (with Alister McGrath, IVP, 2002).

She is married to Alister McGrath and they have two grown up children.

Simon Downham is the Vicar of St Paul's, Hammersmith. His career began as a commercial lawyer, specialising in International Corporate Finance . He later gained a first from Oxford schools of theology when training for ordination at Wycliffe Hall. In 1994 Simon became assistant curate at HTB, and in 2000 he led a planting team to reestablish St Pauls Hammersmith . Simon continues his interest in theological matters, and, having gained an MA with Colin Gunton at Kings College London, is now pursuing post graduate study in theological anthropology. He is in increasing demand as a speaker around the UK and has given the main Bible readings at New Wine . Simon's great passion is the history of art and he has a special interest in colourist painting. He is also a life long supporter of Carlisle United. Simon is married to Anna and has four children .

Sean Doherty is curate of St Gabriel's, Cricklewood, a vibrant and diverse church in North London, and is completing a doctorate on methodology in economic ethics at Oxford. He is married to Gaby, who is Youth Minister at St Gabriel's, and they have a daughter. He has taught medical ethics at Oxford and has written a Grove booklet on it, Foundations for Medical Ethics. He is also a member of the Grove ethics group. Sean became a Christian at Soul Survivor, and before ordination he worked for Barclays Bank and USPG, an Anglican mission agency. He likes detective fiction, curry and visiting National Trust properties!

Rev'd Ian Mobsby is an Ordained Missioner working with moot.uk.net, a fresh expressions of church project in Westminster central London. Ian has been involved with three alternative worship and emerging church projects for over 17 years, and is one of the leading voices in the UK emerging church. Two years ago he became an Associate Missioner of the Archbishop’s Fresh Expressions team. Ian has been involved in the Greenbelt Arts Festival, as part of the worship planning group. Recent research Ian has completed for an MA in pastoral theology on the subject of ‘emerging and fresh expressions of church’ is to be published in Ian’s first book.