Roger has spent 30 years in pastoral ministry, for the most part in the UK, East Midlands. During that time he also was a member of the steering groups of the former Alliance Commission for Unity and Truth among Evangelicals (ACUTE) and the Human Aspects Group (HAG) of the Emergency Planning Society. He gained his doctorate, exploring a practical theology of major incident response for the evangelical Church in the UK, in 2011, and is currently Research Associate for Natural Disasters at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge where he is researching the religious beliefs of groups of Christians in Haiti who have been affected by the 2010 earthquake, to see how those beliefs impacted on their response to and recovery from the event. Roger is a member of the British & Irish Association of Practical Theology (BAIPT). He is married and they have five children and four grandchildren to keep them permanently young.
Qualifications
BA (CNAA, Hons); PhD, University of Wales Trinity St David
Modules taught
TH7809/TH8806 Pastoral Response to Trauma
Research Interests
The nature of trauma and its effect on the human being
The impact of Christian beliefs on survivors in their response to and recovery from natural hazards
Christian ecumenical and interfaith friendship in the public sphere
Select Publications
Sit On Our Hands, or Stand On Our Feet? (Wipf & Stock, forthcoming)
“Trauma, Compassion and Community: Reconciling Opposites in the Interests of Post-traumatic Growth,” Practical Theology Vol. 5 No. 1 (2012): 3
“Frustrated Reform: Puritanism under Elizabeth I,” in Perfecting the Church Below. Paper read at the Westminster Conference, London, 1990.
“John Owen and the Basis of Christian Unity,” in Out of Bondage. Paper read at the Westminster Conference, London, 1983.
Contact
Email address: roger.a@ntlworld.com