1980-83 Regent’s Park College, Oxford.
MPhil (London Bible College)
PhD (University of Wales)
1992-2007 Tutor in church history and spirituality, Spurgeon’s College
1999 to 2002 Director of Baptist and Anabaptist Studies, International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague, Czech Republic.
2002 – Senior Research Fellow, International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague, Czech Republic.
2007- Director of Research, Spurgeon’s College
2009- Editor, Baptist Quarterly
Major Publications
‘Mere Denominationalism: F B Meyer and Baptist Life’, Baptist Quarterly 25.1 (1993)
‘Capturing Keswick: Baptists and the Changing Spirituality of the Keswick Convention in the 1920s’, Baptist Quarterly 36.7 (1996)
‘”Austere Ritual”: the Reformation of Worship in Inter-War English Congregationalism’ in R. N. Swanson (ed.), Continuity and Change in Christian Worship. Studies in Church History Vol 35 (Boydell, 1999)
Evangelical Experiences: A Study in Spirituality of English Evangelicalism 1918-1939 (Paternoster, 1999)
‘”Arresting People for Christ”: Baptists and the Oxford Group in the 1930s’, Baptist Quarterly 38.1 (1999)
Educating Evangelicalism: The Origins, Development and Impact of London Bible College (Paternoster, 2000)
with Charles Price, Transforming Keswick (Paternoster, 2000)
‘”Pious Wishes” Baptist Quarterly 38.7 (July 2000)
with David Hilborn, One Body in Christ: The history and significance of the Evangelical Alliance (Paternoster, 2001)
‘The blessings of an enlightened Christianity : North American involvement in European Baptist origins’, American Baptist Quarterly 20.1 (2001)
‘”Days of Pentecostal Overflowing”: Baptists and the Shaping of Pentecostalism’ in D. Bebbington (ed.), The Gospel in the World. SBHT Vol 1 (Paternoster, 2002)
with Tim Grass, ‘C. H. Spurgeon on the Sacraments’ in A. R. Cross and P. E. Thompson (eds.), Baptist Sacramentalism. SBHT Vol 5 (Paternoster, 2003)
Spirituality and Social Change: The Contribution of F.B. Meyer (1847-1929) (Paternoster Press, 2003)
‘A Good Bench of Bishops?’ in S. Murray-Williams (ed.), Translocal Ministry (Baptist Union, 2004)
The English Baptists of the 20th Century (Baptist Historical Society, 2005)
‘The Breath of Revival’: The Welsh Revival and Spurgeon’s College’ Baptist Quarterly 40.4 (2005)
‘English Baptists in the Twentieth Century’ Baptist Quarterly 41.7 (2005)
“‘The Low Condition of the Churches’: Difficulties Faced by the General Baptists in England – the 1680s to the 1760s”, Pacific Journal of Baptist Research, 1.1 (October 2005), 3-19.
What a Friend we have in Jesus: The Evangelical Tradition (Darton, Longmann & Todd, 2005)
‘A Mission Spirituality: Moravian Brethren and eighteen-century English evangelicalism’, Transformation 23.4 (October 2006)
‘Introduction’ in I. M. Randall, T. Pilli & A. R. Cross, Baptist Identities: International Studies from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Studies. SHBT Vol. 26 (Paternoster, 2006)
‘Mission in post-Christendom: Anabaptist and Free Church Perspectives’, Evangelical Quarterly LXXXIX.3 (Jul 2007)
‘”The world is our parish”: Spurgeon’s college and World Mission, 1856-1892′ in I. Randall & A. R. Cross (eds.), Baptists and Mission. SBHT Vol 29 (Paternoster, 2007)
‘Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the Pastor’s College and the Downgrade Controversy’ in K. Cooper and J. Gregory (eds.), Discipline and Diversity. Studies in Church History Vol 43 (Boydell, 2007)
‘Baptist Revival and Renewal in the 1960s’ in K. Cooper & J. Gregory (eds.), Revival and Resurgence in Christian History. Studies in Church History Vol 44 (Boydell, 2008)
Communities of Conviction: Baptist Beginnings in Europe and the Middle East (European Baptist Federation, 2009)
‘Part of a movement: Nigel Wright and Baptist Life’ in P. Lalleman (ed.), Challenging to Change: Dialogues with a radical baptist theologian. Essays presented to Dr Nigel G. Wright on his sixtieth birthday (Spurgeon’s College, 2009)