Revd. Dr. Callan Slipper (Chair)
Callan Slipper (PhD, Lancaster University) was National Ecumenical Officer for the Church of England’s Council for Christian Unity from 2017-2022. Prior to that he had been both a County and a Denominational Ecumenical Officer and worked as a writer, theologian, and publisher. An Anglican priest, he is a member of the Focolare Movement and is a member of its international study centre, the Abba School. He is author of Five Steps to Living Christian Unity and Enriched by the Other: A Spiritual Guide to Receptive Ecumenism.
Revd. Dr. Alison Evans (Secretary)
Alison Evans is a Baptist minister who has served churches in Cardiff and Gloucestershire. She has extensive experience of local ecumenism, having also worked as County Ecumenical Officer for Gloucestershire. For several years she represented the South West Region on the Churches Together in England Enabling Group. She is a member of a Baptist, Methodist, URC LEP in Gloucestershire.
Andy Pettman (Treasurer)
Andy Pettman is the President of the European branch of the ecumenical movement of Christian Communities called the Sword of the Spirit. Before this he was the main leader for ten years of the Antioch Community in West London (a member community of the Sword of the Spirit) and still continues as part of the leadership team. He is also an elder in new-monastic ecumenical brotherhood called the Servants of the Word, where he is responsible for men entering the brotherhood’s life. Andy is an Anglican and is part of a Church of England church close to where he lives in Acton.
Revd. Dr. Robin Gibbons
Robin Gibbons was a Benedictine monk but is now a Byzantine Rite, Melkite Greek Catholic Priest serving Eastern Catholics in the UK. He has been involved in ecumenical work for many years. An academic for over 35 years, at Heythrop, St Mary’s University Twickenham and Oxford, he is a senior member of Regents Park College. He is an honorary ecumenical canon of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford and All Saints Anglican Cathedral and Diocese, Edmonton, Canada.
A member of a number of theological groups, he writes on Eastern Christianity, Liturgy, Christian Material Culture and Ecumenism His last book: For the Life of the Word, was about Eastern Christian reflections on the Environment.
Dominic Robinson
Fr Dominic Robinson, SJ is the Vice-Chair of the Society for Ecumenical Studies and Co-Secretary of the United Reformed/ Roman Catholic Dialogue. He is also Parish Priest of Farm Street, the Jesuit Church in central London, UK director of Landings, the programme for returning Catholics, teaches Theology at St Mary’s University, is Chair of Justice & Peace in the Diocese of Westminster and Ecclesiastical Assistant to the charity Aid to the Church in Need.
Racheal Adebayo
Racheal Adebayo is a theologian and educationalist who has taught in higher education institutions in Nigeria and the UK. Her doctoral research at the University of Warwick investigated the religion and spirituality of black teenagers in the UK. Currently she is a lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire, Birmingham campus where she continues her research work. She is a member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God and serves as a pastor at a parish in Leicester.
Dr. Anna Krauss
Dr. Anna Krauss is the General Secretary of the Council of Lutheran Churches in Great Britain and a President of Churches Together in England.
Major Paul Hilditch
Paul was commissioned as a Salvation Army officer in 1989 and has spent most of his ministry in Salvationist congregations in the British Isles. Since 2014 he has been a staff member at William Booth College where he is now the degree course leader for a BA (Hons) in Christian Theology and Ministry and is also a tutor on the BA (Hons) Pastoral Care with Psychology. Paul’s particular interest is the study of Jewish Christian relations and post-Holocaust theologies.