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The Committee

The following is a list of Committee members , with an e-mail link and short introduction to each.

Daphne Cook

Daphne is married to John. They have three children and four grandchildren. Daphne has been open to God's great variety since she left school, when her first adult role was as a housemother in a Dr Barnardo's home. Since that time, she has journeyed within organisations (e.g. as a Trustee of FLAME, Family Life and Marriage Education, of the Church of England) and as an individual, alongside those engaged in deepening their understanding of their sexuality and relationships. This has included the single, married and the gender dysphoric.

Jane Fraser

Jane is our Chair. She was made an Honorary Canon of Worcester Cathedral in 2005. She is a member of the Church of England’s General Synod. As a Minister in Secular Employment and a qualified social worker and counsellor, she now works as a freelance trainer and consultant on sexuality and relationship issues. She undertakes training for teaching, health and social care professionals and also for clergy and laity. She has worked for Brook Centres, initially engaged in counseling young people and in outreach work. Later, for many years, she was responsible for developing their sex education materials for young people and teaching resources for professionals responsible for educating young people on issues relating to sexuality. She has also served as a faith advisor member of the Government’s Independent Advisory Group on Teenage Pregnancy.

Michael Moran

Michael is the most recent addition to our committee. He is a retired United States Navy Nurse Corps Officer and a former Alexian Brother. Michael has been interested in the relationship between Christianity and sexuality since the late 70s when he was a student at the Catholic University of America earning a Masters of Science Degree in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. During his graduate studies he created a model of the human person that included a spiritual and a sexual dimension in addition to the physical, emotional, interpersonal and intellectual dimensions. In 1986 Michael completed a two-year training program in spiritual direction sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia. He was awarded a certificate in Salesian Studies by the De Sales School of Theology in Washington, DC, in 1996. Michael is the Assistant Superior General of the Sons of St Francis de Sales and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Mastery Foundation where he serves as a coach in their School for Leadership.

Martin Pendergast

Martin lives in Hackney, London. He studied theology at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University and Bristol University. He is a qualified social worker, having managed Child and Family social work at St. Thomas' Hospital. There he specialised in assessment and treatment of child sexual abuse and also developed some of the first social services for people with HIV/AIDS. Martin is a Steering Group member of the Roman Catholic Caucus of the Lesbian & Gay Christian Movement and coordinates twice-a-month Masses for London's lesbian and gay Catholic community. He is also Executive Secretary of Catholics for AIDS Prevention & Support.

He was a member of the Catholic Bishops Conference Social Welfare Committee, and for the past 5 years has been a faith advisor member of the Government's Independent Advisory Group on Teenage Pregnancy and has worked on sex and relationships education in a variety of Catholic settings.

Anthony Woollard

Anthony is the editor of CSCS News. A former Civil Servant in the Department for Education, he holds degrees in Theology from the University of Oxford and from Union Theological Seminary, New York. He lives in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he is Treasurer of Holy Trinity Church as well as a member of Coventry Diocesan Synod and a Council member of the Modern Churchpeople’s Union.

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This web page updated April 2009