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The Committee The following is a list of Committee members , with an e-mail link and short introduction to each. Heather lives in the south London suburbs and has been married for over 50 years with sons, grandchildren and a great-grandchild. She describes herself as “a Baptist with Quaker leanings attending an Anglican church”. She was more or less a founder member of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement and also of CSCS and of the Baptist Network Affirming Lesbian and Gay Christians. She is disabled, a poet and a member of her local folk-song group. Jane 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. Colin is our Treasurer. He has been a vicar and has taught in secondary schools, a sixth-form college and a theological college. He is currently a senior examiner in A level Critical Thinking and has Permission to Officiate in the Diocese of Chester. He has research degrees in New Testament and Ethics, and his principal current research interest is the interface between those two disciplines, especially in relation to sexual ethics. Michael 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 lives in Hackney, London. He has theology degrees from 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, London. 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. He is a Trustee of NAM/AIDSMAP and also Executive Secretary of Catholics for AIDS Prevention & Support. He was a founder member of the Roman Catholic Caucus of the Lesbian & Gay Christian Movement and also of the Cutting Edge Consortium promoting equality, human rights, and challenging faith-based homophobia and transphobia. He contributes regularly to The Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’ column, particularly covering issues of faith and sexuality. He coordinates liturgy and music in a Catholic parish near London’s Barbican. He is also active in the Soho Masses LGBT Catholic community. He was a member of the Catholic Bishops Conference Social Welfare Committee, and a faith-advisory member of the Government’s Independent Advisory Group on Teenage Pregnancy for five years. He has worked on sex and relationships education in a variety of Catholic settings. 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. This web page updated April 2009 |
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