Panel with Steve Chalke, Selina Stone, Natalie Collins, Charlie Bell – Chaired by Mark Oakley.
Mark Oakley is the Dean of Southwark and a Festival of Preaching favourite. He is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Kings College London; Visiting Scholar at Sarum College, an Ambassador for StopHate UK, Patron of Tell MAMA (supporting those affected by anti-Muslim hate crime) and a Trustee of the Civil Liberties Trust. His books include By Way of the Heart: the Seasons of Faith, My Sour Sweet Days and The Splash of Words which won the Michael Ramsey Prize.
Mark was given the Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship by the Archbishop of Canterbury last year.
Steve Chalke is a Baptist Minister and founder of the charitable trust, Oasis. He is also a former United Nations Special Advisor on human trafficking. His most recent book is A Manifesto for Hope.
Natalie Collins is a Gender Justice Specialist. She is the Creator and Director of the DAY Programme for young people and the Own My Life course for women. Author of Out Of Control; couples, conflict and the capacity for change, she organises Project 3:28 and co-founded the UK Christian Feminist Network.
Dr Selina Stone is Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Divinity. She is host of the Sunday School for Misfits podcast and author of several books including Tarry Awhile: Wisdom from Black Spirituality for People of Faith, and most recently, A Heavy Yoke: Theology, Power and Abuse in the Church. She is a preacher, who teaches preachers, and is a sought-after speaker across Christian traditions.
Charlie Bell is Official Fellow and College Lecturer in Medicine and Public Theology at Girton College, Cambridge, and a Registrar in Forensic Psychiatry at St George’s and Southwest London NHS Foundation Trust. He is a priest in the Diocese of Southwark (Associate Vicar at St John the Divine, Kennington), Scholar in Residence at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City, Visiting Scholar at Sarum College, and a Research Fellow and Associate Tutor at St Augustine’s College of Theology. He has published in both medicine and theology, and in the space between the two. His research interests are primarily in the field of theological anthropology, including culpability, responsibility, and determinism. He is also research active in psychiatry, investigating possible biological signatures for psychiatric and personality disorder.