Ally Barrett is a published writer, hymnodist and painter. She studied both music and theology at Clare College, Cambridge. Since her ordination in 2003 she has served as a parish priest, a children’s minister in the USA, a theological college tutor in pastoral and practical theology, and as Dean of Chapel at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, before moving to her current role as Associate Vicar of Great St Mary’s in 2024. She is the author of Preaching with All Ages.
Ayla Lepine is an art historian and theologian. Following her PhD at the Courtauld Institute, Ayla has been a Fellow and lecturer at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music, the National Gallery and King’s College London. She is currently Associate Rector at St James’s Piccadilly. Her book, Women, Art, God will be published in October this year, and she is co-curator of the National Gallery exhibition, Fruit of the Spirit: Art from the Heart. She is a member of the Church of England’s Contested Heritage Committee and was a 2026 Holy Week guest preacher on faith and art at Canterbury Cathedral.