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My father was an active LP and I was brought up in a lively church in Birmingham which produced several ministers (including Stuart Burgess) and LPs. I first went “on note” in Nigeria when I was a junior doctor in a mission hospital, and I went on full plan three years later when I was a university lecturer in Dundee. I was much influenced by liberal extra-mural classes in theology, and I have continued to read authors like Spong and Mack who espouse a coherent non-literal view of the bible. My appreciation of high-churchmanship stems from chapel attendance at school and college, singing masses and requiems in choirs, and from belonging for 12 years to Catholic and Anglican churches in Pakistan and Malawi where there was no Methodist church. My aim is to convey the insights of rigorous liberal thinking from the universities to the pews, and to encourage the best in worship.
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