EDUCATION:

1987 – 1991: Studied at the Freie Hochschule der Christengemeinschaft, Stuttgart , training course for the priesthood

1991: Ordination

1994-2001: Study of Divinity at Aberdeen University

2001 Bachelor of Divinity with Honours (First Class)

•  Emphasis in Honours years: systematic Theology

•  Dissertation on Rudolf Steiner and Chalcedon

•  AM Hunter Prize in New Testament July 1996

• Eadie Prize July 1997

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1983-1987 Market gardening and working with people with learning difficulties in Camphill Botton Village

1991 - 1993 Congregational priest in Marburg , Germany

1993 -2000 Congregational priest in Aberdeen , UK

2000-2003 Director of the Freie Hochschule der Christengemeinschaft, Stuttgart. Emphasis in teaching at the Seminary: Hebrew Bible and New Testament

2004 Congregational priest in Stourbridge , UK . Visiting priest for East Clare, Ireland.

PUBLICATIONS:

Seven Sacraments in The Christian Community von Evelyn Capel, revised & republished 1999. (Floris Books, Edinburgh )

The Sacramental Consultation, 1998. (Floris Books, Edinburgh )

Various articles in “Perspectives”, journal of The Christian Community.

Editor of Perspectives, quarterly journal of The Christian Community in the English-speaking world.

FURTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Lecturer at the Seminary of The Christian Community in Hamburg , with a yearly course on Early Christianity.

Member of the Council of the Seminary in Hamburg.

LANGUAGES:

French, German, New Testament Greek