{"id":1590,"date":"2016-10-06T12:02:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T12:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utusheffield.org.uk\/?page_id=1590"},"modified":"2024-01-16T08:47:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T08:47:25","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/utusheffield.org.uk\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Erica Dunmow, UTU Chair of Trustees<\/strong> and the County Ecumenical Officer for South Yorkshire. She worships in an Anglican\/Methodist\/URC partnership church and lives out the challenges of following Jesus in multi-cultural Britain in Darnall.<\/p>\n

From 2004-10, Erica led the U.K. Urban Mission Development Project (co-funded by the Methodist Church and the Evangelical Coalition for Urban Mission), on cross-cultural urban ministerial and lay training and engaging with black-led and Pentecostal traditions. Erica has an MA in Theology and Ministry with St John\u2019s College, Durham.<\/p>\n\n\n

\"\"Ian Duffield, Director of Research,\u00a0<\/strong>is an Anglican priest who has served in five contrasting parishes, including thirty years in\u00a0the city of Sheffield.\u00a0His Doctorate in Ministry was\u00a0 undertaken with New York Theological Seminary through work at UTU. Ian has thirty years experience of post-graduate research supervision.<\/p>\n

Ian has written widely, including for John Paul the Preacher’s Press, Expository Times and for UTU publications.\u00a0Ian’s interests include systematic theology, the ethics of warfare, contextual\u00a0 theology, urban theology and\u00a0 urban ministry, as well as a social radical interpretations of\u00a0 scripture.<\/p>\n

Ian is married to Liz and they have two grown up sons, Andrew and Peter. \u00a0 He enjoys films and plays in the local church’s snooker team.<\/p>\n\n

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Christine Dutton, PhD supervisor,<\/strong> is a Methodist minister in the Chester and Delamere Circuit and has completed her PhD with UTU exploring Fresh Expressions of Church.<\/p>\n\n\n

John Vincent, PhD Supervisor,<\/strong> is a Methodist Minister and was President of the Conference in 1989-1990. Since 1970 he has worked in Sheffield in the Inner City Ecumenical Mission and \"\"the Urban Theology Unit, which he founded in 1969. John’s doctorate is in Discipleship in Mark (Basel University, 1960), after study with Oscar Cullmann and Karl Barth.<\/p>\n

John was Director of UTU until 1997, and continues as a part-time tutor. He co-chaired the Methodist Report, The Cities in 1997, and jointly with\u00a0 Chris Rowland edits the series British Liberation Theology. John is the author of over 30\u00a0 books, including Methodism Unbound: Christ and Methodism for the 21st Century (2016)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2004, he was made an\u00a0 honorary fellow of St Deiniol’s Library.\u00a0 In 2005, he received a Sheffield\u00a0 University Centenary Award, and in 2006-07 was chaplain to the Lord Mayor of\u00a0 Sheffield. John convenes the annual Summer School at UTU, held each July.<\/p>\n\n

\"\"Robin Pagan, PhD Supervisor,<\/strong> is a Minister in the URC with ministries in rural Northumberland and South Wales and Industrial Mission in London\u00a0but now retired\u00a0in Norfolk. Robin’s first degree was in fine arts and he still paints and plays the cello. Robin has thirty years experience in Post-graduate research supervision.<\/p>\n

Robin’s\u00a0doctorate was undertaken with the New York Theological Seminary through work at UTU, and he has been involved with the training of URC ministers.<\/p>\n

Robin is married to Gabriel who is a senior supervisor with Relate, and has 5 grown up children.\u00a0\u00a0 His favourite composer is Schubert and his theological interests include hermeneutical cycles in Luke-Acts.\u00a0 With another UTU colleague, Ian Duffield, he is engaged in a major research and writing project on Radical Voices in the Bible.<\/p>\n

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Dr Joseph Forde<\/strong> is Honorary Research Fellow in Historical Theology<\/strong> at UTU. After a career in NHS management spanning 26 years, he completed a PhD in Theology at the University of Manchester. He is Chair of Sheffield\u2019s Church Action on Poverty<\/em>. Based on Dr Forde’s dissertation, his newest work,\u00a0Before and Beyond the ‘Big Society’: John Milbank and the Church of England’s Approach to Welfare <\/em>is set to be published by James Clarke & Co. on 26 May 2022.<\/p>\n

Joe can be contacted via email at\u00a0joe.forde@tiscali.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Rev. Robert Hoch, PhD<\/strong> is Director of Theological Studies<\/strong>. <\/span> \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA) in 1995, Rob earned his PhD in Practical Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, in 2006. He served for thirteen years as a theological educator (homiletics and worship) at a Presbyterian seminary in the Midwest. In 2016, he accepted a call to serve as the pastor of an inner-city congregation in Baltimore, Maryland. In order to be closer to his spouse\u2019s family, Rob relocated to the UK in December 2020. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His publications include\u00a0<\/span>By the Rivers of Babylon: Blueprint for a Church in Exile<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(Fortress Press, 2013) and\u00a0<\/span>City Preaching: Sermons on Death and Resurrection in Baltimore<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(Parson\u2019s Press, 2018). He is a regular contributor to Working Preacher, an online lectionary-based commentary for preachers.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As an Alaska Native descendant (Athabascan), Rob stays connected with his indigenous experience through First Nations scholarship, participation in Native Alaskan organizations, arts, and friendships.\u00a0Beyond his vocational work, Rob\u2019s great passions in life include walking with his best friend in life, Rebecca, and being amazed by their four children, Gwendoline, Imogen, Gabriel, and Iris. He and his family live in the\u00a0Ribble\u00a0Valley of Lancashire, near Clitheroe.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"\"Jill Wagg, administrator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our office administrator, Jill Wagg, is in the office Monday mornings from 9.30 \u2013 1.30.<\/p>\n

Grounded in faith and family, she brings many years of office administration experience in the business, voluntary and education sectors.\u00a0 She is pleased to belong to the team, to help the trustees and members enable the UTU to thrive.<\/p>\n\n

Supervisors and Advisers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Revd Dr Ian K Duffield (Anglican)
\nRevd Dr Ian Pagan (URC)
\nRevd Christine Dutton (Methodist)
\nRevd Dr John Vincent (Methodist)
\nCanon Dr Alan Billings (Anglican)
\nRevd Dr Noel Irwin (Methodist)
\nRevd Dr Graham Adams (Congregational)
\nRevd Dr Christine Jones (Methodist)
\nRevd Dr Tony Crisp (Roman Catholic)
\nRevd Dr Caroline Wickens (Methodist)
\nRevd Dr Delroy Hall (Church of God of Prophecy)
\nDr Lesley Bailey (URC \/ Anglican)
\nRevd Dr Simon Topping (Methodist)
\nRevd Dr Paul Walker (Baptist)<\/p>\n

Membership form 2019-20<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Erica Dunmow, UTU Chair of Trustees and the County Ecumenical Officer for South Yorkshire. She worships in an Anglican\/Methodist\/URC partnership church and lives out the challenges of following Jesus in multi-cultural Britain in Darnall. From 2004-10, Erica led the U.K. Urban Mission Development Project (co-funded by the Methodist Church and\u2026<\/p>\n

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