Here are some of the things I’ve been and done in my life so far:
2018
Ordained a Catholic priest, to assist at Hinksey parish in Oxford
2017
Convocation Address at Hillsdale College, Michigan (April); ordained deacon in the Catholic Church (June), within the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
2016
co-editor of C.S. Lewis at Poets’ Corner
2015
delivered Commencement Address at Hillsdale College, Michigan, and received Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters
2013-present
Professor of Apologetics at HBU
2013
(November): unveiled a memorial to C.S. Lewis in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, on the fiftieth anniversary of his death
2013
(January): keynote lecturer, Annual Theological Conference, Biblical Institute of Finland
2012-present
Senior Research Fellow, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford
2011
winner of The Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies, given by the Mythopoeic Society
2010-present
Associate Member, Theology Faculty, University of Oxford
2010
co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis; author of The Narnia Code; guest lecturer, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
2009-2012
Chaplain of St Peter’s College, University of Oxford. Received into the Catholic Church on Michaelmas Day, 2012
2009
presenter of The Narnia Code, a one-hour documentary for BBC1 television; guest lectures at venues including the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; Holy Trinity, Brompton; Hong Kong Club, Hong Kong; John Jay Institute, Colorado
2008
author of Planet Narnia with year-long lecture tour in the U.K. and U.S.; guest lectures at universities including London, Edinburgh, and Chicago
2007-present
member of Steering Committee, The Wade Center, Wheaton College, IL
2007
co-editor of Heresies and How to Avoid Them
2004-2007
Chaplain of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge; Assistant Curate, Great Shelford
2001-2005
completed PhD in Divinity at University of St Andrews. Ordained deacon in Church of England in 2004 and priest in 2005
1999-2004
trained for ministry in Anglican Church at Ridley Hall, Cambridge Theological Federation
1999-2001
read Theology at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
1996-1999
lived at The Kilns, Lewis’s Oxford home, as resident warden and curator, looking after the property on behalf of its owner, The C.S. Lewis Foundation
1993-1999
officer of the Oxford University Lewis Society
1990-1999
Tutor and lecturer for Oxford University and for the Oxford programs of various American schools (e.g., Stanford University, CA; Williams College, MA; Wheaton College, IL) on freelance basis. Proof-reader and copy-editor for Lion Publishing, Heinemann, Bible Reading Fellowship.
1987-1990
read English at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford
1968
born in Cuckfield, Sussex, on Twelfth Night, the Feast of the Epiphany. Brought up in neighbouring Lindfield. Educated in local state schools till age nineteen