We are delighted to have Bishop Pontein with us as a Visiting Fellow from 15 April to 5 June.The Right Revd Pontien Ribakare is currently Bishop of the Diocese of Rutana in Burundi, Central-East Africa. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of the Bujumbura Christian University (BCU’s governing body) as well as Chairman of the General Assembly of the Burundi Mission Alliance. He is also a member of the Anglican Consultative Council, within the Anglican Communion.

It is with great sadness that we learnt over the weekend of the death of Paul Burbridge after a short illness.  Paul was co-founder of Riding Lights Theatre Company in the 1970s which was strategically significant in opening the arts as a place for Christian creative thinking, mission and ministry. 

Downing Street announced today that the Revd Canon Smitha Prasadam, currently Chaplain of St Albans, Copenhagen, and member of College Council, will take up the role of Bishop of Huddersfield.

Are religious belief and science necessarily mutually exclusive?

It is with great sadness that the College heard of the death of Professor Tom McLeish. Tom was for many years a great friend to the College and long time co-investigator on our Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science (ECLAS) project. Tom founded the project with the Principal and contributed wisdom, boundless energy and a passion which celebrated both science and Christian faith.

The Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science project at St John’s has been awarded a five-year, £6.2million grant to support bishops and senior Christian leaders worldwide to engage with science.

The College is now in the process of recruiting for a new Principal.

The College is sad to hear the news of the death of Rev Professor Anthony Thiselton FBA who was Principal of St John’s from 1988 to 1992.

Rob Ives, a current St John’s PhD student, has been selected as a finalist in the prestigious STEM for BRITAIN competition where he will present his scientific research in the field of chemistry in Parliament.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Jolyon Mitchell will be joining us on 31 January as a Visiting Fellow in Residence.

The College was delighted to hear that Nigel Robson was honoured by an MBE in this year’s New Year’s Honours. 

The College was saddened to hear of the death in December of Professor Ann Loades CBE who was an Honorary Professorial Fellow at St Chad’s and Professor Emerita of Divinity here at the University.