Revd Paul Roberts BA, PhD, PGCE
Director of Anglican Formation Tutor in Worship
Having taught at Trinity from 1988 to 1999, Paul Roberts returned to the college on 1 September 2010 to be Director of Anglican Formation and to teach Worship. He serves on the Senior Management Team of the college.
Paul began his parish ministry in Manchester and after his first period of teaching at Trinity was vicar of Cotham and St Paul's Clifton in Bristol for nine years. During this time, he served on the General Synod and the Liturgical Commission and was chair of Praxis. He then returned to his home country (Wales) for a short period, teaching at St Michael's College, Llandaff where he was responsible for non-residential training of ordinands and readers for the Church in Wales.
Paul was one of the early pioneers of Alternative Worship and has experience in setting up two fresh expressions of church in Bristol. His passion is the relationship between worship and mission and he has a growing international reputation as a key thinker and practitioner in how worship in the church can meet the demands of mission in the cultures of post-christendom.
He is married to Sharon, a primary head teacher at a school in Portishead, and they have two children, Jonathan and Caroline, who are studying at university. His interests include listening to contemporary jazz, walking, cycling and electronics.
Publications
‘The Additional Collects', in P. Bradshaw (ed.), Companion to Common Worship, volume 2. (SPCK/Alcuin Club, 2006).
His work with Resonance (the 1990s precursor to Foundation, the church he helped plant in Bristol) is told in Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger, Emerging Churches: creating Christian community in Postmodern cultures (Baker Academic, 2005).
Alternative Worship in the Church of England (Grove Books, 1999).
Something Understood: a companion to 'Celebrating Common Prayer' (Hodder and Stoughton, 1993) (co-edited with Kenneth Stevenson and David Stancliffe).
Renewing Daily Prayer (Grove Books, 1992) (with Christopher Cocksworth).