Martyn Percy is a writer, theologian and academic. He has held numerous roles in public life and writes for Prospect magazine, the Times and the Guardian. He lives in Aberdeen and is licensed to the Scottish Episcopal Church. He serves as the Canon Theologian to the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, teaches at the University of Bern and University of Saint Joseph (Macao) and serves as Honorary Provost-Theologian for the Hong Kong Anglican Province.

The Rt Revd Dr Steven Croft became Bishop of Oxford in 2016 and was previously the Bishop of Sheffield.  He has been a member of the House of Lords since 2013, a member of the Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence until 2020, a member of the Board of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation until 2021 and appointed to the Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee in 2021. 

Co-author of Emmaus: the way of faith (1996-2003), and one of four lead authors of the Pilgrim resource to help adults explore faith. He is author of a number of books including Ministry in Three Dimensions (1999 and 2008), The Gift of Leadership: According to the Scriptures (2016) and Rooted and Grounded, faith formation and the Christian Tradition (2019).  His most recent book is Comfortable Words: a call to restoration: Reflections on Isaiah 40–55 (March 2021) Bishop Steven’s blog is at https://blogs.oxford.anglican.org

STEPHEN BURNS is Research Fellow in Public and Contextual Theology in United Theological College.