OUR PATRON

David Sheppard captained the England cricket team in 1954, before rising through the ranks of the Church of England to serve as Bishop of Liverpool from 1975 to 1997. He chaired the church's Board for Social Responsibility from 1991 to 1996, and his most celebrated book is Bias to the Poor (Hodder & Stoughton).

In his openness to other Christian traditions, his commitment to the social and political implications of the gospel and his stand as someone who criticises what he loves and loves what he criticises, Lord Sheppard embodies what Third Way aspires to be.

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THE STAFF

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Simon Jones (publishing editor) has an academic background in culture and critical theory, and worked in commercial publishing before joining Third Way. He sits on the music committee of the Greenbelt arts festival and has written for Scripture Union and Christian Lifestyle � but is not the author of Why Bother with Church?, did not star as Arthur Dent in The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy and has never played bass with The Verve.

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THE TRUSTEES

Corinne Brown (trustee since 2000) marketed Inter-Varsity Press from 1994 to 1998. Before finding her niche in publishing she taught French and Spanish. She currently wonders if she will ever go travelling again as she raises three lusty young children.

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Roy McCloughry (trustee since 2000, and chair) is the director of Kingdom Trust and a consultant on applied social ethics. He sits on the board of Lion Publishing plc, and is the author of many books, including the bestselling Men and Masculinity (Hodder & Stoughton). He has long been a fixture in Third Way, as an associate editor from 1989 to 1995, a columnist from 1993 to 1995 and the interviewer of everyone from David�Jenkins to Tony�Blair.

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Andrew Rumsey (trustee since 1997, and vice-chair) is vicar of Christ Church, Gipsy Hill in south London. Before training at Ridley Hall, he worked in arts marketing and for the innovative Cambridge mission project the Romsey Mill. He is an occasional columnist and songwriter, and his first volume of poems, Homing In, was published by Paternoster Press in 1998.

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Andy Thornton (trustee since 2001) is a man of many parts. He has worked as a professional songwriter and performer with two albums of acoustic rock to his name, as a youth adviser for the health board in Glasgow (where he co-founded the �alternative congregation� the Late Late Service in 1990) and as general manager of Greenbelt Festivals.

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THE ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Ann Holt is the director of Care for Education and an adviser to the Secretary of State for Education & Employment. She sits on the councils of the Evangelical Alliance and the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity and is a governor of London Bible College.

Jo Ind is a journalist and writer concerned with making connections between spirituality and the body. Her first book was Fat is a Spiritual Issue (Mowbray), and two more are in the pipeline: one on sexuality and another on infertility, miscarriage and still birth. She also writes for the Birmingham Post and the Independent.

Ian Linden was director of the Catholic Institute for International Relations from 1986 to 2001. He is an associate professor at the School of Oriental & African Studies in London, and author of a number of books on Christianity and politics in the developing world.

Christine Morgan has worked in BBC religious broadcasting since 1987. Among many other programmes, mainly in current affairs, she produced Sunday for Radio 4 from 1988 to 1994 and The Choice from 1999 to 2000. She was also series producer of Heart of the Matter on BBC1.

Elaine Storkey is president of Tearfund. She has lectured in sociology, philosophy and theology variously for the Open University and at Birkbeck College and Stirling, Oxford and London Universities, and currently supervises doctoral candidates in theology at King�s College London. From 1992 to 1998, she was executive director of the [London] Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Her many books include the classic What�s Right with Feminism, first published by Third Way/SPCK.

Phil Wall is the director of the leadership development consultancy Signify (�beyond success to significance�) and founder of the international Aids charity HopeHIV. He led the Salvation Army�s mission team for 10 years, after a career in the Metropolitan Police as a riot squad officer.

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THE SECTION EDITORS

Nik Ansell (Commentary) is assistant professor of theology at the King's University College, Edmonton in Canada.

Jenny Taylor (Faith in Practice) is a freelance writer, researcher and media consultant {and a member of the management council of The Gospel and Our Culture}. She was co-author with Lesslie Newbigin and Lamin Sanneh of Faith and Power: Christianity and Islam in Secular Britain (SPCK), and has recently completed a doctorate in the sociology of religion at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Nick Thorpe (features) is a freelance travel and feature writer working for the Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Independent, the Scotsman and the BBC World Service. He was shortlisted for the 2001 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.

Huw Spanner (High Profile) is a freelance writer and editor who contributes occasional columns to the Independent and thinks for the day on BBC Radio 4. He edited Third Way from 1993 to 1997 and from 2001 to 2002, and has commissioned over 100 interviews for the magazine.

Stephen Tomkins (reviews) writes educational material for the Christian History Institute in Pennsylvania. His first two books, My Ministry Manual, a work of satire from SPCK, and Plucked from the Burning, a life of John Wesley from Lion, are coming soon. He is a contributing editor of ship-of-fools.com and reviews editor also of fish.co.uk.