Although I have enjoyed a quiet faith since my early teens I never intended to get ordained into the Church of England: as a secondary school teacher in Cambridge I felt that my gifts were best suited to teaching algebra and quadratic equations.
But when the Bible Club that I ran during lunch break, was closed down by my Teachers’ Union because of industrial action in the late 1980s, I realised that I far preferred teaching the Bible to mathematics. So I tentatively pushed the door of theological training in the Church of England and was somewhat surprised to be accepted for training at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford.
