Essays

2025: ‘Moods, Memes, Mood and Music: Understanding Ecclesiology’ in The Oxford Handbook of Music and Theology, eds. Steve Guthrie & Bennett Zon, Oxford University Press, 2025.

2021: ‘Mission as Reception’ in eds. Mark D. Chapman & Vladimir Latinovic, Changing the Church: Transformations of Christian Belief, Practice and Life, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2021.

2020: ‘The Anglicans’, The Oxford Handbook of Christmas, ed. Timothy Larsen, Oxford University Press, 2020.

2019: ‘Critiques of Megachurches’, ed., S. Hunt, Handbook of Megachurch Study, Brill, 2019.

2018: ‘Taking Sin Seriously: A Perspective from Theology and Public Life’, The Decline of Established Christianity in the Western World: Interpretations and Responses, ed. Paul Silas Peterson, Routledge, 2018.

2018: ‘Mood, Identity and Character in Anglican Congregations’, in Theologically-Engaged Anthropology, ed., Derrick Lemons, Oxford University Press, 2018.

2017: ‘Class, Ethnicity and Education: The Sociology of Anglicanism’, Oxford History of the Anglican Church in the Twentieth Century, ed. Jeremy Morris, Oxford University Press, 2017.

2017: ‘Restoration, Retrieval and Renewal: Recovering Healing Ministry’ in Theologies of Retrieval: Practices and Perspectives, Bloomsbury, ed., D. Sarisky, T&T Clark, 2017.

2017: ‘The Household of Faith: Anglican Obliquity and the Lambeth Conference’ in ed., Paul Avis, The Lambeth Conference and the Anglican Communion, Bloomsbury, 2017.

2015: ‘The Anatomy of Fundamentalism’ in Fundamentalisms: Threats and Ideologies in the Modern World, ed. James Dunn, I B Taurus, 2015.

2015: ‘Protestantism’, The Handbook of Christian Movements, ed. S. Hunt, Brill, 2015.

2015: ‘Christianity and Social Flourishing’, eds. J. Kidwell and S. Docherty), Theology and Economics: A Christian Vision for the Common Good, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015.

2013: ‘Jazz and Anglican Spirituality’ in Christian Congregational Music: Performance, Identity, Experience, eds. M. Ingalls, C. Landau & T. Wagner, Ashgate, 2013.

2012: ‘The Future of Religion’ (with Grace Davie) in the Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare, eds. M. Cobb, C. Puchalski & B. Rumbold, Oxford University Press, 2012.

2010: ‘Falling Far Short: Taking Sin Seriously’ in Reinhold Niebuhr and Contemporary Politics, eds. R. Harries & S. Platten, Oxford University Press, 2010.

2001: ‘Whose Time is it Anyway? Evangelicals, the Millennium and Millenarianism’ in ed. S. Hunt, Christian Millenarianism, Indiana University Press, 2001.