Mark Vasey-Saunders
Mark studied English Literature and History in York at the then University College of Ripon & York St John, and briefly worked for IFES in Ukraine before training for ordination at Cranmer Hall. He has worked in several different dioceses as a University Chaplain, Team Vicar & Pioneer Minister and more recently as Academic Tutor for St Hild College.
He completed his PhD from Durham on Evangelical responses to homosexuality in 2013. He oversees the formation of part-time and full-time Anglican ordinands at St Hild Sheffield, as well as coordinating the College’s work with Curates. He leads modules in Postgraduate study skills, Doctrine, Ethics, and Anglicanism. Mark has published the following books.
- The Scandal of Evangelicals and Homosexuality (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2015)
- Defusing the Sexuality Debate (SCM, London, 2023)
Leah Vasey-Saunders
Leah Studied Music (vocal performance) at the University of Huddersfield, and spent a year serving in a parish and then the Cathedral within the Diocese of St Alban’s before training for ordination at Cranmer Hall. She has worked in several different diocese as a parish priest, a canon precentor in a cathedral and currently serves as Vicar of Lancaster in the Diocese of Blackburn.
Leah chairs national charity On Fire Mission, and is passionate about the renewal of the church, particularly in the catholic tradition. In recent years Leah has chaired the city-wide project ‘Facing the Past’ which seeks to address Lancaster’s legacy of Transatlantic slavery.