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We are pleased to announce that Cranmer Hall has been awarded a major grant from the Church of England’s Innovation Fund to develop a new programme to train leaders of new worshipping communities, in partnership with the Diocese of Durham and the Diocese of Newcastle. The Foundations Programme will offer high-quality theological training, using expert teachers and practitioners and aims […]

Cranmer Hall is delighted to announce the appointment of the Revd Dr Tim Carter as Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Preaching. Tim will join the tutorial team at Cranmer Hall, teaching and supervising New Testament, Preaching, and biblical languages. He will also be involved in the mentoring and formation of those preparing for various forms of ministry. Tim is currently […]

The ‘Periodic External Review’ (PER) is part of the Church of England’s quality assurance for its ministerial training institutions, whereby it assesses the institution’s fitness for purpose in preparing candidates for ordained and licensed ministry and makes recommendations for the enhancement of its life and work. We are delighted to report that Cranmer Hall was awarded the highest outcome of […]

Cranmer Hall, St John’s College is delighted to announce it has been selected to be a Growing Faith Learning Hub in partnership with the Growing Faith Foundation. As such, we hope to become a dedicated research and training centre with the focus of enabling a radical shift in our churches so that our children and teenagers are invited and empowered […]

Cranmer Hall, St John’s College is delighted to announce that it has received a grant of £60k from the Sir Halley-Stewart Trust to develop the work of the Centre for Church Planting Theology and Research. The funding will enable the Centre’s Director Revd Dr Will Foulger over the next two years to undertake pioneering research into theology and church planting […]

  Cranmer Hall is pleased to announce that Jamie Daniels has been appointed as Leadership Training and Access Officer at Cranmer Hall within St John’s College Durham.  This new role, made possible by a generous long-term grant from the Relay Trust, will enable Cranmer Hall to scale up its partnerships with local churches and offer training resources which enable local […]

Sign up for our upcoming Church Planting webinar with revd Jack Shepherd. We will be exploring the theological-empirical basis of resource churches in the CofE. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/church-planting-webinar-a-theology-of-resource-churches-tickets-255089739277

Cranmer Hall publishes a journal, Theology and Ministry, and the latest issue is out today! It is an annual publication, peer reviewed, and open access.   This issue contains excellent articles on Bonhoeffer’s preaching, what British evangelicals actually believe, forgiveness, and more besides. There is also a review article and a couple of book reviews, on topics as diverse and […]

We are delighted to announce that Lizzie Hare is to be the new Lecturer in Old Testament at Cranmer Hall within St John’s College, Durham. Lizzie has degrees from Durham and Cambridge and her PhD at King’s College, London is on a theology of loneliness in the Hebrew Bible. She has lived and worked in Sweden and China and currently […]