“Enabling people to hear the biblical texts in their own contexts so that we can hear Christ speak through them into our own lives and the life of the church today is a privilege.”

Andrew joined the staff in 2005 and is the tutor for admissions. He teaches Biblical Studies.

After studying theology in Oxford, he taught religious education in secondary schools, during which time he pursued postgraduate studies in education in London. He trained for ministry in the Church of England in Nottingham, during which he pursued doctoral studies now published as Chaos and the Son of Man: The Hebrew Chaoskampf Tradition in the Period 515 BCE to 200 CE (London/New York: T&T Clark, 2006). After this he worked in parish ministry in the diocese of Rochester.

He has contributed articles in the areas of new testament and intertestamental studies to collections of essays and to the forthcoming Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, most recently ‘From Wild Men to Wise and Wicked Women: An Investigation into Male Heterosexuality in Second Temple Interpretations of the Ladies Wisdom and Folly’ in A Question of Sex?, ed. Deborah W. Rooke, (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2007). His research interests include apocalyptic, eschatology, and the gospel of Matthew.

Andy lives in Rochester, is married to Carol and they have two sons.