Nick has been an Anglican minister for 41 years, during which time he has served in six parishes of very different social make-up. For eight years he was Director of Ministry, Formation and Practical Theology at St John’s College, Nottingham and has also spent time overseeing the training and support of curates for Birmingham diocese. In 2022, he retired from stipendiary parish ministry, but continues with freelance work, supporting churches in their missional development with Partnership for Missional Church, teaching, researching, writing and offering spiritual accompaniment to clergy. In 2021, he received his doctorate from Birmingham University for his thesis, Exploring Communal Maturity: A Theological and Ethnographic Study of a Christian Congregation. He has published several pieces around the practice of ministry and mission. He is married to Anne and they have two children, Emma and Nathan. He has been part of ICEF (previously IRC) since 2014.