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Dr David Goodbourn

President, Luther King House Educational Trust


	Office No: 4 Luther King House Brighton Grove
	Manchester
	M14 5JP

+44 (0) 161 249 2533

Brief Introduction

I'm president of Luther King House and director of the LKH Open College. I'm also programme leader for LKH's delivery of the Foundation Degree in Mission and Ministry. My main academic area is adult religious education, though I also have a strong interest in ecumenism; I used to work for the ecumenical movement. I'm married to Lynn, have two grown-up children (Jonathan and Rebecca), come originally from East Kent but have spent most of my life rotating around London, Manchester and Edinburgh.

Publishing

Editor and contributor to British Journal of Theological Education 1986-1995

Member of panel of reference, Journal of Adult Theological Education 2003-present

Participant in World Council of Churches process on holistic education, leading to 2005 publication of Holistic Education Resource Book (edited Schreiner P et al)Waxman: Munster, to which I contributed a chapter on ‘Holistic Education: Sign Posts and Warnings.’

International links

Member and Rapporteur, World Council of Churches Commission on Education and Ecumenical Formation 1999-present. The Commission focuses on contextual theology, and on the interplay between contexts in the global South and theological education.

Member, World Council of Churches Central Committee and Vice-Moderator of that Committee’s Sub-Committee on Programmes – the committee which oversees development and educational programmes across the world.

Chair, Feed the Minds – an agency that focuses on literacy as a means of capacity building in the global South.

Patron, Friends of the Church in China, 1999-

Moderator, international seminar for theological educators on ecumenical formation, forming part of World Council of Churches Assembly in Brazil, 2006

Other relevant professional engagements

Chair, Association of Centres of Adult Theological Education 1994-97

President, Ecumenical Association for Adult Education in Europe 1997-99