ACADEMIC STAFF

Revd Dr John M Campbell is Principal of Northern College and teaches introductory Bible courses and a course on science and belief.  He's been here for about five years now, previously he spent 22 years as a minister of the United Reformed Church in multicultural inner city settings in London and Birmingham.  he comes from Glasgow and rates the two years he spent as a biology lecturer in Nigeria as the most significant formative experience in his career.  His big passion is exploring how the Bible works for us in the never-ending task of learning for mission and ministry.

Revd Dr Lesley A Husselbee is a minister of the United Reformed Church and is Tutor in Church and Community Education at Northern College.  She is Director of the Church Related Community Work Pathway at Luther King House, and she teaches on the Urban Theology course and various community and ministry courss.  Lesley was ordained in 1983 and held pastorates at two churches: West Orchard URC, Coventry and Bourne End URC, Buckinghamshire before serving as Secretary for Training for the United Reformed Church.  During this time she served as Convenor of the URC's Children's Work Committee.  She has contributed worship material and Bible reading material for several publications, including Partners in Learning, and its successor, Roots.  Her most recent publication is the book Community and Ministry: An Introduction to Community Work in a Christian Context which she co-wrote with Paul Ballard and which was published by SPCK in October 2007.

Revd Dr John M Parry was originally ordained into the Church of Bangladesh but is now a minister of the United Reformed Church.  His field of teaching is Missiology and World Faiths, primarily Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism, thanks mainly to experience of work in Bangladesh and Southall in West London.  John has contributed to a number of publicationis and is about to publish through the Centre for Contemporary Christianity in Bangalore, a book entitled: The Word of God is Not Bound, a history of the encounter of Sikhs and Christians in India and the UK.

Administrative Staff

Mrs Christine S Thornborough - College Administrator