Gerry Lynch the Rector of five rural parishes just outside Devizes, in a lovely part of Wiltshire between Salisbury Plain and the westernmost ridges of the North Wessex Downs.
He has a professional background in communications, party politics, and central government (more on LinkedIn). He is a graduate of the Queen’s University of Belfast (in politics) and the University of Oxford (in theology), and trained for ordination at St Stephen’s House.
He is also a doctoral student in ecclesiastical history at the University of Oxford – his university post-graduate researcher page is here – researching how the rise of African Anglicanism changed the Anglican Communion by exploring the Lambeth Conferences of 1988 and 1998. His Master’s research was into the role of the Church of England in the international campaign against apartheid in the late 1980s, relations between the Church of England and the Thatcher government, and Anglican-state relations in Ian Smith’s Rhodesia and the early years of independent Zimbabwe.
He does a little freelance writing on the side, having been published in Prospect, The Tablet, Unherd, the Church Times, The Critic, the Belfast Telegraph, and the News Letter. He is also a blogger of long-standing on Slugger OToole.
