Ending Abusive Theology – online panel
Wednesday August 5th, 6-7pm
Online Panel Discussion
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Prof Elaine Graham will chair this panel and be joined by the author Adrian Thatcher, as well as panelists Andrew Graystone and Susannah Cornwall.
Panelists:
Adrian Thatcher became the first professor at Plymouth Marjon University in 1995 and joined the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter in 2004. He “retired” in 2011 and devoted much of his spare time to writing and until recently editing Modern Believing. He is the author or editor of 20 books, including Vile Bodies: The Body in Christian Teaching, Faith and Practice (SCM 2023), and Gender and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press) which won the 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title award.
Susannah Cornwall is Professor of Constructive Theologies at the University of Exeter, and Director of EXCEPT (Exeter Centre for Ethics and Practical Theology). She is President of the Society for the Study of Theology (2026-28). Her most recent books are Structural Sin and the Death of Institutions (Routledge, 2026), and Constructive Theology and Gender Variance: Transformative Creatures (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Andrew Graystone‘s career has been divided between the church and the media. In 2017 he uncovered the story of serial abuser John Smyth QC, and the decades-long cover-up within the Church of England. Since then Andrew has been a prominent advocate for victims and survivors of abuse in the church. His latest book Bleeding for Jesus: John Smyth and the Cult of Iwerne Camps was published by Darton, Longman and Todd in 2025. The film See No Evil which he made with Passion Pictures for Channel Four won the 2026 BAFTA for best Factual Series. Andrew has a PhD from Durham University for his work on the theology of touch in digital culture.