St Philip's Centre

Study & Engagement in a Multi Faith Society

Andrew was involved in theological education for 25years- at the Tamilnadu Theological Seminary, in Madurai; as Principal of the West Midlands Course at Queen’s College Birmingham, and as Principal of the College of the Ascension at Selly Oak.
He has been in Leicester since 2000, and is now Director of the St Philip’s Centre for Study and Engagement in a Multi Faith Society, Bishop’s Adviser on Inter Faith Relations, and Canon Theologian.  He has recently been appointed Chaplain to The Queen.

In addition,

• He has been a member of the Network for Inter Faith Concerns (NIFCON) since its inception, is currently the Joint Chair of the     Hindu-Christian National Forum, and on the Churches’ Committee for Relations with Muslims in Europe.

• He is part of a range of local interfaith initiatives in Leicester, including the Council of Faiths, Faith Leaders Forum, and long standing dialogue groups between Christians and Muslims, Christians, Muslims and Jews, and Christians and Hindus respectively.

• He has been appointed an Honorary Lecturer of Birmingham University, from where he did his Doctorate in the area of Inter Religious Conversion, and where the Centre is developing an MA/M.Phil in Inter religious Relations from September 2006.  

• Author of many articles and eight books, his two most recent books, published by DLT, are Free to Be, and Celebrating Difference, Staying Faithful: how to live in a Multi Faith Society