The Revd Paul Burden

Bio:

The Revd Paul Burden is Dean of Ministry. He has had 22 years of experience in parish ministry and specialises in preaching, human identity, mission and evangelism, leadership and worship.

Paul initially studied mechanical and fluid engineering through a Cambridge University MA and worked as a Design Engineer in the design and construction of civil nuclear power stations.

He studied at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, taking the Oxford University MA in Theology before ordination in 1992. He has been a Training Incumbent, Archdeaconry Warden of Readers, Vocations Adviser and involved in other aspects of training and ministry support for lay and ordained ministries, including being part of a diocesan working group on clergy wellbeing. He completed an MTh in Preaching through the College of Preachers and the University of Wales in 2005.

As a theological educator, he has a keen desire to see the practical skills of ministry rooted in theology and reflective practice with a clear missional perspective.

He has been at Sarum College for more than 10 years involved in the programmes to train women and men for licensed lay and ordained ministries. When teaching commitments allow, he leads and preaches in a number of different churches in two dioceses around where he lives in Somerset and is a member of his local church.