Tim Grass

I am a historian, specializing in modern British religious history. Although a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, I came bottom of the class in history at school, and never took any public examinations in the subject. That gives me a certain sympathy with my students and readers, as I try to subvert their expectations that history will be boring!

My interests include the Brethren movement (in Britain, Ireland and Spain especially), the Catholic Apostolic Church, the Strict Baptists, and Evangelicalism more generally, especially as it has engaged with or encountered the Eastern Churches. My main writing projects at present (August 2019) include a study of the impact of the Protestant Reformation on the Isle of Man, where I live, and an illustrated book on the places of worship built or used by the Brethren movement in Britain and Ireland. I also work as assistant editor for the Ecclesiastical History Society, which produces the prestigious annual series 'Studies in Church History', and facilitator for the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative, an international dialogue process between Evangelicals and Orthodox.