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Graham Cray

Graham Cray is Archbishops’ Missioner and Team Leader of Fresh Expressions.

Graham Cray was appointed Archbishops’ Missioner and Leader of the Fresh Expressions team on 1st May 2009.  He is married to Jackie and they have two daughters, Catherine and Sarah.

He was consecrated in 2001 and became the Bishop of Maidstone and the Bishop for Mission in the Diocese of Canterbury where he remained for eight years.

Before becoming a bishop he was principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge, a Church of England theological college, after fourteen years as vicar of St Michael-le-Belfrey, York, where he worked with and then succeeded the late Canon David Watson.

His special concerns are the engagement of the Gospel with contemporary culture, youth ministry and the theology of renewal.  He has been chairman of the Greenbelt Festival and is currently chairman of the Soul Survivor Trust.  He chaired the working party which wrote the Mission-shaped Church report on church planting and fresh expressions of church.

Recent publications include:

  • Postmodern Culture and Youth Discipleship, Grove Pastoral Series 76, 1998;
  • The Eucharist and the Postmodern World in Pete Ward (ed.), Mass Culture, BRF, 1999;
  • The Toronto Experience In A Consumer Society in Bartholemew & Moritz (ed.), Christ and Consumerism, Paternoster, 2000;
  • A Theology of the Kingdom in Samuel & Sugden (ed.), Mission As Transformation, Regnum, 1999 (1988 journal article republished in a book);
  • Wholy Holy in Jeremy Begbie (ed.), Beholding the Glory: Incarnation Through the Arts, DLT, 2000;
  • Graham Cray & Paul Simmonds, Being Culturally Relevant, Administry, 2000;
  • Graham Cray, Youth Congregations and the Emerging Church, Grove Evangelism Series 57, 2002;
  • Obeying the Truth in a Network Society in Garnder, Wright & Green (ed.) Fanning the Flame, Zondervan, 2003;
  • Mission-shaped Church, Church House Press, 2004;
  • Graham Cray, Bob Mayo, Sylvie Collins & Sara Savage, Making Sense of Generation Y, Church House Publishing, 2006;
  • The Future of the Parish System, Church House Publishing, 2006;
  • Tim Sudworth with Graham Cray & Chris Russell, Mission-shaped Youth, Church House Publishing, 2007;
  • contribution to The Heart of Faith, The Lutterworth Press, 2008;
  • contribution to Alistair Burt MP, Andy Reed MP, Caroline Spelman MP, Gary Streeter MP & Steve Webb MP, Faith in the Future, 2008.