Alan Billings
Alan Billings has been a parish priest in Leicester, Sheffield and Kendal and has taught religious studies at Lancaster University, Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford and Queen’s College, Birmingham. He was Deputy Leader of Sheffield City Council when David Blunkett was leader. He served on the Community Cohesion Panel of the Home Office following the summer disturbances in 2001. He is a member of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales and the England Committee of the Big Lottery Fund, and a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’. He is the author of Dying and Grieving: A guide to pastoral ministry; Secular Lives, Sacred Hearts: The role of the Church in a time of no religion; God and Community Cohesion: Help or hindrance? and Making God Possible all published by SPCK.
