Speaking & Media Appearances

Media highlights:

‘Why do we wear pink on Gaudete Sunday?’ (Church of England, 14th December 2025)
‘Masculinity’, All Things Considered (BBC Radio Wales, 13th July 2025).
‘Boys Will Be Boys? Being a man before God in the 21st century’ (St Paul’s Cathedral Video Recording and Podcast, 8th May 2025).
‘What is Palm Sunday?’ (Church of England, 13th April 2025)
‘Menfluencers’, Beyond Belief (BBC Radio 4, 15th May 2023).
Young, Welsh and Pretty Religious (BBC One and BBC Wales, 2019).

Other Speaking Highlights:

Retreat Leader ‘Journeying with Joseph’, The House of Retreat (Pleshey, 13th January 2027, forthcoming).

‘Boys Will Be Boys? Exploring Masculinity in the Bible and Christian Faith’, The 2026 Reynolds Lecture, St John’s Church (Epping, 25th March 2026, forthcoming)

Speaker Event ‘Boys will be boys? Being a man before God in the 21st century‘, St Paul’s Cathedral (London, 4th May 2025).
Speaker at ‘Behold the Men Launch – Continuing the Conversation’, The Queen’s Foundation (Birmingham, 29th March 2025) [delivered by video recording].
Author Event at St John the Baptist Church (Cardiff, 17th April 2023).
Speaker at Fitzalan High School (Cardiff, 17th April 2023).
Speaker at ‘Remaking Anglican Identities: Celebrating Westcott House Book Launches’, Westcott House and SCM Press (Cambridge, 1^st March 2023).
Speaker at ‘Creating a Safe Working Environment’, IME2 Seminar for East Anglian Dioceses (15th October 2022).
Speaker at Corrymeela’s ‘Seed of Sequoia: A practical faith guide to communities responding to domestic and sexual violence’ launch event (25th November 2021).
Headline Speaker at Pride Cymru’s Faith Tent (Cardiff, 24th August 2019).
Panellist for LGBT+ Interfaith Panel, Cardiff University (Cardiff, 21st March 2019).

Conference Papers:

‘Thy Kendom Come? Beginnings, Bodies, and Patriarchy in Barbie’, Society for the Study of Theology Conference – Flesh and Blood Theologies (Warwick University, 9th April 2025).

‘Gendering Eucharistic Violence, Trauma, and Victim: A Keynote Postgraduate Response’, Society for the Study of Theology Conference – Flesh and Blood Theologies (Warwick University, 7th April 2025).

‘Beyond (Racialised) Binaries: Bisexualities, Masculinities, and Whiteness When Doing Theology’, Uncovering Identity in the Church of England (The Queen’s Foundation, 1st-2nd November 2024) [delivered by video recording].

‘Jesus the Man: Trauma and Myths of Masculinity’, Jesus and Trauma Colloquium (Westminster College, Cambridge, 19th October 2024).

‘The Turning Itself: The Cross, Trauma Theology, and Masculinities’, Theology Responding to Suffering (Cambridge Theological Federation, 6th June 2024).

‘The Body of Jesus as an Affront to Hypermasculinity’, Westcott House Postgraduate Seminar Series (Westcott House, Cambridge, 17^th Nov 2023).

‘Wanting a Macho Jesus: A Crisis of Masculinity and the Cross’, Abusing God: Reading the Bible in the #MeToo Age – Hypermasculinity colloquium (University of Manchester, 22^nd April 2023).

‘Situating Masculinities: A Response Paper’, Behold the Men: Conversations about men, masculinities and theologies (The Queen’s Foundation, 2^nd Oct 2021).

‘Militance, Motherhood, and Masculinisation: How is gender constructed in Judges 4 & 5?’, Inaugural Symposium of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence (Bristol, 17^th June 2019).

Academic Lectures:

‘Trauma Theologies and Liturgies’, Theology and Trauma [Common Awards], Westcott House and Cambridge Theological Federation (25th February 2026).

‘Introduction to Trauma Theology’, Theology and Trauma [Common Awards], Westcott House and Cambridge Theological Federation (11th February 2026).

‘What is Trauma?’, Theology and Trauma [Common Awards], Westcott House and Cambridge Theological Federation (28th January 2026).

‘Queerness and Theology: What’s New?’, Methods in Modern Theology [Common Awards], Ridley Hall and Cambridge Theological Federation (3rd April 2025).

‘Why Masculinities Matter in Theology and Biblical Studies’, The Sacred and the Sexual: Sex, Gender and the Bible [MA Module], The University of Sheffield (17th October 2024).

‘Trauma Theology and the Church’, short course with Karen O’Donnell, Westcott House (28th September 2024).

‘Knowledge, Gender and Theology: Through the lens of masculinities’, Gender and Christian Theology [MPhil Exercise], Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge (14th February 2024).

‘Trauma Theologies’ with Karen O’Donnell, Theology and Trauma [Common Awards], Westcott House and Cambridge Theological Federation (5th February 2024).

‘An Introduction to Masculinities and the Hebrew Bible’ with Charlotte Thomas, Narrative Readings of Gender in the Bible [Undergraduate Module], Cliff College (7^th December 2023).

‘Bible, Theology, and Masculinities: Boys Will Be Boys, and Other Myths’, Westminster College (2nd February 2023).

‘Reading the Bible: Gender and Masculinities’, Gender and Theology [Undergraduate Module], The Queen’s Foundation (1st February 2023).

‘Exploring Toxic and Non-Toxic Masculinities in the Bible and Christian Living’, Erotic Desires: Gender, Sexuality and Spirituality [MA module], Sarum College (22nd June 2022).

‘Confronting Violence and the Bible’ with Charlotte Thomas, Exploring Theology: Living with the Bible, Sarum College (10th May 2022).

some recent Sermons:

Will has preached across the country, including in Cambridge, Cardiff, Essex, Manchester, Somerset, and beyond! Below are just a sample of Will’s sermons available online. Will now regularly preaches at St John the Baptist, Loughton where he serves as Assistant Curate, but he still enjoys preaching elsewhere occasionally. If you would like to invite Will to preach, please get in touch and he will gladly reply.

Presenting Christ, Presenting Ourselves (St German’s, Cardiff, 1st February 2026).

Blue Christmas: A Light in the Darkness (St John’s Church, Loughton, 23rd December 2025).

Wake Up for Advent (St John’s Church, Loughton, 30th November 2025).

Mary and the Little Miracles (St John’s Church, Loughton, 19th January 2025).