Speaking & Media Appearances

Media:

• ‘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:

• 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:

• ‘Theological Knowing and Gender: Through the lens of masculinities’, Gender and Christian Theology [MPhil Exercise], Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge (5th February 2026, forthcoming).

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

• ‘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).

Sermons:

Click here for a list of some of Will’s sermons available online, either as text or videos.