Will Rose-Moore

Speaking & Media Appearances

Media highlights:

  • ‘Masculinity’, All Things Considered (BBC Radio Wales, 13th July 2025)
  • ‘Menfluencers’, Beyond Belief (BBC Radio 4, 15th May 2023)

Other Speaking Highlights:

  • Retreat Leader ‘Journeying with Joseph’, The House of Retreat (Pleshey, 13th January 2027, forthcoming).
  • 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, 1st 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:

  • ‘(Dis)Embodying Theologies: Postures for body theologies in dialogue’ with Sarah Pritchard, Cambridge Theological Federation Research Day – Giving Voice to Theology: Context, Theological Method, and Impact (Ridley Hall, 11th May 2026, abstract under review).
  • ‘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, 19th October 2024).
  • ‘The Turning Itself: The Cross, Trauma Theology, and Masculinities’, Cambridge Theological Federation Research Day – Theology Responding to Suffering (Wesley House, 6th June 2024).
  • ‘The Body of Jesus as an Affront to Hypermasculinity’, Westcott House Postgraduate Seminar Series (Westcott House, 17th 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, 22nd April 2023).
  • ‘Situating Masculinities: A Response Paper’, Behold the Men: Conversations about men, masculinities and theologies (The Queen’s Foundation, 2nd 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, 17th June 2019).

Academic Lectures:

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