Roy Clements

For the American film director, see Roy Clements (director).

Roy Clements (born 1946 in London) is a British author and former Christian minister. He was a leading figure within Britain's Evangelical Christian movement for more than two decades until he resigned from his pastoral ministry in 1999, having revealed that he is gay.[1] [2] [3] [4]

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Biography

Roy Clements grew up in the East End of London and earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics, before working for UCCF (University Colleges Christian Fellowship) in Nairobi and serving as pastor of Nairobi Baptist Church in Kenya.[5] He returned to the UK in 1979 when he became pastor of Eden Baptist Church, Cambridge, where he developed a highly successful ministry to students.[6] Over a period of some twenty years, he gained a reputation within the international Christian movement as an accomplished preacher and teacher.[5] Until 1999 he served on the boards of a number of leading evangelical organisations, including the management council of the Evangelical Alliance, which represents more than a million British Christians across 30 denominations.[1] His ministry within British evangelicalism ended in 1999 after he left his wife and began a relationship with another man. Since then, Clements suggests he has become a significant new voice within the British gay Christian movement.

List of works

Theology books and biblical commentaries

Jubilee Centre papers

Clements published a number of papers with Cambridge Papers, a non-profit quarterly publication of the Jubilee Centre, a Cambridge-based centre for contemporary theological reflection which he helped to found. These papers include: "Can Tolerance become the Enemy of Christian Freedom?" (an examination of pluralism in two papers); "Officiously to Keep Alive" (a two-part examination of euthanasia); "Demons and the Mind" (a two-part study of mental illness in the Bible); and "Expository Preaching in a Postmodern World".[7]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Benton, John (1999-11). "Roy Clements Walks Out". Evangelicals Now. http://www.e-n.org.uk/2904-Roy-Clements-walks-out.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-28. 
  2. ^ Benton, John (1999-11). "The Commentary - Roy Clements". Evangelicals Now. http://www.e-n.org.uk/2903-The-Commentary.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-28. 
  3. ^ Benfold, Gary (1999-11). "When a good man falls". Evangelicals Now. http://www.e-n.org.uk/2905-When-a-good-man-falls.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-28. 
  4. ^ Combe, Victoria (1999-09-30). "Preacher quits over his relationship with male worshipper". Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/09/30/nbap30.html. Retrieved 2008-08-28. 
  5. ^ a b "The Roy Clements Story". Christian Herald, quoted by John Mark Ministries. http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/8075.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-28. 
  6. ^ Beynon, Graham. "History Of Eden Baptist Church". Eden Baptist Church Website. http://www.eden-cambridge.org/history/index.shtml. Retrieved 2007-08-28. "This approach, along with his exceptional preaching gifts, continued to grow the church, and particularly the involvement with the university, so that today, over 200 students regularly attend Eden" 
  7. ^ "Publication List". Roy Clements' web site. http://www.royclements.co.uk/information02.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-28. 

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