Kevin Ellis

• PhD
• Vicar at The University of Manchester

This sequential, community autoethnography draws upon the stories told by seven academics and ‘becoming’ academics related to their experience of pilgrimage, either secular or religious. The autoethnographic contributions were written sequentially, with authors having sight of the autoethnographies as they were written. We draw on literature relate...

Within this study, we present a dialogic autoethnography which focuses on the experiences of a Welsh academic and an English priest living and serving a community in Wales, one of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom. Wales is perceived as one of the modern Celtic nations, and under the Government of Wales Act, (1998), formed its own parli...

Mae hyn yn fy stori. Dw i'n symud ym Mae Treaddur o Birmingham yn mis Chwefror 2014. This is essentially my story. I moved to Bae Trearddur on the edge of Anglesey from Bartley Green in Birmingham. Nothing could have prepared me in many ways for the culture shock that I was about and continue to experience. I am an Anglican priest. I have been thro...

Drawing on his experience of three different pastoral contexts, Kevin Ellis seeks to put the questions of how the Churches in England interact with working class culture, and indeed in what ways do the those who consider themselves to be working class interact with the Church, back on the agenda. The author suggests that one of the gifts that the C...

In this paper, Kevin Ellis argues that theology and theological education should be at the heart of the ministry of the parish priest. He does so by drawing on some of his experiences in Matson, Gloucester and offering some reflections upon what happened. The paper concludes with some comments about the relationship between the Church and the Acade...