Current members of the writing group meet in Cambridge every month, discussing and redrafting each Paper several times before publication. Members of the group each contribute as individuals, and not as representatives of any church or organisation. Occasionally, a guest author is invited to write a Paper.
Dr Denis Alexander is Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion and Fellow of St. Edmund's College. He was previously at the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories in London (now Cancer Research UK), and prior to that spent 15 years developing university departments and laboratories overseas, latterly as Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Dr Alexander is the author of the book Rebuilding the Matrix - Science and Faith in the 21st Century (2001) and has published numerous papers and reviews. He is the editor of the journal Science & Christian Belief, serves on the committee of Christians in Science and lectures widely on the subject of science and faith.
Professor John Coffey is the Professor of Early Modern History at Leicester University. His research focuses on religion, politics and ideas in early modern Britain and America. In particular, he has worked on aspects of Puritanism, the English Revolution, and the development of ideas of toleration. He is the author of Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford (1997), Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558-1689 (2000), and John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century England (Boydell and Brewer, 2006). He trained as an historian at Cambridge University.
Caroline Eade studied theology at Cambridge University before working at the Evangelical Alliance as an assistant in its social action projects. She went on to qualify as a solicitor and now works in a commercial law firm in Cambridge, specialising in charity law.
Dr Paul Mills is an international economist specialising in finance. He worked as a researcher at the Jubilee Centre between graduating from Cambridge University and returning there for his PhD.
Professor Julian Rivers is Professor of Jurisprudence at Bristol University. His research interests lie mainly in the area of legal and constitutional theory, with a particular interest in the interplay between law and religion. He was awarded a doctorate in 2004 on the basis of his published work and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Ecclesiastical Law Journal. He studied law at the Universities of Cambridge and Göttingen.
Peter Sanlon holds degrees in theology from Oxford and Cambridge University. He is currently writing a doctoral thesis on Augustine's expository preaching.
Dr Michael Schluter CBE is founder of the Jubilee Centre and is developing the International Jubilee Network. He is also chairman of the Keep Sunday Special Campaign and works closely with the Relationships Foundation. He has a PhD in agricultural economics from Cornell University and worked in East Africa for six years as a consultant for the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute. Dr Schluter co-authored The R Factor (1993), The R Option (2003) and The Relational Manager (2009) and contributed to Relational Justice (1994), Building a Relational Society: New priorities for public policy (1996), and Christian Perspectives on Law and Relationism (2000).
Christopher Townsend read economics at Cambridge University and now works as a solicitor specialising in corporate tax law and employee share schemes. He has previously spent four years at the Jubilee Centre, assisting the Keep Sunday Special Campaign, and examining biblical and theological issues underlying the Centre's work. He co-authored Political Christians in a Plural Society (1994).
Dr Alison Watkin is a Research Fellow in International Law at St John's College, Cambridge. Her research and teaching interests include International Human Rights Law (especially the rights of non-citizens, counter-terrorism, and human rights) and International Legal Theory.
Dr Christopher Watkin is a Junior Research Fellow in contemporary Continental thought at Magdalene College, Cambridge. His doctoral thesis was on the relation between deconstruction and phenomenology, and he is now researching the current ‘turn to religion’ in Continental thought.
Margaret Wilson read fine art and art history at Reading University, followed by a London University Diploma in Theology. She taught art (with art history) at Itchen Sixth Form College, Southampton. Subsequently, she lectured in art history in the Adult Education Departments of Southampton University and Oxford University (OUDES) (1979-1984), and more recently has lectured at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge since 1986. Prior to that she held the Centenary Schoolmistress Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge, researching into the origins of modern art. She is a Life Member of Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge. In her own artwork she has specialised in drawing, water colours, and printmaking (mainly lithography).