Canon Dr Cathy Ross
Canon Dr Cathy Ross
Dr Cathy Ross leads Pioneer Mission Leadership Training Oxford and is a lecturer in mission at Regent’s Park College, Oxford.
Until 2016 she was the General Secretary of the International Association for Mission Studies.
She has previously worked in Rwanda, Congo and Uganda with NZCMS. Cathy is also canon theologian at Leicester Cathedral.
Her recent publications include Women with a Mission, Rediscovering Missionary Wives in Early New Zealand (Auckland: Penguin, 2006); Mission in the 21st Century, Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission (ed with Andrew Walls, London: DLT, 2008); Life-Widening Mission: Global Anglican Perspectives (Oxford: Regnum, 2012); Mission in Context (with John Corrie, Ashgate, 2012); The Pioneer Gift (with Jonny Baker, London: SCM, 2014); Mission on the Road to Emmaus, (with Steve Bevans, London: SCM, 2015); Pioneering Spirituality (with Jonny Baker, London: SCM, 2015); Imagining Mission with John V Taylor (with Jonny Baker: SCM, 2020).
Her research interests are in the areas of contextual theologies, World Christianity, feminist theologies and hospitality.
She is married to Steve, a GP in Oxford and they have three children and five grandchildren. She enjoys tennis, swimming, coffee, travel and watching the All Blacks.
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