Who’s Who:
Our Speakers
Dr Graham Beynon
Head of Local Ministries for the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches. He provides support, training, and advice to churches and their leaders. He is also a visiting lecturer at Oak Hill College, London. He previously worked in pastoral ministry in Cambridge and Leicester and has particularly been involved in leading church plants. His PhD was on the 18th century hymn writer Isaac Watts. He is the author of over a dozen books. He is married to Charis, and they have three grown-up children.
Professor Ian Shaw
A member of York Evangelical Church, he is Professor Emeritus at the University of York. He has taught and worked in universities across Europe and Asia. Writer and editor of more than thirty books, he is the author of Leslie Land: His Life and Ministry (Hesed and Emet, 2023). His latest book is Christians and Slavery (DayOne Publications, 2025).
Dr Daniel Johnson
Daniel Johnson is an academic and writer from Nottingham, England. His PhD concentrated on the intellectual context of Isaac Watts. He was awarded the Roger F. Poole Early Career Essay Prize by the International John Bunyan Society for his research. Since his PhD, Daniel has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the John Rylands Library, Manchester, studying the role of evangelical hymns in the transatlantic Slave Trade. He has shared his work on the hymn tradition with the BBC, Christianity Today, and Premier Magazine. Daniel is married to Rosanna, and they have four children.
Our Guests:
Marylynn Rouse of the will present on John Newton in Yorkshire. Marylynn is the executive reseacher of the John Newton Project, which has as its objective the transformation of society through faith in Jesus Christ, using the life and works of John Newton as one great example. She is widely recognized as a leading expert on the life and work of Newton.
Sarah Allen will chair the Question & Answer Panel. Sarah is a Director of London Seminary's Flourish Course, training women for ministry. She has also written three books including Clothed with Strength, a collection of biographies of notable evangelical women. During her day-to-day life, Sarah combines teaching English in a sixth-form college with pastoral care in church and occasional writing/lecturing. She and her husband Lewis have five (nearly all adult) children.