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Elaine Storkey (''
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'' Lively; born 1944) is an English philosopher, sociologist, and theologian. She is known for her lecturing, writing and broadcasting.


Early years and education

Born Elaine Lively on 1 October 1944, Storkey is the eldest of the three children of James and Anne Lively. She grew up in
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, Yorkshire, and was Head Girl at Ossett Grammar School (now
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), whose former pupils included the novelist
Stan Barstow Stanley Barstow FRSL (28 June 1928 – 1 August 2011) was an English novelist. Biography Barstow was born in Horbury, near Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His father was a coal miner and he attended Ossett Grammar School. He work ...
, a friend of her parents, and the artist twins: Donald and Peter Heywood. Her brother Philip Lively has lectured in universities in Japan, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates, her sister, Elizabeth Slacum lives in Maryland, US, and her brother-in-law, Richard Slacum is a director of international development who has worked throughout Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Elaine studied at the
University of Wales, Aberystwyth , mottoeng = A world without knowledge is no world at all , established = 1872 (as ''The University College of Wales'') , former_names = University of Wales, Aberystwyth , type = Public , endowment = ...
, doing postgraduate work in philosophy at
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,
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,
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, Canada, and
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, England. In 1968 she married
Alan Storkey Alan Storkey (born 2 October 1943, in London) is an economist, sociologist and artist. He is known for his writing and lectures and for his work on transport and the arms industry, arms trade. He grew up in Wembley, Nottingham and Norwich, the so ...
, an economist, writer and lecturer, and they have three sons.


Working life

After research on
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's work, Storkey's first academic post was in philosophy in Oxford University, as a tutor at
Manchester College, Oxford Harris Manchester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It was founded in Warrington in 1757 as a college for Unitarian students and moved to Oxford in 1893. It became a full college of th ...
. She left Manchester College to join her husband on the faculty of the
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. She started broadcasting with the
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in 1986, after they both returned from a period of lecturing at Calvin College,
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, and Covenant College, Tennessee, in the United States. She has since been involved in many documentaries, arts, news and current affairs programmes. She was a presenter on
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's ''Thought for the Today'' for more than 20 years and has written many scripts for the
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. She currently broadcasts regularly with
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, especially
Sunday Sequence BBC Northern Ireland's Sunday morning speech radio programme ''Sunday Sequence'' has a magazine format and a focus on religion, ethics and current affairs. ''Sunday Sequence'' is one of BBC Radio Ulster's longest running programmes having been on ...
. Elaine Storkey has authored several books, including ''What's Right with Feminism'', ''The Search for Intimacy'' and ''Mary's Story, Mary's Song''. She has also been a member of the General Synod of the
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from 1987 to 2016, serving on the Archbishop's Rural Commission and the Cathedrals Commission. For many years she wrote for ''
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'' and for the Swedish newspaper ''Dagen'' and for the ''
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''. During the 1990s she collaborated with Roman Catholic author and theologian Margaret Hebblethwaite, and they co-authored a book exploring Christian feminism from two different traditions. Their writings on women are widely used within the Roman Catholic as well as other churches. Storkey was also a close colleague of the biblical scholar
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, whose obituary she wrote in July 2011. After many years teaching and writing with the
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and presenting radio and television documentaries on gender, race, and ethnicity with colleague Stuart Hall, Storkey succeeded
John Stott John Robert Walmsley Stott (27 April 1921 – 27 July 2011) was an English Anglican cleric and theologian who was noted as a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement. He was one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974. In ...
as Executive Director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC) in 1991, a post she held until 1999. She contributed to Stott's obituary in 2011. She also taught at
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. In 1997 she became President of
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, a Christian relief and development charity, and has since been involved in monitoring aid, relief and advocacy work in countries of the Global South. In 2010 she and her husband Alan became founder members of Restored, an organisation committed to advocating against violence to women. Storkey has served on many other boards and councils, including the
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, the environmental agency
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, the global advocacy group Micah Challenge, and as Vice President of the
University of Gloucestershire , mottoeng = In Spirit and Truth , established = , type = Public , endowment = £2.4 m (2015) , chancellor = Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie , vice_chancellor ...
. She is currently President of
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, a Church of England think-tank. She holds a Lambeth DD degree an honorary PhD from the University of Gloucestershire, and is a Fellow of Aberystwyth University. Storkey's ''Created or Constructed'' grew out of lectures given at the
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in Australia. From 2003 to 2006, she was a colleague of
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as Senior Research Fellow at
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, and remained there until 2007. In 2007, 12 members of the academic staff resigned, critical of the leadership of the college principal, Richard Turnbull. At an employment tribunal in 2008, the college admitted lack of compliance with employment law and was ordered to pay compensation. Turnbull was removed from his post in 2012. Storkey continues to teach on the Christian Mind course at Oxford University, and has been a lecturer with the Montgomery Trust since 2001. She became a member of High Table at
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, in January 2008. From February 2009 to September 2012 she was Director of Education and Training for the Church of England's
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, in conjunction with
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. In the summer of 2009 she held a Templeton-Cambridge Fellowship in Journalism and was Chair of The Church and Media network from 2010 to 2012. Among the public lectures she has given recently are the Frumentius Lectures, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Annual Barnardo Lecture, the "Global Gender Lectures" for the Cymru Institute, the Oliver Lyseight Annual Memorial Lecture, lectures on "Creative Christianity in Popular Culture" at
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, US, the All Saints Lecture, the Kuyper Lecture in Princeton USA, and lectures on film and theology. She has been a regular speaker at the Greenbelt Festival. A fuller list of lectures can be found on the author's webpage. Many lectures, including archived ones, are on video and available publicly on social media. She has been a member of the Emerging Markets Symposium, and The Power Shift Forum for Women in the World Economy. Storkey has lectured across the world, including in Haiti, India, Nepal, Turkey and Ethiopia, and is a prominent feminist evangelical. Her writings have brought a biblical perspective to the feminist movement. She is concerned to highlight the impact of climate change and global poverty, as well as of sexual violence, on women. She has visited many African countries and been involved in advocacy, with strong links to Heal Africa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Her widely acclaimed book ''Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women'' was published in November 2015. The second edition, published by IVP Academic in the US in 2018, won the ''Christianity Today'' Book of the Year Award 2019, for Politics and Public Life.


Awards and honours

Storkey was given a lifetime achievement award for services to women by the American group CBE in 2008, and in 2013 her alma mater, Aberystwyth University, honoured her with a University Fellowship. In April 2016 she received the Abraham Kuyper Prize from Princeton Theological Seminary, in recognition of her work as a scholar, writer and journalist.


Personal life

Alan and Elaine Storkey have three sons and six grandchildren. Amos James m. Helen Shelley 1994, Matthew Emmanuel Milton (1974) m. Annie Watson 1999, Caleb Alexander Titus (1977) m. Kerry Lewis 2008. The grandchildren are five grandsons and a granddaughter.


Published works

;Books * ''What's Right with Feminism'', SPCK, 1985 * ''Mary's Story, Mary's Song'', Harper-Collins, 1993 * ''Magnify the Lord'', HarperCollins, 1996 * ''The Search for Intimacy'', Hodder Headline, 1994 * ''Conversations on Christian Feminism'', with Margaret Hebblethwaite, Harper-Collins, 1999 * ''Created or Constructed: The Great Gender Debate'', Paternoster Press, 2000 * ''The Origins of Difference'', Baker Book House, 2002 * ''Word on the Street'', Old Hall Press, 2005 * ''Scars Across Humanity'', SPCK, November 2015 revised 2018 * ''Women in a Patriarchal World'', SPCK, April 2020 ;Other publications * "The Production of Social Divisions", ''Social Sciences: A Foundation'', Open University Press, 1985. * "Sex and Sexuality in the Church", ''Mirror to the Church'', Editor Monica Furlong, SPCK, 1986. * ''Faith in the Countryside, Report of the Archbishops', Commission on Rural Areas'', co-author, 1990 * "Modernity and Anthropology", in Philip Sampson, Vinay Samuel and Chris Sugden (eds), ''Faith and Modernity'', Lynx, 1994 * "Dooyeweerd's Anthropology – The Male-Female Dimension", in
Sander Griffioen Sander Griffioen (born 31 May 1941) is a Dutch philosopher, and Emeritus Professor for intercultural philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Biography Born in Loenen aan de Vecht, Griffioen studied at the Vrije Universiteit The V ...
, Bert M. Balk (eds), ''Christian Philosophy at the Close of the Twentieth Century, Assessment and Perspective'', Uitgeverij kok Kampen, 1995 * "Sexuality and Spirituality", in David Torrance, ''Family, Sexuality and Spirituality'', Hansel Press, 1997 * "A Commentary – New Testament Study Bible", with Catherine Kroeger and Mary Evans, CUP, 2002 * "Theology and Gender", in ''A Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology'', CUP, 2008. * "Religion and Sustainability in Global Perspective" in ''Sustainability in Crisis'', edit Colin Bell, Wordpress 2013


References


External links

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storkey.info - The Homepage for Elaine and Alan Storkey.
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