Malcolm Grundy

Malcolm Grundy is an Anglican priest and theologian.

Education and career

Grundy first part trained as an architect before studying theology at King's College London.www.kcl.ac.uk/ His curacy from 1969-72 was at Doncaster Parish Church, now Doncaster Minster. From there he moved to the Sheffield Industrial Mission becoming Senior Chaplain in 1974. discovery.(nationalarchives.gov.uk) Whist there he founded 'Sheffield 6' a training workshop for unemployed young adults. In 1980, he moved to the Diocese of London to be Director of Education and Community. From 1986-91 he was Team Rector of Huntingdon in the diocese of Ely. A shorter time of three years was spent as Director of the community development training agency AVEC.{www.avecresources.org/}

In 1994, Grundy was appointed Archdeacon of Craven in the Diocese of Bradford. A long stay in this post without further Church of England preferment resulted in his being 'headhunted' in 2005 to become the founding director of the Foundation for Church Leadership, an organization dedicated to the training and support of senior church leaders.(www.westcott.cam.ac.uk) He was an Honorary Canon of Ely Cathedral from 1987-94. In the staffing and financial crisis surrounding Bradford Cathedral, he was brought in as Acting Dean from 2004-5. He was appointed Canon but not Archdeacon Emeritus on retirement in 2006.

Grundy achieved a PhD from Leeds University in 2014 and is a Visiting Fellow at York (www.yorksj.ac.uk/)

Grundy is a prolific writer and the author of a series of books on church leadership. Alongside stipendiary employment, he has been co-founder of church related organisations including The Edward King Institute for Ministry Development and founder editor of its journal Ministry, MODEM (Ministerial and Organizational Disciplines for the Advancement of Ministry) and the Foundation for Church Leadership. From 1996-2004 he was a Non-executive Director of the Church Times newspaper. He is currently Vice-Chair of the Retired Clergy Association of the Church of England and a trustee of The Women's Education Partnership, formerly Together for Sudan.{www.womenseducationpartnership.org/}

Publications

• Light in the City: Stories of the Church Urban Fund Canterbury Press, 1990
• An Unholy Conspiracy : the separation of church and industry since the Reformation Canterbury Press, 1992
• Evangelisation through the Adult Catechumenate Grove 1991 (translated into Swedish as Om Vuxansvag In I Forsamlingen Verbum, 1992)
• Community Work: a handbook for volunteer groups and local churches Cassell Mowbray, 1995
• The Parchmore Partnership (Ed.) Chester House Publications, 1995
• Understanding Congregations: A new shape for the local church Cassell Mowbray, 1998
• Contributor and Editorial Advisor: Management and Ministry 1997 and Managing, Leading, Ministering March, 1999, Canterbury Press
• Faith On the Way Malcolm Grundy & Peter Ball, Cassell Mowbray, November 2000
• What they don’t teach you at theological college Canterbury Press, 2003
• Contributor to Creative Church Leadership MODEM/ Canterbury Press, February 2004
• What’s new in Church Leadership Canterbury Press, 2007
• Contributor to Breaking the Mould of Christendom, a symposium Epworth Press, 2008
• Leadership and Oversight: new models for episcopal ministry Continuum, 2011
• Multi-Congregation Ministry: theology and practice in a changing church Canterbury Press Norwich, 2015

External links

• Malcolm Grundy - Bloomsbury Publishing
• Published works by Canterbury Press