Ranald macaulay biography of barack

Jonathan Fletcher was converted at the age of 12, and nurtured through Scripture Union camps. Through the writings of JC Ryle and Griffith Thomas, he became an ‘Anglican by conviction’, and trained for the ordained ministry at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford.

He has pastored an independent Anglican church in Wimbledon with an evangelical foundation for the past 25 years.

Tim Thornborough: When was there any doubt that Anglicanism would be the route that you would adopt in ministry?

Jonathan Fletcher: My generation in the 60s in Oxford was rocked by John Robinson’s Honest to God, so that comparatively few of my contemporaries did get ordained in the Anglican church.

Macaulay education system

When I went to Wycliffe, in my second year, I was the only conservative evangelical there. I’m not sure I seriously considered other routes to ministry because, at that time, the classic formularies of the Church of England were still the accepted goal posts of Anglicanism.

We were helped at Oxford by the Bishop Jewel