My name is Kate Massey. I am a priest, Scot-in-exile and Jane Austen geek. All opinions expressed in this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of any place I work or any organisation I serve.

A brief explanation…

Prior to ordination, I was a doctor working in a range of specialities: from A+E to sexual health to palliative care to psychiatry. I trained at the Queens Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education in Birmingham at the same time as parenting three young children. Both experiences were hugely formative – my MA dissertation researched the experience of women dually called to work and motherhood using feminist pastoral methodology. Since ordination, I have worked in an affluent civic church, a struggling rural parish, a lively suburban parish with church plant and now a warm and wonderful post-industrial context. I am interested in reconciliation, feminist theology, creative liturgy, social justice and schools work. I am also Dean of Women’s Ministry for my diocese.

I share this brief CV to explain that I am a bit of a Jack of All Trades and Master of None. My interests and experience are varied. My expertise, I suppose, is in bringing that breadth of experience to bear in situations of complexity; to use my decades-old diagnostic skills to observe, analyse and ask questions; to use my experience as a woman alongside my interest in feminist pastoral theology to wonder how the Church might better hear and learn from voices which have gone historically unheard.