Biography
I am the Chaplain, Head of Welfare and Fellow in Theology for Regent’s Park College, Oxford. I am a fully accredited Baptist minister in the Baptist Union of Great Britain. I underwent ministerial formation at Regent’s Park College from 2011-2014, alongside writing my MTh in Applied Theology, “A feminist discussion of ‘complementarian’ arguments for women in ministry, with particular reference to the Baptist Union of Great Britain”.
Previously I worked as the Baptist Union of Great Britain’s ‘Public Issues Enabler’, leading our work on faith in the public square, and working ecumenically with the Joint Public Issues Team. This was an exciting, reactive role asking the theological questions in a team of policy and economics experts. Whilst there I also founded the ‘Politics in the Pulpit?’ weekly podcast/vlog, a lectionary based preaching resource designed to ask questions about how we engage with political issues in the world and in the scriptural texts. Prior to this I have been the minister of John Bunyan Baptist Church in Oxford, and Market Bosworth Free Church in Leicestershire and prior to those served as a Pastoral Assistant for St Mary Magdalene’s Episcopal Church in Dundee. My undergraduate degree was a Master of Theology from University of St Andrews, 2006-2010.
Research Areas
Christian and Religious Ethics; History of Christianity; Study of Religions
Research Interests
Beth is currently undertaking practical qualitative research on the dynamic between the lived experience of women in UK Baptist ministry and their theologies. She is published on the theology of maternal mental health and topics around gender and Baptist ecclesiology.
Courses Taught
I mostly teach on the BTh, including A5: Contemporary Christianity in the Contemporary World, A6: Introduction to Ministry and Worship, D2: Issues in Mission, D3: Issues in Christian Worship, D4: Issues in Christian Ministry, D5: Issues in Christian Spirituality and D6: The Person and Role of an Ordained Minister.
Recent Publications
Clarke, A., with, Allison-Glenny, E., Finamore, S., Goodliff, A., Gotobed, J., Jacobson, J., … Woodman, S. (2026). A Shared Understanding of Baptist Identity. Baptist Quarterly, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576X.2026.2614195.
Allison-Glenny, Beth. ‘14th December: 3rd Sunday of Advent Genesis 3’. The Expository Times 137, no. 2 (2025): 82–84. https://doi.org/10.1177/00145246251398892a.
Allison-Glenny, Elizabeth. ‘Attending to Silence and Screaming: A Theology from Mental Illness in Pregnancy’. In Pregnancy and Birth: Critical Theological Conceptions, 1st ed, edited by Karen O’Donnell and Claire Louise Williams. SCM Press, 2024.
Allison-Glenny, Elizabeth. ‘The Disembodiment of Birthing and the Incapacity to Theologically Reflect: A Perspective from Perinatal Mental Illness in Ministry’. Practical Theology 16, no. 3 (2023): 330–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2023.2211876.
Allison-Glenny, Beth, and Andy Goodliff. ‘Appreciating Ruth Gouldbourne’. Journal of Baptist Theology in Context, no. 4 (2021): 73–82.
Allison-Glenny, Beth, Anthony Clarke, and Andy Goodliff. Reconciling Rites: Essays in Honour of Myra N. Blyth. Centre for Baptist Studies, 2020.
Allison-Glenny, Beth. ‘“That We Might See Ourselves as We Could Be”; Baptist Interpretations of Scripture on the Complementarity of Male and Female’. In Gathering Disciples; Essays in Honour of Christopher J. Ellis. Pickwick Publications, 2017.
Allison-Glenny, Beth, Andy Goodliff, Ruth Gouldbourne, et al. ‘The Courage to Be Baptist: A Statement on Baptist Ecclesiology and Human Sexuality’. Baptist Quarterly 48, no. 1 (2017): 2–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576X.2016.1272300.
