Steve F Latham

Steve F Latham BA MA PGDipTh PhD

Steve Latham was born in Canada, and his parents returned to the UK when he was 4. He grew up in Bury in Lancashire and was converted at the age of 17 in an Independent Methodist Church, influenced by the Jesus Movement.

He studied History and Politics at York University, and did an MA in Southern African Studies, writing his dissertation about Black Theology. After this he went to St. John’s College in Nottingham to do a Postgraduate Diploma in Theology.

He met his future wife, Sue, at this stage, although she subsequently went to Japan for two years as a short-term missionary with CMS. Steve meanwhile came to London to work with Youth For Christ in Hackney, and began his association with urban mission in the capital.

Next came a stint as a staff worker for UCCF in the Christian Unions of London University. At this time, Steve also became a member of his first Baptist Church, Frampton Park in Hackney. In 1984, Sue returned from Japan and they married.

Finally, he was accepted as a Baptist Minister, and pastured Hackney Downs Church. During this time, he was active in anti-racist and immigration-deportation issues. Sue and Steve’s two children, Joanna and Michael, were born during this time.

In the 1990s, he was supported by the Baptist Scholarship Fund to do his PhD at Kings College London, where he studied contemporary prophetic ministry, examining the interface between Pentecostal-charismatic and political understandings of the prophetic role. When he had finished this, Steve was called to pastor Westbourne Park Baptist Church in Paddington, London. Here he set up community projects and led the church in spiritual renewal.

He has encouraged theological reflection on urban mission and created the London Urban Theology Project which has run for the last five years, see www.urbantheology.org. He is interested in urban theology, contemporary culture and social theory.

email s.latham@spurgeons.ac.uk

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