Andy Colebrooke

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My current focus is on how films can be used to encourage conversations about faith. I’m conducting a survey to see how churches make use of films in services, during courses, in homegroups, and at film nights etc.

About me

My background is in science, studying Physics at Imperial College, London, before doing postgraduate research in Polymer Physics. Prior to ordination I taught Reactor Physics at Queen Mary College, London, followed by more than a decade teaching mathematics in secondary schools. I was ordained in 1994 and have served two incumbencies in Chelmsford Diocese. My conviction is that science and faith need not be enemies, but rather, together they can provide a rich harmony of understanding. My booklet ‘Science and Religion’ explores this conviction through considering the spirituality of the Victorian physicist James Clerk Maxwell, sometimes dubbed ‘The Scottish Einstein’. More recently I have written a Lent course called ‘Thoughts of God’ based on the life of the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, as portrayed in the film ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’.

I retired from stipendiary ministry in 2016 and now live in Essex with my wife Hazel; we delight in having three grown-up children and seven amazing grandchildren.