Paul Weston
Rev. Dr. Paul Weston was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, but spent most of his formative years growing up in the centre of Oxford. He first came to Cambridge as a history undergraduate at Trinity Hall in 1976. He has an MPhil in New Testament studies and gained his PhD from King’s College London on Lesslie Newbigin’s missionary engagement with Western culture. He was ordained in the Church of England in 1985, and has been a theological educator for over 30 years. Alongside his teaching he has continued to lead teams amongst universities and parishes, sharing the good news of Jesus Christ and seeking to better understand how the good news of the gospel relates to the cultural assumptions of changing generations.
Since 2003 Weston has taught mission studies at Ridley Hall Cambridge and has been an affiliated lecturer in the University of Cambridge Divinity Faculty. In 2014 he became Director of the Newbigin Centre for Gospel and Western Culture, based at Ridley. He retired in 2023 but has been elected a Fellow of Ridley, and continues to direct the Newbigin Centre, overseeing and supervising research students working for Masters and Doctoral degrees in association with the Centre. Between 2014 and 2019 he partnered with the Newbigin House of Studies in San Francisco, hosting an annual ‘Lesslie Newbigin Summer Institute’ at Trinity Hall Cambridge, with attendees from the States, Europe, and further afield.