Doug Gay is a Lecturer in Practical Theology at Trinity College, Glasgow University. He is an ordained minister who trained for ministry in the Church of Scotland and worked as a Church of Scotland minister for two years, before spending six years working in Hackney, East London as a minister of the United Reformed Church. He has worked as a religious columnist for The Times and is also active as a hymnwriter and liturgist.
He was also a founder member and driving force in the innovative Late, Late Service in Glasgow and co-author with Jonny Baker of the influential ‘Alternative Worship’ book (published by SPCK) and “Gordon Brown and his Presbyterian Moral Compass” – Forthcoming in Scott, P & Graham, E. ed. Remoralising Britain (Continuum, 2009).
