{{Short description|English philosopher, sociologist, and theologian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}} {{Infobox academic | name = Elaine Storkey | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Elaine Lively | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|10|01}} | birth_place = [[Wakefield]], England | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | spouse = {{marriage|[[Alan Storkey]]|1968}} | children = [[Amos Storkey]], Matthew Storkey, Caleb Storkey | awards = <!--notable national-level awards only--> | website = {{official URL}} | alma_mater = {{ubl | {{nowrap|[[University of Wales, Aberystwyth]]}} | [[McMaster University]]}} | thesis_title = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = {{hlist | [[Christian feminism]] | [[open evangelicalism]]}} | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = [[H. Evan Runner]] | era = | discipline = {{hlist | [[Philosophy]] | [[sociology]] | [[theology]]}} | sub_discipline = <!--academic discipline specialist area – e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th-century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist--> | workplaces = {{ubl | [[Oak Hill College]] | [[Open University]] | [[Wycliffe Hall, Oxford]]}} | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''Elaine Storkey''' ({{née}} '''Lively''';<ref>[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310615081_A_History_of_the_Reformational_Movement_in_Britain_II_The_Post-World-War_II_Years_to_the_end_of_the_Twentieth_Century A History of the Reformational Movement in Britain. II: The Post-World-War II Years to the end of the Twentieth Century], p. 8</ref> born 1944) is a British philosopher, sociologist, and theologian. She is known for her lecturing, writing and broadcasting.
==Early years and education== Born Elaine Lively on 1 October 1944, Storkey is the eldest of the three children of James and Anne Lively. She grew up in [[Ossett]], Yorkshire, and was Head Girl at Ossett Grammar School (now [[Ossett Academy]]), whose former pupils included the novelist [[Stan Barstow]], a friend of her parents, and the artist twins: Donald and Peter Heywood. Her brother Philip Lively has lectured in universities in Japan, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates, her sister, Elizabeth Slacum and brother-in-law, Richard Slacum, live in Maryland, USA, from where he has worked throughout Africa, Asia, and the Middle East in international development. Elaine studied at the [[University of Wales, Aberystwyth]], doing postgraduate work in philosophy at [[McMaster University]], [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]], [[Ontario]], Canada, and [[York University]], England.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}
In 1968 she married [[Alan Storkey]], an economist, writer and lecturer, and they have three sons and six grandchildren.
==Working life== After research on [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]'s work, Storkey's first academic post was in philosophy in Oxford University, as a tutor at [[Manchester College, Oxford]].<ref>Fellows of Harris Manchester College, Oxford: Anthony Kenny, Terence Copley, Elaine Storkey, Ralph Waller, Raymond Plant [Paperback].</ref>
She left Manchester College to join her husband on the faculty of the [[University of Stirling]]. She started broadcasting with the [[BBC]] in 1986, after they both returned from a period of lecturing at [[Calvin College]], [[Michigan]], and Covenant College, Tennessee, in the United States. She has since been involved in many documentaries, arts, news and current affairs programmes. She was a presenter on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''Thought for the Today'' for more than 20 years<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/religion/tftd/queryengine?attrib_1=author&oper_1=eq&val_1_1=Elaine+Storkey&submit=Search+author|title=Thought for the day – search results Elaine Storkey|work=BBC |accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref> and has written many scripts for the [[BBC World Service]]. One of her Thoughts took the Saudi Arabian judiciary to task after a brief World Service item reported that Saudi Arabia planned to hang a Christian Filipino preacher on Christmas Day. Her Thought became a news item throughout the day, was taken up by [[Amnesty International]] and the man was released on Christmas Eve.<ref>url=https: "Saudis Relent, Will Not Hang Christian Pastor".</ref> Storkey has continued to broadcast for the last twenty years with [[BBC Radio Ulster]], especially [[Sunday Sequence]], including covering for them the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
Elaine Storkey has authored several books, along with co-authoring texts for the [[Open University]]. These include ''What's Right with Feminism'', ''The Search for Intimacy'', ''Mary's Story, Mary's Song'', ''Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women'' and ''Women in a Patriarchal World.'' Her most recent book is ''Meeting God in Matthew'': a short commentary on Matthew's Gospel. * <ref>{{Cite book |last=Storkey |first=Elaine |title=Meeting God in Matthew |publisher=SPCK |year=2022 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_aTNwQEACAAJ |isbn=978-0281081950 }}</ref> Her book ''Created or Constructed'' grew out of lectures given at the [[University of New South Wales]] in Australia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newcollege.unsw.edu.au/Previous-New-College-Lectures.286.0.html |title=Previous Lectures |website=Newcollege.unsw.edu.au |accessdate=18 October 2011}}</ref> Over many years she wrote for ''[[The Independent]]'' for the Swedish newspaper ''Dagen'' and for the ''[[Church Times]]''. During the 1990s she collaborated with Roman Catholic author and theologian [[Margaret Hebblethwaite]], and they co-authored a book exploring Christian feminism from two different traditions.<ref>''Conversations on Christian Feminism'', London: Harper Collins, 1999.</ref> Their writings on women are widely used within the Roman Catholic as well as other churches.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.womenpriests.org/classic2/storkey6.asp|title="Women Can Be Priests".|website=Womenpriests.org|accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref> Storkey was also a close colleague of the American biblical scholar [[Catherine Clark Kroeger]], whose obituary she wrote in July 2011.<ref>[http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/july/liberatingwoman.html "A Liberating Woman"], ''Christianity Today'', Vol. 55, No. 7, July 2011, p, 42.</ref>
After many years teaching and writing with the [[Open University]] and presenting radio and television documentaries on gender, race, and ethnicity with colleague [[Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)|Stuart Hall]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-stuart-hall-sociologist-and-pioneer-in-the-field-of-cultural-studies-whose-work-explored-the-concept-of-britishness-9120126.html |title=Professor Stuart Hall: Sociologist and pioneer in the field of cultural studies whose work explored the concept of Britishness |work=[[The Independent]] |date=10 February 2014 |location=London |access-date=10 October 2021}}</ref> Storkey succeeded [[John Stott]] as Executive Director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.licc.org.uk |title=The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity |website=Licc.org.uk |accessdate=18 October 2011}}</ref> in 1991, a post she held until 1999. She contributed to Stott's obituary in 2011.<ref>[http://www.licc.org.uk/tribute-tributes/elaine-storkeys-tribute-to-john-stott-1166 Elaine Storkey's Tribute to John Stott] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920005025/http://www.licc.org.uk/tribute-tributes/elaine-storkeys-tribute-to-john-stott-1166}}</ref> She also taught at [[King's College London]]. In 1997 she became President of [[Tearfund]], a Christian relief and development charity, and has since been involved in monitoring aid, relief and advocacy work in countries of the [[Global South]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tearfund.org/About+us+1/Well-known+friends/Dr+Elaine+Storkey.htm|title=Dr Elaine Storkey – President of Tearfund|website=Tearfund.org|accessdate=30 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100210004310/http://www.tearfund.org/About+us+1/Well-known+friends/Dr+Elaine+Storkey.htm|archive-date=10 February 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> In 2010 she and her husband Alan became founder members of Restored, an organisation advocating against violence towards women.
Storkey was a member of the General Synod of the [[Church of England]] from 1987 to 2016, serving on the Archbishop's Rural Commission, the Cathedrals Commission and, from 2021-3, the Household and Families Commission. She was the C of E delegate to the [[Church of Scotland]] General Assembly and to the [[World Council of Churches]] where she was involved in dialogue with the Orthodox Churches for a number of years. She has served on many other boards and councils, including the [[Crown Nominations Commission]], the environmental agency [[A Rocha]], the global advocacy group Micah Challenge, and as Vice President of the [[University of Gloucestershire]]. She is currently President of [[Fulcrum (Anglican think tank)|Fulcrum]], a Church of England think-tank.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?ID=206 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120731072310/http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?ID=206 |url-status=dead |archive-date=31 July 2012 |title=Fulcrum: "Being Disciples" – 2007 Conference, Elaine Storkey |website=Fulcrum-anglican.org.uk |date=27 April 2007 |accessdate=18 October 2011 }}</ref> She holds a [[Lambeth degree|Lambeth DD degree]] an honorary PhD from the University of Gloucestershire, and is a Fellow of [[Aberystwyth University]].<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/archive/2013/07/title-137739-en.html|title=Dr Elaine Storkey honoured - Aberystwyth University|website=Aber.ac.uk|accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref>
From 2003 to 2007, she was a colleague of [[Alister McGrath]] as Senior Research Fellow at [[Wycliffe Hall, Oxford]]. In 2007, 12 members of the academic staff resigned, critical of the governance of the college and its principal, [[Richard Turnbull (theologian)|Richard Turnbull]]. At an employment tribunal in 2008, the college admitted lack of compliance with employment law and was ordered to pay compensation. In 2024 the college issued a public apology to the academics it had wronged and held a service of lament.<ref>url=http://www.wycliffe.ox.ac.uk/article/restoring-relationships-former-tutors</ref> Storkey continues to teach on the Christian Mind course at Oxford University,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oxfordchristianmind.org/people/elaine-storkey/ |title=Elaine Storkey | Oxford Christian Mind Programme |website=Oxfordchristianmind.org |accessdate=18 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727161351/http://www.oxfordchristianmind.org/people/elaine-storkey/ |archive-date=27 July 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and has been a lecturer with the Montgomery Trust since 2001.<ref>[http://www.montgomerytrust.org.uk/lecturer.php?21 The Montgomery Trust.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921061028/http://www.montgomerytrust.org.uk/lecturer.php?21 |date=21 September 2013 }}</ref> She became a member of High Table at [[Newnham College, Cambridge]], in January 2008. From February 2009 to September 2012 she was Director of Education and Training for Church of England evangelists,<ref>[http://www.churcharmy.org.uk/pub/nc/News/News2009/0902elainestorkey.aspx "Elaine Storkey appointed new Director of Training at Church Army"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719044055/http://www.churcharmy.org.uk/pub/nc/News/News2009/0902elainestorkey.aspx |date=19 July 2011 }}, ChurchArmy Online, 13 February 2009.</ref> in conjunction with [[York St John University]]. In the summer of 2009 she held a Templeton-Cambridge Fellowship in Journalism<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.templeton-cambridge.org/about_the_fellowship/ |title=About the Fellowship |publisher=Templeton-Cambridge |date=13 June 2009 |accessdate=18 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004182209/http://www.templeton-cambridge.org/about_the_fellowship/ |archivedate=4 October 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref> and was Chair of The Church and Media network from 2010 to 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://themedianet.org/article?article=4eb66dec-373a-4edd-83f2-680270d34425 |title=Elaine Storkey to lead Church and Media Network |website=Themedianet.org |date=2 February 2010 |accessdate=18 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830225103/http://themedianet.org/article?article=4eb66dec-373a-4edd-83f2-680270d34425 |archivedate=30 August 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref> Among the public lectures she has given recently are the Frumentius Lectures, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.egst-addis.org/Other%20Activities.html |title=EGST |website=Egst-addis.org |accessdate=18 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726020629/http://www.egst-addis.org/Other%20Activities.html |archivedate=26 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> the Annual Bernardo Lecture,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmf.org.uk/doctors/events.asp?id=279 |title=Events – forthcoming events for doctors and medical professionals |website=Cmf.org.uk |accessdate=18 October 2011 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> the "Global Gender Lectures" for the Cymru Institute,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cicconline.org.uk/events-generic/gender |title=Cardiff Wales | CICC Online (The Cymru Institute for Contemporary Christianity) |website=Cicconline.org.uk |date=21 October 2010 |accessdate=18 October 2011 |archive-date=13 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813145733/http://cicconline.org.uk/events-generic/gender |url-status=dead }}</ref> the Oliver Lyseight Annual Memorial Lecture,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ntcg.org.uk/education/AnnualLecture2011.stm |title=The Oliver Lyseight Annual Lecture 2011 |publisher=N.T.C.G. |date=17 January 2011 |accessdate=18 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929155542/http://www.ntcg.org.uk/education/AnnualLecture2011.stm |archivedate=29 September 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref> lectures on "Creative Christianity in Popular Culture" at [[Dordt College]], US,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dordt.edu/about-dordt/services-support/andreas-center/past-projects/andreas-center-conference-2013/conference-details|title=Conference Details|date=11 April 2016|website=Dordt College|accessdate=1 May 2019|archive-date=1 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501131041/https://www.dordt.edu/about-dordt/services-support/andreas-center/past-projects/andreas-center-conference-2013/conference-details|url-status=dead}}</ref> the All Saints Lecture,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpool.anglican.org/All-Saints-Annual-Lecture---October-26th-2016|title=All Saints Annual Lecture|website=Liverpool.anglican.org|accessdate=1 May 2019|archive-date=19 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119091940/http://www.liverpool.anglican.org/All-Saints-Annual-Lecture---October-26th-2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> the Kuyper Lecture in Princeton USA,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://av.ptsem.edu/detailedplayer.aspx?PK=7ed022d5-3903-e611-b265-0050568c0018|title=The Abraham Kuyper Lecture and Prize|website=Av.ptsem.edu|accessdate=1 May 2019|archive-date=19 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119092109/http://av.ptsem.edu/detailedplayer.aspx?PK=7ed022d5-3903-e611-b265-0050568c0018|url-status=dead}}</ref> and lectures on film and theology. She has been a regular speaker at the Greenbelt Festival.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/lastest-lineup-announcements-greenbelt-2016/|title=Latest lineup announcements for GB16|date=22 March 2016|website=Greenbelt.org.uk|accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref> A fuller list of lectures can be found on the author's webpage.<ref name="storkey.info">{{cite web|url=http://www.storkey.info/|title=storkey.com|website=Storkey.info|accessdate=1 May 2019|archive-date=9 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809032513/http://storkey.info/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Many lectures, including archived ones, are on video and available publicly on social media.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djXWm_6JI2Y and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho1gizi7NmM</ref> She has been a member of the Emerging Markets Symposium,<ref name="storkey.info"/> and The Power Shift Forum for Women in the World Economy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/about-us/people|title=People finder - Saïd Business School|website=Sbs.ox.ac.uk|accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref> In 2025 she was made a Life Member of [[Newnham College]] SCR.
Storkey has lectured across the world, including in Haiti, India, Nepal, Turkey and Ethiopia, and is a prominent feminist evangelical. Her writings have brought a biblical perspective to the feminist movement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newbold.ac.uk/article.php?id=362 |title=Newbold College: Article |website=Newbold.ac.uk |accessdate=18 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002010353/http://www.newbold.ac.uk/article.php?id=362 |archivedate=2 October 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref> She is concerned to highlight the [[effects of climate change|impact of climate change]] and global poverty,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/browse/354/377/3792/3/2 |title=''The Baptist Times'' (May 8, 2008) |website=Exacteditions.com |date=8 May 2008 |accessdate=18 October 2011}}</ref> as well as of sexual violence, on women. She has visited many African countries and been involved in advocacy, with strong links to Heal Africa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.healafrica.org/ |title=HEAL Africa |website=www.healafrica.org |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051221084715/http://www.healafrica.org/ |archive-date=21 December 2005 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Her widely acclaimed book ''Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women'' was published in November 2015.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Storkey |first1=Elaine |title=The art of the reviewer |url=https://www.elainestorkey.com/the-art-of-the-reviewer/ |date=November 24, 2015|website=Elaine Storkey}}</ref> The second edition, published by IVP Academic in the US in 2018, won the ''Christianity Today'' Book of the Year Award 2019, for Politics and Public Life.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/january-february/christianity-today-2019-book-awards.html|title=Christianity Today's 2019 Book Awards|last1=|last2=|date=11 December 2018|website=ChristianityToday.com|accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref>
==Awards and honours== Storkey was given a lifetime achievement award for services to women by the American group CBE in 2008, and in 2013 her alma mater, [[Aberystwyth University]], honoured her with a University Fellowship.<ref name="auto"/> In April 2016 she received the Abraham Kuyper Prize from Princeton Theological Seminary, in recognition of her work as a scholar, writer and journalist.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ptsem.edu/indexmobile.aspx?id=25769810025 |title=Princeton Theological Seminary |accessdate=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160429180357/http://www.ptsem.edu/indexmobile.aspx?id=25769810025 |archivedate=29 April 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
==Personal life== Alan and Elaine Storkey have three sons and six grandchildren. [[Amos Storkey|Amos James]] m. Helen Shelley 1994, Matthew Emmanuel Milton (1974) m. Annie Watson 1999, Caleb Alexander Titus (1977). The grandchildren are five grandsons and a granddaughter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/amos/|title=Amos Storkey|website=Homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk|accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref>
==Published works== ;Books * ''What's Right with Feminism'', SPCK, 1985 * ''Mary's Story, Mary's Song'', Harper-Collins, 1993 * ''Magnify the Lord'', HarperCollins, 1996 * ''The Search for Intimacy'', Hodder Headline, 1994 * ''Conversations on Christian Feminism'', with Margaret Hebblethwaite, Harper-Collins, 1999 * ''Created or Constructed: The Great Gender Debate'', Paternoster Press, 2000 * ''The Origins of Difference'', Baker Book House, 2002 * ''Word on the Street'', Old Hall Press, 2005 * ''Scars Across Humanity'', SPCK, November 2015 revised 2018 * ''Women in a Patriarchal World'', SPCK, April 2020 * ''Meeting God in Matthew'', SPCK, 2022.
;Other publications * "The Production of Social Divisions", ''Social Sciences: A Foundation'', Open University Press, 1985. * "Sex and Sexuality in the Church", ''Mirror to the Church'', Editor Monica Furlong, SPCK, 1986. * ''Faith in the Countryside, Report of the Archbishops', Commission on Rural Areas'', co-author, 1990 * "Modernity and Anthropology", in Philip Sampson, Vinay Samuel and Chris Sugden (eds), ''Faith and Modernity'', Lynx, 1994 * "Dooyeweerd's Anthropology – The Male-Female Dimension", in [[Sander Griffioen]], Bert M. Balk (eds), ''Christian Philosophy at the Close of the Twentieth Century, Assessment and Perspective'', Uitgeverij kok Kampen, 1995 * "Sexuality and Spirituality", in David Torrance, ''Family, Sexuality and Spirituality'', Hansel Press, 1997 * "A Commentary – New Testament Study Bible", with Catherine Kroeger and Mary Evans, CUP, 2002 * "Theology and Gender", in ''A Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology'', CUP, 2008. * "Religion and Sustainability in Global Perspective" in ''Sustainability in Crisis'', edit Colin Bell, Wordpress 2013
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==External links== * {{Official website}} * {{Cite web |url=http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/org/GCF/static/Elaine_Storkey_CV.pdf |title=Independent CV |access-date=20 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070127140619/http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/org/GCF/static/Elaine_Storkey_CV.pdf |archive-date=27 January 2007 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} * [http://www.storkey.info/ storkey.info - The Homepage for Elaine and Alan Storkey.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721233833/http://www.storkey.info/ |date=21 July 2011 }}
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