Lee read Modern History at New College, Oxford. After working for St. Ebbe’s Church in Oxford for a while, he was a student on the Cornhill Training Course in London, with a placement doing student work at All Soul’s, Langham Place.
From there he went on to read Theological & Pastoral Studies at Oak Hill Theological College in London, staying on for a fourth year to continue sadly unfinished masters research (M.Phil) into the Old Testament (intertextuality in Malachi).
After three years as the Curate of St. Botolph’s, Barton Seagrave and St. Edmund’s, Warkton, for more than five years Lee was the Associate Minister of St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate in the City of London with responsibility for the Sunday Morning congregation and midweek groups as well as the delightful members of the Church Family staff team, and Reform London. While in London he also completed a ThM in Historical and Systematic Theology with Westminster Theological Seminary in the USA. He is currently doing research on 17th century biblical interpretation at Peterhouse and Tyndale House, Cambridge (where he has also been awarded the Lightfoot Scholarship). To find out more about this and to support us in prayer (or financially) contact Anne Custance at the6.19project@googlemail.com.
Lee is married to Kerry and they have three children. In addition to editing an internet journal called Theologian, he is privileged to serve as a member of the Latimer Trust Theological Work Group, to be Review Editor of the journal Churchman, and a part of the Fellowship of Word and Spirit. From October 2011 he is also Visiting Lecturer in Church History at Wales Evangelical School of Theology (www.west.org.uk).
To relax, Lee greatly enjoys reading Tom Clancy novels, listening to New Order and Handel, watching sci-fi and spy-fi, and revelling in the genius of Manchester United (having lived 10 minutes from Old Trafford for many years). Sadly, his extended family supports Manchester City! He used to write songs such as Better Time and One Way Street, and his main claim to fame is that his brother Dean was once an actor (appearing for example in this Nat West advert).
Gatiss is pronounced Gate-iss and definitely not Gatt-is. If you can pronounce it with a Northern English accent you get extra brownie points. And the spelling is one tea, with two sugars. Lee also blogs with others over at Meet the Puritans.
