Rev Dr Tim Judson

Rev Dr Tim Judson is a Research Fellow of Blackfriars Hall and part of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice. Previously, Tim was Lecturer in Ministerial Formation at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. He is a Baptist Minister and has served as a church pastor in Wolverhampton, Guildford, Devon and Buckinghamshire. In 2024, Tim presented the annual Whitley Lectureship where he disseminated his research on the subject of race and Whiteness. He is one of the few White members of the national racial justice hub for Baptists Together, and is the pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Chesham, where he lives.

Tim’s main areas of interest include the theology and ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Black theology, Critical Whiteness studies, theologies of compassion, and the integration of visceral and cerebral modes of learning for Christian formation.

Tim is a singer songwriter who has had opportunities to write and learn through experiences overseas, including in Uganda, Rwanda, Israel/Palestine, Thailand, Peru, Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand). His academic work, preaching and songwriting are integral to his passionate exploration of becoming more human alongside others.

Select Publications:

The White Bonhoeffer: A Postcolonial Pilgrimage (London: SCM, 2025);
Bonhoeffer and the Voice of the Other: Critical Essays on Bonhoeffer’s Theology in a World of Struggle, edited with Anthony G. Reddie and Alison Walker (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2025);
Dark Weeping and Light Sleeping: Whiteness as a Doctrine of De-Formation (Oxford: Whitley, 2024);
Awake in Gethsemane: Bonhoeffer and the Witness of Christian Lament (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2023).

‘Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christological Interpretation of the Penitential Psalms,’ in The Penitential Psalms: The Rise, Fall and Future of the Seven Psalms, edited by Mark Whiting (Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2026, forthcoming);
‘Traumatising Whiteness: The Struggle of Re-Imagining White Masculinity,’ in For Nothing is Hidden: Masculinities and Trauma in Church and Theology, edited by Will Rose-Moore (London: SCM, 2026, forthcoming);
‘Christological Confrontation: Why Christ “for others” must be Christ “for everyone,”’ in Bonhoeffer and the Voice of the Other: Critical Essays on Bonhoeffer’s Theology in a World of Struggle, edited by Anthony G. Reddie, Alison Walker and Tim Judson (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2025, forthcoming);
‘Praying Vengeance as Loving Your Enemies?: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christological Creatureliness,’ in The Shiloh Project: Rape Culture, Religion and the Bible, edited by Caroline Blyth, Emily Colgan, Chris Greenough, Johanna Stiebert (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2025, forthcoming);
‘Amber-tinted spectacles: learning to live with lament,’ in Voicing New Questions for Baptist Identity, edited by Eleasah Roberts and Andy Goodliff (Oxford: Regents, 2023), 197–225;
‘Mrs Ferguson,’ in Journeying to Justice, edited by Anthony Reddie, Wale Hudson-Roberts and Gale Richards, (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2017), 200–2.

‘The Three A’s of Racial Justice in Preaching,’ The Preacher; ‘Baptists and Bonhoeffer: A Conversation with Craig Gardiner, Tim Judson, and Andy Goodliff,’ JBTC 12 (2025): 31–57;
‘Why this book matters now: Ethics by Bonhoeffer’, Posted by SCM Press on 11 December 2024; ‘White on Black on White: the connection of Karl Barth and James H. Cone Dietrich Bonhoeffer,’ Black Theology 22, no. 3 (2024): 218–32;
‘Baptist (dis)unity and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s socio-doctrinal understanding of the Church,’ JBTC 9 (2023): 5–29;
‘A Christian form of Lament: theological reflections on the place of lament in the New Testament,’ BRF Guidelines 39, no. 1 (2023);
‘A word bleeding through the darkness,’ in The BRF Book of 365 Bible reflections, ed. Olivia Warburton and Karen Laister (Abingdon, BRF, 2021), 201;
‘A Christian form of Lament: theological reflections on the place of lament in the New Testament,’ BRF Guidelines 39, no. 1 (2023);
‘White Lament: reckoning with racism through repentance,’ Black Theology 20, no.3 (2022), 221–34;
‘A word bleeding through the darkness,’ in The BRF Book of 365 Bible reflections, ed. Olivia Warburton and Karen Laister (Abingdon, BRF, 2021), 201;
‘Responsibility: A reflection on our responsibility as White Christians in a world where George Floyd was murdered’ Posted by the Baptist Union of Great Britain Faith and Society Team on 15 October 2020.