Ian is Managing Editor at Grove Books Ltd and Director of Partnership Development at St John's College, Nottingham, where he also teaches New Testament and hermeneutics. He is married to Maggie, who is a GP, and they have three children, Elizabeth, Benjamin and Rebecca. Before moving to St John's, he spent eight years on the staff of St Mary's, a town centre church in Poole, Dorset. He is a member of General Synod and the Church of England Evangelical Council, and is an inveterate chocoholic.