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Rev. Helen Paynter, PhD

Rev. Helen Paynter, PhD is an accredited minister with the Baptist Union of Great Britain, and works as Tutor in Biblical Studies at the Bristol Baptist College. She is the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence. Her main research areas are the interpretation of biblical (especially Old Testament) violence, and the weaponisation of Scripture in a violent world. She has recently written Blessed are the Peacemakers: A biblical theology of human violence (Zondervan, 2023), and co-edited (with Maria Power) The Church, the Far Right, and the Claim to Christianity (SCM, 2024).