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- ↑ Smith, M. 'A foundation of influence: The Oxford Pastorate and elite recruitment in early 20th-century Anglican evangelicalism'. In Lovegrove, Deryck W. (ed.), The rise of the laity in evangelical Protestantism (London: Routledge, 2002), pages 202–214, quotation from page 210.
- ↑ Thomson, G.I.F, The Oxford Pastorate. The First Half Century, London: The Canterbury Press, 1946, pages 144–145.
- ↑ The Oxford Pastorate, The Pastorate in the Present: Graduate Ministry, http://www.oxfordpastorate.org/thepastorateinthepresentgraduateministry.htm
- ↑ UK Christian Book Award Winners, 2008.
- ↑ The Oxford Pastorate, Team, http://www.oxfordpastorate.org/team.htm