The Rt Revd Dr Steven Croft became Bishop of Oxford in 2016 and was previously the Bishop of Sheffield.  He has been a member of the House of Lords since 2013, a member of the Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence until 2020, a member of the Board of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation until 2021 and appointed to the Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee in 2021. 

Co-author of Emmaus: the way of faith (1996-2003), and one of four lead authors of the Pilgrim resource to help adults explore faith. He is author of a number of books including Ministry in Three Dimensions (1999 and 2008), The Gift of Leadership: According to the Scriptures (2016) and Rooted and Grounded, faith formation and the Christian Tradition (2019).  His most recent book is Comfortable Words: a call to restoration: Reflections on Isaiah 40–55 (March 2021) Bishop Steven’s blog is at https://blogs.oxford.anglican.org