Dr Selina Stone

Dr Selina Stone is a theologian and religious scholar committed to producing and sharing knowledge that contributes to liberation, justice and healing. Her professional work is informed by her roots, growing up as a Black girl in a loving working-class family in inner-city Birmingham, and in her Black Pentecostal church. Both contexts provided her with an instinctive concern for the vulnerable and overlooked and the motivation to think critically about faith and spirituality. 

As a community organiser, she worked to tackle exploitative lending to communities in socio-economic precarity. As a lecturer, she brought public issues and marginalised voices to the centre of theological education. She is currently working at Durham University to diversify and decolonise theological education and ministry training in the UK. She is a sought-after speaker, preacher, writer and advisor for those working in the sectors of faith, charity and theological education.

Dr Selina Stone

Dr Selina Stone is Lecturer in Theology, Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Divinity. Prior to this, she was Postdoctoral Research Associate in Theological Education at Durham University with a focus on EDI and belonging. Her first academic monograph The Spirit and the Body: Towards a Womanist Pentecostal Social Justice Ethic was published by Brill in 2023. Dr Stone’s BA and PhD are both from the University of Birmingham (2010, 2021) and her MA in Theology, Politics and Faith-based Organisations, is from King’s College London (2014). Her wide-ranging research interests include womanist ethics; inequalities/oppressions, violence and power; Pentecostalism and pneumatology; and holistic/communal well-being.
Dr Selina Stone is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Theological Education at Durham University with a focus on decolonisation. Her first academic monograph The Spirit and the Body: Towards a Womanist Pentecostal Social Justice Ethic will be published by Brill/Schöningh in 2023. Dr Stone’s BA and PhD are both from the University of Birmingham (2010, 2021) and her MA in Theology, Politics and Faith-based Organisations was obtained from King’s College London (2014). Her wide-ranging research interests include theological ethics; Pentecostalism and Black spiritualities; power and abuse in Christian contexts; and social justice and wellbeing.