The Historians
Roger Green
Roger J. Green PhD, DD is Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies, and Chair of that department at Gordon College, Wenham Massachusetts.
He has spoken at Salvation Army conferences in numerous nations and been a member of the Army’s International Spiritual Life Commission as well as the International Doctrine Council.
Roger has authored Catherine Booth: A Biography of the Co-Founder of The Salvation Army published by Baker Book House, and The Life and Ministry of William Booth: The Founder of The Salvation Army, published by Abingdon.
Pamela Walker
Pamela Walker PhD is Professor of History at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests include religion in Britain, the history of adoption, and 19th Century missionary movements directed at British Jews and African American evangelicals in England. She is the author of Pulling the Devil’s Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain published by The University of California Press. She also co-edited Women Preachers and Prophets Through Two Millennia of Christianity.
Gordon Moyles
R. Gordon Moyles, PhD, FRSC, is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He taught in the Department of English and was, for some years, Associate Dean of Arts. His specialities were Bibliography and Methods of Research, Canadian Literature and Children’s Literature.
Gordon has written more than twenty books, but in his retirement has concentrated solely on the history of The Salvation Army and five of his most recent books have been on that organization. He is an active member of The Salvation Army and lives in retirement in Edmonton.
Gordon’s two most recent publications are Come Join Our Army: Historical Reflections on Salvation Army Growth, and I Knew William Booth: An Album of Remembrances, both published in the USA by Crest Books and available from Salvation Army Trade stores.
Dianne Winston
Diane Winston holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. A national authority on religion and the media, her expertise includes religion, politics and the news media as well as religion and the entertainment media. A journalist and a scholar, Winston’s current research interests are media coverage of Islam, religion and new media, and the place of religion in American identity.
Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. She currently writes about religion and media twice a week at http://uscmediareligion.org.
Her books have been Red Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army (Harvard, 1999), Faith in the Market: Religion and Urban Commercial Culture (Rutgers, 2003) and Small Screen, Picture: Lived Religion and Television (Baylor, 2009). Her current project looks at religion, the news media and American identity.
Glenn Horridge
Glenn K. Horridge PhD is the author of The Salvation Army: Origins and Early Days: 1865-1900. He was co-founder of The Christian Mission Historical Association. Glenn maintains a significant collection of early Salvation Army memorabilia.
Harry Williams
Commissioner Harry Williams OF, OBE, FRCS (Edin) has received The Salvation Army’s highest honour, the Order of the Founder, which recognises outstanding service which would ‘have been specially commended’ by William Booth.
With his wife, Eileen, Harry Williams served in India for 30 years, at four of The Salvation Army’s major hospitals, living among the people they were called to serve. The commissioner used his expertise in plastic surgery in particular to improve the lives of some of the country’s poorest people.
Harry Williams wrote Frederick Booth-Tucker: William Booth’s First Gentleman, published by Hodder & Stoughton. Now 95 years of age, he has just released his latest book, An Army Needs An Ambulance Corps: A History of The Salvation Army’s Medical Services, published by Salvation Books.
Kevin Ayres
Kevin is an IT project manager with the London Metropolitan Police Service. He is a local officer and bandsman at the Salvation Army Hendon Corps in northwest London.
Kevin’s first university degree, from Middlesex University, was in IT networking. He later earned a master’s degree from Birkbeck College, University of London, specialising in the history of London, and The Salvation Army’s early political activism and campaigns against the 19th century ‘white slave trade’ which culminated in the infamous Eliza Armstrong Case and a number of key amendments to British law, many of which stand to this day. Kevin continues to pursue his interest in London’s modern history.