My name is Richard Seel. I'm a priest in the Church of England, ordained deacon in 2004 and priest in 2005. I now serve as Associate Vicar in the Chet Valley Benefice in South Norfolk and lead Xpressions Cafe, a fresh expression of church. it is a good place to be.

My passion is to help people (including myself) to find ways of being church in the 21st century and to discover how we can be the kingdom community to which Jesus called us.

I studied physics and maths at college (not very successfully but I've retained a love of physics and astronomy). After a serendipitous encounter with making home movies I ended up for the next twenty years at the BBC as a film editor, specialising in documentaries. I still make movies, mainly for church and I've gathered some other examples of good film making on this site. After that I spent another nine years in the BBC as a manager.

In 1996 I left the BBC and started life as a freelance organisation consultant. I studied at Ashridge Management College and received an MSc in Organization Consulting from there in 1999. I still work as a consultant and my particular interests are in organisation culture and complexity and emergence in organisations.

I've written some stuff, including an eight week course on 'Gospel & Western Culture', which I deliver to the third-year Reader students in the Diocese of Norwich and can be found here as C21hurch.