Preacher: The Rev’d Canon Dr Jessica Martin, Residentiary Canon, Ely Cathedral

Jessica Martin is Residentiary Canon for Education and Outreach at Ely Cathedral. Before that she spent six years in parish ministry in South Cambridgeshire following an academic career as Fellow in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. She specialises in seventeenth century religious writing and early biography and has written about Izaak Walton, about devotional practices in early modern England, and about parish ministry and its challenges. She is completing a book on the nature of desire in the dedicated Christian life.