Editing Wycliffe Hall, Oxford (section)

===Recent developments===
Two significant new programmes were launched in the early years of the new century; SCIO (Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford) in 2002; and OCCA (the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics) in 2005. SCIO is run in partnership with the [[Council for Christian Colleges and Universities]] (CCCU) whilst OCCA is operated by the [[RZIM]] Zacharias Trust. Both programmes brought dozens of students to the hall each year, which SCIO continues to do, though the hall's relationship with OCCA was discontinued in 2019.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}  
 
Wycliffe became a focus of media attention in 2007 when a significant number of the academic staff left, including the vice-principal and head of pastoral theology. Three former principals wrote to the chair of the Hall Council to protest about the way staff complaints of being bullied were ignored.<ref>Stephen Bates, Theological College's Head is undermining it, says Predecessors, ''The Guardian'', 14 June 2007</ref> The crisis continued as a member of the council also resigned, having no confidence in the Chair of Council, Bishop [[James Jones (bishop)|James Jones]].<ref>Crisis continues at Wycliffe Hall as Council member resigns. The controversy over Oxford theological college Wycliffe Hall has taken another dramatic turn after a council member resigned this week, saying she had serious concerns over the response of the hall to allegations of bullying and intimidation. Daniel Blake, 5 October 2007, ''Christian Today''</ref> The issues became public as members of the academic faculty lodged grievances against the principal, [[Richard Turnbull (theologian)|Richard Turnbull]], for bullying.<ref>Eeva John., Geoff Maughan and David letters, Wenham, #Church of England Newspaper# 28 September 2007</ref> After monitoring by the university, senior academics at Oxford complained that the curriculum was narrow and offered students insufficient intellectual development.<ref>{{cite news|author=Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/aug/11/highereducation.religion |title="gives warning to theological college", ''The Guardian'', 11 August 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian|date=11 August 2007 |access-date=31 May 2013}}</ref> That year the bishop and the hall were taken to an employment tribunal and admitted breaking the law. In 2009 the hall was inspected by the Bishops' Inspection: it was commended in some departments but the inspectors expressed "no confidence" in its practical and pastoral theology.<ref>Dave Walker, www.churchtimes.co.uk/blog_post.asp?id</ref><ref>Pat Ashworth, ''Church Times'', 20 March 2009.</ref> Shortly after, the bishop, James Jones, resigned as chair. In May 2012, under a new chair, the Bishop of Chester, the principal was given leave of absence and he stepped down the following month. Late in 2012 the hall began advertising for a new principal who could offer "wide and generous understanding of the major trends in contemporary Anglican evangelicalism, together with high level pastoral skills". In December 2012 it was announced that [[Mike Hill (bishop)|Mike Hill]], Bishop of Bristol, had become chair of the Hall Council.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wycliffehall.org.uk/press-releases/appointment-of-chair-of-council#.UMI476y0PTo |title=Appointment of Chair of Council |publisher=Wycliffe Hall |date=7 December 2012 |access-date=31 May 2013}}</ref> The process of appointment of a new principal stalled in January 2013: the Hall Council considered that five candidates were "of real quality" but that none of them offered "the desired balance of skills and attributes" required.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wycliffehall.org.uk/press-releases/hall-council-statement-appointment-of-principal#.USJ2GvLsw8p |title=Statement from the Hall council on the appointment of the Principal of Wycliffe Hall |access-date=31 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323002549/http://www.wycliffehall.org.uk/press-releases/hall-council-statement-appointment-of-principal |archive-date=23 March 2013 }}</ref>

[[File:WH_service_at_SANO.jpg|thumb|right|[[Michael Lloyd (priest)|Michael Lloyd]] leading a Wycliffe Hall start-of-year service at the hall's parish church]] In April 2013 the hall announced that [[Michael Lloyd (priest)|Michael Lloyd]], Chaplain of [[Queen's College, Oxford]], had been appointed as principal,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wycliffehall.org.uk/press-releases/new-principal |title=Appoints New Principal |publisher=Wycliffe Hall |date=15 April 2013 |access-date=31 May 2013}}</ref> and he took up the position in the middle of the year and has been creatively expanding the hall and looking to increase the numbers of female ordinands.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wycliffehall.org.uk/ministerial-training |title=Female Ordinand Mentoring |publisher=Wycliffe Hall |access-date=27 February 2019}}</ref>

The small cohorts of first-degree undergraduates which Wycliffe accepted from 1997 onwards were phased out in the mid-2010s and, aside from SCIO, the hall now only takes mature students (over 21s).