Karen E. Smith, BA MDiv DPhil (Oxon), Tutor in Church History and Spirituality
Karen Smith has been teaching at the South Wales Baptist College since 1991, and is the pastor of Orchard Place Baptist Church in Neath. She was brought up in Georgia (U.S.A.) and graduated from Mercer University in Macon and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. She then went to Oxford University where she did research on eighteenth century Baptist life. Dr Smith has written a number of articles and contributed to scholarly works on Baptist history and spirituality. She is a retreat leader and a regular contributor to BBC radio. She is married to Paul Harris and they have two children, Taylor and Caleb.