Revd Stephen Sizer

Stephen is the founder and director of Peacemaker Trust, a registered charity dedicated to peacemaking, especially where minorities are persecuted, justice is denied, human rights are suppressed, or reconciliation is needed.

Stephen served for 35 years as an Anglican priest, most recently vicar of Virginia Water until his retirement in 2017. He is now Bishop’s Chaplain to the Right Revd Riah Abu El Assal, the retired Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem.

Stephen is chair of the Convivencia Alliance, a cross-faith, international initiative for a just peace in the Middle East, and in particular, a just coexistence in Palestine/Israel based on equal rights in One Democratic State (ODS).

Stephen is coordinator for the 2024 Sabeel International Conference on Religious Extremism.  Stephen is also a member of the Kairos for Global Justice Theology Group.

Stephen was awarded an MTh from Oxford University in 1994. His thesis examined the Ethical Management of Pilgrimages to the Holy Land. In 2004, he was awarded a PhD by Middlesex University. His thesis examined the historical roots, theological basis and political consequences of Christian Zionism in Britain and the USA from 1820. In 2024 he received the ‘Courage Award’ for his campaigning for Palestinian rights from Mardin Atuklu University in Turkey.

He is the author of three books, In the Footsteps of Jesus and the Apostles, (Eagle, 2004) Christian Zionism: Roadmap to Armageddon (IVP, 2004) and Zion’s Christian Soldiers: The Bible, Israel and the Church (IVP, 2007) – now published by Wipf & Stock. His books have been translated into Arabic, Farsi, Korean and Spanish.