Honorary PhD

Not bad from a boy from the Welsh Valleys with little academic achievement.

When I consider everything that has happened in my life, it's been so far an incredible adventure, powered by God.

I had no idea when I left school that I might be travelling to 50 countries, 300+ trips. Meeting so many people and cultures. That I would hold a directorship at the UK's largest Christian broadcaster. That I would raise and spend (£200 million+) so much money across so many projects in this (at the time of writing, 32 years of ministry.

God never does anything by accident, and I more and more feel a privileged yet bewildered individual.

Back in June, the same week as I travelled to South Africa, I was awarded a Phd. I immediately felt a question: 'What had I done to deserve this?' Yet the pack turned up from the USA shortly before I left for South Africa.

This award has led me to do a PhD study relating to the relationship between Faith and AI, something which is fascinating to me.

Whatever I do or receive, I dedicate it to the people I have met, the folk who have no voice, to the least and the lost, that they might all be blessed by and find Jesus along life's journey.