Wayne Clarke is a broadcaster and Baptist minister. He was a pioneer of Christian radio in Britain, and for the last eleven years has been working for BBC Local Radio, producing and presenting the Sunday morning programme, Daybreak on BBC Radio Merseyside.
In those years he has won the Andrew Cross Award as “Religious Broadcaster of the Year”, and established Daybreak as the most-listened to “religion” programme on local radio anywhere in the country. His place in his adopted home of Merseyside was confirmed when the Liverpool Echo named him as one of the “Scouserati”, one of the people of greatest influence in the city.
Wayne is also the minister at Dovedale Baptist Church in Liverpool. He has degrees in English, Philosophy and Theology and is working on a book about the church in Victorian Liverpool.
Wayne is married to Val, who manages a Christian bookshop, and they have two teenagers who are both students in the North West. Wayne likes to sing and makes music and has a passion for the history and traditions of the Christmas season.
Wayne is very active in what the BBC still quaintly calls “New Media”. He writes for the BBC website and runs a popular church website. He’s active on Facebook and tweets as @wayneaclarke. His blog at wayneclarke.org is sadly under-used.
Wayne is a “public Christian”, and the seminar stream he is leading at digimanc will explore being a Christian in the public domain, and how life in the public eye can limit what we are able to say. The session will also be reflecting on values of honesty and integrity in the persona we adopt in our tweets and status updates.
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