A Committee That Knows
the Cost of Standing Firm
Every member of our Executive Committee has a personal story — a moment when their faith put them in the crosshairs of their employer, their institution, or their profession. They did not choose the easy path. They stood. And through that experience, they came to understand both what is at stake for Christians in the workplace today, and what a difference the right support makes.
They are here because they want that support to exist for you.
GET TO KNOW US
The People Behind the
National Christian Trade Union
Rev. Dr Bernard Randall
President | Former School Chaplain | Ordained Church of England Minister
Bernard served as chaplain at an independent school with a Church of England ethos when he was dismissed — and secretly reported to the government’s counter-terrorism watchdog, Prevent — for a sermon he gave in the school chapel on freedom of belief and identity. His sermon reflected the Church of England’s own teaching on marriage. What followed was one of the most significant religious freedom cases in recent UK legal history — involving employment tribunals, a Church of England safeguarding blacklisting, and years of sustained institutional opposition.
In March 2025, after an appeal on thirteen grounds, a judge ruled the original tribunal unsafe due to anti-Christian bias — overturning the decision, ordering a retrial, and awarding costs. Bernard became President of NCTU because he believes no Christian worker should have to fight these battles without proper support.
Pastor Keith Waters
Executive Committee Member | Pastor | Evangelical Minister
Keith voluntarily took a 60% pay cut from a senior role at one of Cambridge University’s largest colleges to serve his local community — combining part-time work as a school caretaker with his calling as pastor of Ely New Connexions Church. After posting a tweet from his personal account warning Christians about Pride events, Keith and his family faced a campaign of harassment that included death threats. The school launched an investigation and forced him out of his role.
In April 2022, the Employment Tribunal ruled in Keith’s favour — finding that Christian ministers are free to express their biblical beliefs online without fear of losing their jobs. His case established an important precedent for every Christian who holds employment alongside their ministry.
Dr Aaron Edwards
Executive Committee Member | Theologian | Former Lecturer, Cliff College
Aaron is a theologian, academic, and father of six who spent seven years lecturing at an evangelical Bible college before being dismissed for misconduct over a single tweet defending orthodox Christian teaching on sexuality. The college threatened him with referral to Prevent, interrogated him on how he would pray for same-sex attracted students, and ultimately sacked him for “bringing the college into disrepute.” He lost his home, was hospitalised with stress-related cardiac symptoms, and has been unable to find full-time academic employment since.
In January 2026, at the Employment Appeal Tribunal, his legal team successfully secured the right to pursue additional grounds of appeal. Aaron joined the NCTU Executive Committee because he knows the cost of refusing to compromise — and wants every Christian facing that moment to have someone standing with them.
Gozen Soydag
Executive Committee Member | Former Pastoral Manager | Founder, Wife in the Waiting
Gozen worked as a Pastoral Manager at a Catholic secondary school in North London, supporting Year 10 students, when she was dismissed — on her birthday — after concerns were raised about her personal Instagram account. Her platform, followed by over 30,000 people, shared faith-based teaching on biblical marriage, identity, and the beauty of God’s design for women. The school told her that her Christian beliefs were “incompatible with the school’s ethos” — despite the school’s own mission statement citing the teachings of Jesus Christ. She was ordered to leave immediately, without pay, and without the chance to say goodbye to her students.
Gozen chose to stand firm. Her case has attracted national media attention and continues through the appeals process — a courageous challenge to the growing pressure on Christians to keep their faith hidden.
Dr Dermot Kearney
Executive Committee Member | Consultant Cardiologist | Former President, Catholic Medical Association (UK)
Dermot is a consultant cardiologist and NHS physician who, driven by compassion for women in crisis, began offering a treatment to help those who had taken the first abortion pill and immediately regretted it. The treatment gave women a fighting chance of saving their pregnancy when they had nowhere else to turn. The abortion industry responded with a coordinated campaign — bringing allegations to the General Medical Council that threatened to have him struck off the medical register entirely.
When he challenged the ban at the High Court, the GMC reversed its position — declaring there was no case to answer. Every allegation was dismissed. Thirty-two babies who might not have survived are alive today because Dermot held the line. He joined NCTU because he knows what it means to hold a conviction under professional pressure — and to have the courage, and the support, to see it through.
Felix Ngole
Executive Committee Member | Social Worker
Felix fled religious persecution in Cameroon and came to the United Kingdom — a country he had heard was a bastion of free speech and religious freedom. He trained as a social worker, dedicated his career to supporting vulnerable people, and held openly the biblical view of marriage. That belief cost him — twice. He was expelled from his social work course at the University of Sheffield for quoting the Bible on Facebook. He won at the Court of Appeal. He then scored highest of all candidates for his dream job as a mental health social worker — only to have the offer withdrawn when his employer discovered he was a Christian who believed in biblical marriage.
In February 2026, the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled in Felix’s favour — finding that dismissing him for his Christian beliefs was not capable of justification. His fight continues to the Court of Appeal. Felix joined NCTU because he is determined that no other Christian should face what he has faced — without support.
‘Hannah’
Executive Committee Member | Primary School Teacher
Hannah is known publicly only by this name following a court-imposed anonymity order, which she is currently appealing.
Hannah is a primary school teacher with a lifelong career in education who was dismissed — and threatened with a permanent ban from teaching — for doing what she believed every teacher is duty-bound to do: raise a safeguarding concern about a child in her care. When an eight-year-old child was being guided through a social gender transition without medical evidence, Hannah raised her concerns — with the headteacher, the governors, and the local authority. Each time, she was ignored. When she pursued a judicial review to force the matter to be heard, the school dismissed her for gross misconduct.
Her case has since been marked by repeated incidents of apparent bias from tribunal panel members, a collapsed first hearing, and a court order forcing Hannah to remain anonymous for the rest of her life under threat of imprisonment. She is appealing that order and her dismissal. She joined NCTU because she knows what it costs to speak up for a child when every institution around you refuses to listen.
