- Provost, Southwark Cathedral [Emeritus from 1994] (from 1983 to 1994)
- Dean of Norwich (from 1978 to 1982)
- Canon of Westminster Abbey and Rector, St Margaret’s, London (from 1970 to 1978)
- Fellow and Dean, King’s College, Cambridge (from 1966 to 1970)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1959 to 2018)
- Curate, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London (from 1958 to 1966)
- Curate, St John’s, Hampstead, London (from 1955 to 1958)
- Student Christian Movement of Great Britain and Ireland (from 1955 to 1966)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1952 to 1959)
- Undergraduate, Magdalen College, Oxford (from 1949 to 1952)
- Yes: A Positive Faith (Darton Longman and Todd, 2006)
- Poets and God (Darton Longman and Todd, 2005)
- What Anglicans Believe in the 21st Century (2002)
- The Church That Could Be (SPCK, 2002)
- John Donne: A Man Of Flesh And Spirit (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001)
- After Death?: Past Beliefs and Real Possibilities (Cassell, 1999)
- A Concise History of English Christianity: From Roman Britain to the Present Day (Fount, 1998)
- Christianity: the First Two Thousand Years (Continuum International Publishing Group, 1997)
- Chairman, Christian Aid (from 1971 to 1978)
- Chairman, Churches’ Council on Gambling (from 1970 to 1978)
- Priest (1955)
- Deacon (1954)