My friend Peter Cruchley, who has died aged 59 of cancer, was a United Reformed Church minister in Cardiff over three decades. Later he went on to work for the Council for World Mission (CWM) in Singapore, where, among other things, he initiated what is now the Onesimus Project, dedicated to uncovering and addressing historical racial injustices, including involvement in slavery, in which the council in its previous identity as the London Missionary Society had been complicit.
He later became director of the commission on world mission and evangelism at the World Council of Churches in Switzerland, where he remained until his death. His writings on theology were widely published, including in the journal Practical Theology.
