Mission Minded? Try Christian Education

Whether you’re an investment banker, a first home buyer, or on Gumtree trying to break into the second-hand bike market, you are searching for one thing: a high-value proposition. You want your dollar to work for you. You want ‘bang-for-buck.’ No one wants to spend a lot and get little in return. Yet, as many Christian workers look at their career, it can be discouraging. Opportunities to witness come infrequently; workplace cultures can be bleakly secular (even hostile). Even when gospel seed is diligently scattered, it seems to be landing on the path—a concrete path. Christian education should be part...

Paul Matthews

Christian Schools vs the State Religion of Sex

Steve McAlpine

When Education Comes Back Home: Parents as Teachers

Harriet Connor

We Harvest What We Sow

Murray Campbell

Our Godly Practices Matter

Graham Cole

Three Essentials for Reshaping Australian Theological Education

In a late-2018 article published in Eternity magazine, Michael Jensen described some of the challenges facing Australian theological colleges. In the closing paragraphs of the article he called for “a new vision … for theological education” and “some Spirit-led and courageous investigation of how God’s mission may best be served into the future.” I think his article was a timely one. The new challenges—and the new possibilities—of our time call for some creative and visionary thinking about the shape that theological education ought to take in the decades ahead. But, as Michael rightly acknowledges in the article, the new thinking...

Three Essentials for Reshaping Australian Theological Education

Why We Sent Our Children to Local State Schools

Fiona McLean

Schooling represents a significant, and perhaps increasingly fraught, area of choice for Christian parents. With worries about the advance of secularism on one hand and the dangers of over-protectiveness on the other, parents often worry whether they have made the right decision about how to educate their children. Here, as a follow-up to Emily Cobb’s reflection on the same topic, is another perspective from Fiona McLean The issue of where and how to educate our children is controversial, so I write with some trepidation. I know and respect Christians who have chosen to educate their children in Christian schools, in private...

Why We Sent Our Children to Local State Schools

Fiona McLean

Christian Parents and Educational Choices

Emily Cobb

Gather any group of Christian parents in a room to discuss education and fairly quickly lines are drawn...

Christian Parents and Educational Choices

Emily Cobb

Is There a Place for Women on a Theological College Faculty?

Mark Thompson

In recent days a conversation has taken place among complementarians and a few others about whether it is appropriate for a woman to serve on a theological college faculty (or in American terms, as a seminary professor). The catalyst was a response by John Piper to a question on his ‘Ask Pastor John’ podcast. John Piper, a highly respected evangelical leader in America with deep complementarian convictions, responded with basically a five point argument: The Bible teaches that churches should be led by ‘a team of spiritual humble, biblical qualified men’. The role of the seminary is to prepare men...