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Eternity News
''Eternity'' is an Australian Christian media service that produces a bi-annual magazine and a daily online publication. Published by Bible Society Australia, ''Eternity'' is interdenominational, and is not affiliated with any particular church. After decades as Art Director at Fairfax Media, John Sandeman, a Sydney Anglican, and Christian entrepreneur David Maegraith founded ''Eternity''. Having become part of the Bible Society Australia group in 2011, ''Eternity'' shifted away from news reporting in 2022, under new leadership. The ''Eternity'' magazine is printed bi-annually with a circulation of about 100,000, while ''Eternity'' online publishes articles daily. Thonline formathas seven main content categories: # Australia # Faith stories # Good news # In depth # Opinion # Culture # World History In 2009, David Maegraith and John Sandeman discussed a desire to address what they perceived as unfair mainstream media coverage of Christianity, as well as disunity within the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Media
Christian media refers to media that is Christian, or refers to various aspects of Christian demographic. As a genre its conventions originated in sermons, Christian literature, literature, and gospel music, and it has been adapted into Christian film industry, film, Christian radio, radio, Christian video game, video games, and contemporary music. Christian literature Christian books, a segment of Christian media which typically communicates the core elements of the Christian faith to non-believers, or publishes books to help develop and inform the beliefs of adherents. Examples include '' Gospel Light'', whose focus is on Children's Christian Education, Plough Publishing, '' Concordia Publishing House'' and '' David C. Cook.'' Some traditional Christian publishers are converting to online publishing. As evangelicals don't have a central authority, publishers and bookstores are de facto gatekeepers of theology. Christian literature is a vast and diverse body of writing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Anderson (Australian Politician)
John Duncan Anderson (born 14 November 1956) is an Australian politician and commentator who served as the 11th deputy prime minister of Australia and leader of the National Party from 1999 to 2005. He also served as Minister for Primary Industries and Energy Minister for Transport and Regional Development in the Howard government. As a government minister and later deputy prime minister, Anderson had cabinet responsibility for primary industry policy, including transport infrastructure and agricultural water rights. He was a member of Australia's National Security Committee from 1999 to 2005 when it faced the War on terror, in particular the Bali bombings. After politics, Anderson has been published for his views on civic freedoms, global food security, modern slavery and the economy. In 2017 he launched a web-based interview program, ''Conversations with John Anderson'', featuring interviews with public intellectuals. In this role he has advocated for many socially cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Christian Lobby
The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) is a Christian-conservative advocacy organisation based in Canberra. Structure The ACL is registered as a public company limited by guarantee and files political expenditure returns with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC). Funding comes mostly from individuals but names are not disclosed by the organisation. It has no political affiliation and states it supports Christian values regarding faith. Eternity House, the Deakin, Australian Capital Territory, headquarters of ACL, is registered as a separate not-for-profit entity. Staff Jim Wallace was the managing director of ACL from 2000 to 2013. Lyle Shelton was managing director from 2013 to 2018. Martyn Iles was appointed managing director in 2018. 3 The company has a self-appointed board of management – board members are invited to join by existing board members. Board members are not elected by members. ACL is represented in each state with state directors operating out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youthworks College
Youthworks College is an Australian Bible college based at Moore College in Newtown, New South Wales. It offers diplomas for those interested in children's and youth ministry through the Australian College of Theology. Youthworks College is a ministry of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney The Diocese of Sydney is a diocese in Sydney, within the Province of New South Wales of the Anglican Church of Australia. The majority of the diocese is evangelical and low church in tradition. The diocese goes as far as Lithgow in the wes .... Youthworks College was founded in 1999 and offers the Year13 theology course for school leavers and a three year diploma of Theology. The principal is Rev Dr Bill Salier. References External links * Seminaries and theological colleges in New South Wales Bible colleges Anglican Diocese of Sydney Educational institutions established in 1999 Australian College of Theology 1999 establishments in Australia {{Australia-university-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scots College (Sydney)
The Scots College is an independent primary and secondary day and boarding school for boys, predominantly located in , an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church of Australia. Established in 1893 at , Scots has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1,800 students aged from three to eighteen, including 250 boarders. The college is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia, the Junior School Heads Association of Australia, the Australian Boarding Schools' Association, the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, and is a founding member of the Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales. History The college was formed in 1893 by three men, Archibald Gilchrist, William "Fighting Mac" Dill-Macky, and Arthur Aspinall. Gilchrist devised the school motto of ''"Utinam Patribus Nostris Digni Simus"'', which may be translated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre For Public Christianity
The Centre for Public Christianity (CPX) is an Australian not-for-profit media company that supplies mainstream media and the general public with material about the relevance of Christianity in the 21st century. The Centre has no denominational affiliation and seeks to represent historic Christianity as defined by the Nicene Creed. History CPX was established in 2007. John Dickson and Greg J Clarke were its first directors, with Richard Grellman Chairman. Initial funding from Mission Australia helped get the venture started. After support from Hammond Care, CPX signed a memorandum of understanding with Bible Society Australia. Simon Smart has Executive Director since 2018. Activities Writers from CPX have contributed articles to ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', ''The Age'', and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). CPX has an online resource library featuring interviews with writers, scholars and commentators. CPX releases a weekly 'Life & Faith' podcast. CPX runs th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voice Of The Martyrs
The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to defend the human rights of persecuted Christians. History The organization was founded in 1967 by Richard Wurmbrand, a Lutheran priest, and Romanian of Jewish descent who spent fourteen years in a Communist prison for his Christian faith in the Socialist Republic of Romania, which held a policy of state atheism. The US organization today is a $50 million ministry providing practical and spiritual assistance to persecuted Christians in 68 countries. In 2016, VOM-USA completed more than 1,500 ministry projects, providing help to more than 5 million people. There are a number of Voice of the Martyrs organizations around the world. Each mission is autonomous (and not all use the "Voice of the Martyrs" name), but they cooperate through the International Christian Association (ICA). While each country's mission has its own focus and management, they also cooperate through the ICA by sharing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Jensen
Phillip David Jensen (born 1945) is an Australian cleric of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney and the former Dean of St Andrew's Cathedral. He is the brother of Peter Jensen, the former Anglican Archbishop of Sydney. Early life and conversion Jensen spent the early years of his life living at Bellevue Hill, a suburb in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. His first public statement of faith came at a Billy Graham crusade in 1959. He married his wife Helen in 1969. Education and ministry Jensen studied theology at Moore Theological College from 1967 to 1970 and won the Hey Sharp prize for coming first in the Licenciate of Theology (ThL), the standard course of study at that time. In the years just after his graduation from Moore College, Jensen worked at St Matthew's Manly and with John Chapman at the Department of Evangelism (now known as Evangelism and New Churches). Jensen became Anglican chaplain to the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 1975 and Rector of St Matthias' Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Hill (theologian)
Graham Joseph Hill (born 8 July 1969) is an Australian theologian who is a former associate professor of the University of Divinity. Since 2024, he works as a mission catalyst for the Uniting Church in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Hill is a research associate with the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton, Massachusetts, US, and an associate professor and research fellow at Charles Sturt University. Hill is the author or editor of eighteen theological books. His research focuses on World Christianity but he is also known for his work on biblical egalitarianism and women theologians of global Christianity. He has published in the areas of missiology, applied theology, Christian spirituality and global and ecumenical approaches to missional ecclesiology. Education In addition to undergraduate studies, Hill completed a Master of Theology degree at the University of Notre Dame Australia, and a Doctor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Steele
Dominic Steele is an Australian Anglican minister. He is the senior minister of Village Church, Annandale, New South Wales, and works at Christians in the Media. He was formerly a radio journalist and presenter on radio stations 2UE and 2WS. He continued as a news editor in radio and became involved in Anglican churches in Sydney, though he had been raised a Roman Catholic. He later began studying theology at Moore Theological College and was ordained to the Anglican ministry. He is the author and presenter of the course ''Introducing God'', used as a tool by Sydney Anglicans and others for evangelism. Career After a start in community radio (2SER and 2RPH) Steele's commercial radio career began at 2MO Gunnedah as morning announcer. He switched to 2UE as a journalist in 1985 first covering police rounds, then rural news, then news editing. He was 2UE’s only journalist at the 1988 Olympic Games. Although he grew up Roman Catholic, Steele says it was while at 2UE that he was introd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Harris (biblical Scholar)
John W. Harris is an Australian Bible translator and linguist known for his works on aboriginal Christianity and creoles. He is one of the first scholars who provided a detailed account of Australian creoles. In 1986, he was Senior Lecturer in Education at Darwin Institute of Technology. He received a Lambeth Degree from the Archbishop of Canterbury The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the Primus inter pares, ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the diocese of Canterbury. The first archbishop ... in 2010. Books * 1986. ''Northern Territory pidgins and the origin of Kriol''. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics * 1994, ''One Blood: 200 Years Of Aboriginal Encounter With Christianity'' (revised edition), Albatross Books, Sydney. * 1998, ''We wish we’d done more: ninety years of CMS and Aboriginal issues in north Australia'', Openbook, Adelaide. References External linksOn a Miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Bird (theologian)
Michael F. Bird (born 18 November 1974) is an Australian New Testament scholar, theologian and Anglican priest. Life and career Bird served in the Australian military, where he discovered his faith. After becoming a Christian he was firstly a Baptist, then a Presbyterian and now an Anglican. He has been called by the ecumenical media platform Eternity a "heavy hitter" in the world of New Testament scholarship and Jesus's divinity. Bird is vice principal and lecturer in theology and New Testament at Ridley College, having previously taught at the Brisbane School of Theology and Highland Theological College. He studied at Malyon College and the University of Queensland. He has also been a Distinguished Research Professor of Theology at Houston Christian University. Bird has written a number of books, including ''The New Testament in Its World'' (2019, with N. T. Wright), ''Evangelical Theology: A Biblical and Systematic Introduction'' (2013) and ''The Gospel of the Lord: How th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
