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Favorite authorsDietrich Bonhoeffer, Stanley J. Grenz, Richard B. Hays, Gerhard Lohfink, Alasdair MacIntyre, Lesslie Newbigin, Oliver O'Donovan, Charles Taylor, Miroslav Volf, Michael Walzer, N. T. Wright, John Howard Yoder (Shared favorites)

About meI currently work as Director of Public Theology for Australian Evangelical Alliance (www.ea.org.au).

I did my BA (Hons) in Politics, Philosophy and Sociology at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. My honours thesis, supervised by Dr Ian Barns, was "Seeking a Community of Promise: The Ethico-Political Priority of the Ekklesia in Postmodern Public Theology." It entailed a critical comparison of the work of John Howard Yoder, Oliver O'Donovan and William Cavanaugh, looking at how their respective visions of Christian community related to their understanding of social ethics, public theology or political theology.

I went on to do my M.Div through Ridley College (Anglican - Parkville VIC) and Morling College (Baptist - Eastwood NSW).

I am interested in ethics, philosophy, hermeneutics, biblical theology, and systematic theology. I am working on a Ph.D on a Christian philosophy of vocation. I hope to come back later to my work on theology of technology.

I have lectured at Harvest West Bible College in Ethics, Ecclesiology and Social and Cultural Trends; and guest lectured at Ridley College, Morling College, and Tabor College. Until its sad, recent closure, I lectured for Macquarie Christian Studies Institute at Macquarie University in Sydney (www.mcsi.edu.au).

For two years I was a student pastor at Trinity Chapel, Robert Menzies College; and have just finished working as a one day per week interim associate minister for Pennant Hills Baptist Church.

I'm a member of the Social Issues Committee for the Baptist Union of NSW and ACT, do similar work for the Baptist Union of Victoria, am a member of the Australian Public Theology Network, and am a NSW representative of the Anabaptist Association of Australia and New Zealand.

More important than all these things really: I am married to Libby (for 19 years) with 4 great kids: Danielle, Stephanie, Samantha and David.

About my libraryI have around 10,000+ books relating primarily to theology as well as philosophy and social and political theory. It has been collected over about 15 years.

Cataloguing is going to take quite some time... *sigh*

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