Since 2008 I’ve been on the faculty of Morling College, the Baptist Theological College of NSW & ACT, and more recently, WA. In July 2023 I became the Principal.

If you’re interested in studying with us, let me briefly introduce the college. You can look at our official statement of beliefs here, but what it boils down to is that we’re  an evangelical college, strongly committed to the core beliefs of the gospel, while accommodating a diversity of views on “disputable matters.”

In Sydney, we’re located in Macquarie Park, right next door to Macquarie University, in an area of Sydney rapidly becoming an IT hub. In Perth, you can find us in Bentley, over the road from Curtin University.  Some of our students live on campus, but we have many who commute to the college on lecture days/evenings. Others will livestream in to class so they can interact with the lecturer and on campus students in real time. And many more will study on their own schedule via our online learning materials, across Australia and in other parts of the world. Courses are flexible, allowing for part-time study.

The Bible & Theology faculty, in which I teach, is the oldest. As well as training women and men for pastoral ministry in Baptist churches – the original reason we were founded – we also equip people for local and overseas mission, and to be effective lay people in their churches and informed believers in the secular workforce. Around half our students identify as “Baptists,” but we have students from a range of denominations.

But that’s only a third of the story.

We resource not just churches, but the Christian schools movement, too. Those looking to become teachers can undertake their Initial Teacher Education with us, apprenticing as they go with connected Christian schools. Experienced teachers can take the next step with our Masters programmes in Education and Educational Leadership.

And I’ve saved our fastest-growing faculty until last: Counselling, Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care. It focuses on equipping Christians to have an impact in the important areas of mental health, professional and pastoral supervision, and spiritual care.

You can visit the college website for all the details.

I should put here the disclaimer that the Bible study notes on this site are my own, and are not necessarily the views or theological positions of Morling College. But where the college does have an official position, I would hope that the notes are consistent with it!