Watch our previous Tinsley Lectures below...

• 2020

  The Disappearing Evangelist

  Presented by Steve Chong
  Tuesday 12th May 202018

  All around the church, we see pastors, teachers, and church planters, but where is the evangelist? In fact, what even is ‘the evangelist?’ Is it the preacher at a crusade, the leader of your church’s Alpha course or the person in the marketplace? How will the church enter this new decade keeping evangelism at the forefront?

  These are questions that Steve Chong, founding director of the RICE movement, believes the church should be asking in order to carry out its mission today. The church is at crossroads, there is a harvest waiting and a church unsure as to how to harvest it. Is it new methods we need, a return to old ones, or something else?

  Does the evangelistic rally still have a place in the Australian church today? In 2014, Eternity magazine even asked, “Is it time to give up on the big evangelistic rally?”

  Defying this trend is the phenomenal success of the RICE Movement. Since 2002 they have been bringing people together at their evangelistic rallies in Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland and Perth and now Sao Paulo (Brazil) with many more cities in the pipeline. Why is their ministry so effective? What does it tell us about the ministry of evangelism, the content of the gospel, and the needs and interests of young Australians?

   

• 2019

  The Bible in Australia

  Thursday, 16 May 2019
  Presenter: Dr Meredith Lake

  We’re all pretty used to the idea that Australia isn’t a 'Christian country', but it is still a culture upon which the Bible has cast a pretty long shadow. Christian belief and practice have been here since the First Fleet arrived. Today, references to biblical phrases (“my brother’s keeper”) and allusions to Bible teaching (“Do unto others…”) are commonplace. But, as we saw in the same-sex marriage debate, no one wants to hear the Bible quoted authoritatively in public debates.

  Based on her award-winning book, The Bible in Australia, Dr Lake presented the historical 'backstory' to where we are at with the Bible now, with a view to exploring the best uses of the Bible in public discourse and political debate.

  Tinsley Lecture 2019 from Morling College on Vimeo.

• 2018

  Reclaiming Community: Mission, Church and Aboriginal Wisdom

  Presented by Brooke Prentis
  Monday, 26 March 2018

   

  2018 ANNUAL LECTURE BOOKLET

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• 2017

  The Joy of the Gospel - From a Theology of the Balcony to a Theology of the Road

  Presented by Dr Cathy Ross

  Wednesday 24th May 2017

   

  2017 ANNUAL LECTURE BOOKLET

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• 2016

  Uncommon Good: Peaceable Dialogue for Partisan Times

  Presented by Dave Benson

   

  2016 ANNUAL LECTURE BOOKLET

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• 2015

  Prayer as a Weapon: Clasped Hands as Nonviolent Uprising

  Presented by Matt Anslow

   

  2015 ANNUAL LECTURE BOOKLET

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• 2014

  Gender: Being Missional and the Reign of God

  Presented by Rev. Karina Kreminski

   

  2014 ANNUAL LECTURE BOOKLET

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• 2013

  Preaching to the Birds? The Mission of the Church to the Creation

  Presented by Dr Mick Pope

  2013 ANNUAL LECTURE BOOKLET

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• 2012

  Everyday Theology in the iWorld

  Presented by Dr Justine Toh

  2012 ANNUAL LECTURE BOOKLET

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