We will be celebrating the St Barnabas College Commencement Service on Thursday, 16 February 2023 at 6.00pm in St Peter’s Cathedral…. Read More
New Partnership Announcement
St Barnabas College joins University of Divinity The University of Divinity is delighted to welcome St Barnabas College as its… Read More
Philo Research Seminar – 2022
A Systematic Theologian Reflects on Philo of Alexandria Presented by Dr Rodney Fopp Dr Rodney Fopp is a senior lecturer… Read More
Hebrew Reading Group
Have you ever wanted to study Hebrew, or to reconnect with Hebrew from study done ages past? Then there is… Read More
Church Governance and Management
MIN402 Church Governance and Management A four-day Intensive presented by +Jeffrey Driver Interested in learning more about Church Governance and… Read More
04/04/22 Covid-19 Update
The current mandate on vaccinations for entry to Diocesan Offices (including SBC) has been lifted. Considering this, there are some… Read More
Beyond the Days
Beyond the Days – reflecting on Philip Larkin’s ‘Days’ In his 1953 poem Days, Philip Larkin poses the question, “Where… Read More
Covid-19 Update
Please be aware of the following important announcement regarding entry to Diocesan Offices – St Barnabas College and The Lodge…. Read More
140 Year Anniversary – Dedication of St Barnabas College Building
140 Year Anniversary – Dedication of St Barnabas College Building The 26th November 2021 marks 140 years since the dedication… Read More
The Pilgrim’s Progress of Peter Chapman
A few weeks ago, SBC hosted a four day long intensive on the subject THL315 – Anglican Foundations. The subject… Read More
Keep Lighting Candles
The below is transcript of a sermon entitled Keep Lighting Candles preached by SBC Homiletics lecturer, The Rev’d Canon Jenny… Read More
Mutual Accountability and the Unity of the Church
Book Review by John Littleton Olav Fykse Tveit, 2016. The Truth We Owe Each Other: Mutual Accountability in the Ecumenical… Read More
The Renewal of our Nature
I recently completed an Honour’s thesis on the Atonement, seeing salvation as reconciliation and the renewal of human nature, including… Read More
Bushfires
Bushfires Loving God, our prayers today are where our hearts and minds have been during last week: with the victims… Read More
Downdetector
I was reflecting recently on the new covenant expressed in Jeremiah 31:31–34: “I will put my law in their… Read More
Book Review: Steven Ogden on Church, Authority, and Foucault (Part 2)
Ogden, Steven, G. 2017. The Church, Authority, and Foucault: Imagining the Church as an Open Space of Freedom. London and… Read More
Book Review: Steven Ogden on Church, Authority, and Foucault (Part 1)
Ogden, Steven, G. 2017. The Church, Authority, and Foucault: Imagining the Church as an Open Space of Freedom. London… Read More
Finding God Through Google
This blog post will involve a change of tack from my previous, much more analytically driven posts (here, here, here,… Read More
Book Review: John Shea on the Fully Human
John J, Shea, 2018. Adulthood, Morality, and the Fully Human: A Mosaic of Peace. Lanham, USA and London, UK: Lexington… Read More
The Light Through Which to See the World (Part 2)
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because… Read More
The Light Through Which to See the World (Part 1)
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because… Read More
Rooted and Grounded in Love (Ephesians 3:14-21)
An excerpt of a sermon preached by Rev’d Wendy Morecroft at St Peter’s Cathedral at Evensong on Sunday 16… Read More
Opening the Treasure Trove
Why is it that when we travel abroad, we are drawn to Art Galleries and Museums? Curated collections give us… Read More
Studying the Apostle Paul
Although studying the apostle Paul can be daunting and, at times, quite perplexing, the more that I study him,… Read More
From Adulation to Condemnation
Palm Sunday to Good Friday, a frenzy of adulation turned suddenly to condemnation. How should we explain this sudden change?… Read More
Mary Anoints Jesus
In John 12 we are confronted by the intimate scene of Mary of Bethany anointing Jesus’ feet with expensive… Read More
Our Inestimable Value
One of the benefits of translating the New Testament from the original language is that the pace of one’s reading… Read More
Life: Pilgrim or Tourist?
I want to pick up Ann Nadge’s most interesting discussion, “How does a pilgrim differ from a tourist?” [Here] … Read More
St Paul, Romans and the Rhetoric of Eschatological Hope (Part 2)
Now, after having read part 1, you might be thinking that my findings were an extended activity in stating… Read More
St Paul, Romans and the Rhetoric of Eschatological Hope (Part 1)
It is late 2017, I am about to begin the process of researching and formulating my honours thesis, and… Read More