Other Key Movements in Australia
Centre for Public Christianity (http://publicchristianity.org/)
The Centre for Public Christianity (CPX) is a not-for-profit media company that offers a Christian perspective on contemporary life. We seek to promote the public understanding of the Christian faith by engaging mainstream media and the general public with high quality and well-researched print, video and audio material about the relevance of Christianity in the 21st century.
CASE = Centre for Apologetic Scholarship and Education (http://www.case.edu.au/)
CASE stands for the Centre for Apologetic Scholarship and Education. CASE exists to explore the importance and place of Christianity in today’s world. It carries out Christian apologetics—the activity of defending the Christian faith, engaging with other world views and attracting ‘thinking’ people to the message of the Christian faith.
Zadoc Institute for Christianity and Society (http://www.zadok.org.au/about/index.shtml )
The Zadok Institute for Christianity and Society is an independent Christian organisation whose mission is to promote informed theological reflection, especially by lay people, on contemporary issues in Australian society, and to bring Christian perspectives into public debate.
Compass (http://www.compass.org.au/)
Compass exists to see faith and life connected in a transforming way, shaped and energized by the biblical story.
Think Christianity (http://www.thinkchristianity.org/)
Their mission involves commending the Christian belief system to audiences throughout the world, on the basis that it is credible and true. Instead of being vague, boring and irrelevant, Christianity offers a comprehensive and detailed understanding of ourselves and our world, with deep meaning and significance for our lives. So not only is it intellectually satisfying, it’s also exciting and transformational — something really worth thinking about!
The Lausanne Movement (http://www.lausanne.org/en/)
The goal of the Lausanne Movement is to see the whole church taking the whole gospel to the whole world. It strives for new partnerships and strategic alliances among like-minded missional Christians who pray, plan and work together on global evangelization.
Mark Sayers Social Commentary (http://www.redchurch.org.au/mark-sayers/)
An author and speaker who specialises in interpreting popular culture from a Christian viewpoint.
Key books for the Australian Context:
The Spirit of Generation Y: Young People’s Spirituality in a Changing Australia (2008), by Michael Mason, Andrew Singleton and Ruth Webber
Spirit, Word and World: Evangelical Christianity in Australia (2011) by Stuart Piggin
The Trouble with Paris (2008) by Mark Sayers
The Insect and the Buffalo (2011) by Andrew Shamy and Roshal Allpress