About CPX

The Centre for Public Christianity (CPX) is a media company that offers a Christian perspective on contemporary life.

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.

With the Western World largely dismissing religion as irrelevant and divisive, and distorted media stereotypes painting faith as reactionary and anti-intellectual, some believers have felt compelled to adopt a strongly defensive posture against all critique.

CPX was launched to engage the public with a clear, measured, and respectful picture of the Christian faith and the way it can impact all of life for the good. We aim to ‘drop the drawbridge’ and walk into the public square confident that Christianity still has something vital to say about life’s biggest questions.

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Our Values

CPX, like all organisations, has a set of values that shape our approach to cultural engagement. We hold to the historic Christian teaching found in the Old and New Testaments that centres on the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus as outlined in the Nicene Creed, and we believe that a clear articulation of that teaching reveals Christianity’s truth, beauty, and goodness.

CONTRIBUTORS

Our writers & speakers

Simon Smart

Executive Director

Simon is Executive Director of the Centre for Public Christianity. A former English and History teacher, Simon has a Masters in Christian Studies from Regent College, Canada.

Natasha Moore

Senior Research Fellow

Natasha is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity. She has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Cambridge. Natasha is on maternity leave until the middle of 2025.

Justine Toh

Senior Research Fellow

Justine Toh is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity. She has a PhD in Cultural Studies from Macquarie University.

Max Jeganathan

Senior Research Fellow

Max is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity. Max has worked as a lawyer, a policy advisor in Canberra, and public Christian in Singapore. He's currently finishing his PhD in economics.

Tim Costello

Senior Fellow

Tim Costello is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity.

Barney Zwartz

 Senior Fellow

Barney is a part-time Senior Fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity, based in Melbourne. He was formerly Religion Editor for The Age.

Danielle Terceiro

Research Fellow

Danielle is a research fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity. She worked as a lawyer and english teacher before joining the CPX team. She will be beginning her ADM fellowship in 2025.

CPX is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bible Society Australia, and is registered with ASIC as a company limited by guarantee.

CPX receives no government funding and relies on donations from organisations and individuals, as well as income generated from its work, to cover all costs.