Cite 2009

I've just returned from the inaugural Cite Conference in Canberra. Around 40 academics and postgrads from all around Australia gathered (alongside around 1300 undergrads who were there for AFES's National Training Event).
It was such a full week - full of useful, encouraging sessions, full of new and interesting people to meet, full of things to think about for the future.
Along with the undergrads, we heard Bible talks from John Dickson and Andrew Reid on the Kingdom of God and his appointed King, Jesus Christ. We also joined the NTE-ers for meals en masse in the enormous Budawang Pavilion.
Our own sessions included sincere, convicting talks from Daryl McCarthy from the International Institute for Christian Studies (www.iics.com), brainstorming and planning sessions for The Simeon Network (www.simeonnetwork.org), and Research/Gospel/Public Interest sessions with Malcolm Williams and a host of guest speakers with media experience to help us think about how we can use media opportunities to get a Christian worldview on our research area out into the media space. This blog is my first practical step following on from that.