Graham Joseph Hill
OAM PhD
Pastor | Author | Theologian
“Following Jesus and His Way”
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I’m an Australian author, pastor, and theologian. I’ve written more than 45 books on Christian spirituality, faith and culture, and the way of Jesus in personal and public life, and I host The Graham Joseph Hill Podcast. I hold a PhD from Flinders University, and in 2024 I received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to Australian Baptist churches and theological education. You can subscribe to my writing at https://substack.com/@grahamjosephhill
latest blogs
Renewing Humility, Mission, and Discipleship: A conversation with Daniel Bourdanne
My interview with Daniel Bourdanne (1959–2024) on renewing Christian humility, mission, and discipleship (for The Global Church Project) . . . Hello, and welcome to The Global Church Project. I’m Graham Joseph Hill. Daniel Bourdanne was born in Chad. He served with...
The Room Got Smaller. The Church Got Bigger.
How the Majority World Is Reshaping Christianity A few years ago, I sat in a church hall in a country town in New South Wales while someone I’ll call Val counted the heads in the room. Val got to nineteen, then told me, with no bitterness at all, that when Val was a...
Our Home is in Jesus Christ
A couple of months ago, my little family traveled to Palawan in the Philippines to celebrate my daughter Sophia’s first birthday. It was a lovely time of love, laughter, and great food: three things my Filipino family and friends do so well. But, as usual, I was...
ABOUT GRAHAM JOSEPH HILL OAM PHD
“Following Jesus and His Way”
Graham Joseph Hill (PhD, Flinders University) is one of Australia’s most prolific and award-winning Christian authors. His books explore Christian spirituality, Australian society, missional and intercultural theology, World Christianity, and the work of justice and reconciliation. He’s an adjunct research fellow and associate professor in the School of Theology at Charles Sturt University. In 2024, he received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to theological education. Based in Sydney, Australia, he’s written more than 45 books, including:
• “Salt, Light, and a City,” winner of the 2012 Jesus Creed Book of the Year (church category);
• “Healing Our Broken Humanity” (with Grace Ji-Sun Kim), named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Book of the Year (culture category);
• “World Christianity,” shortlisted for the 2025 Australian Christian Book of the Year;
• “Advance Australia Fairer,” winner of a Gold Medal at the 2026 Independent Publisher Book Awards, in the Asia-Pacific and Oceania Non-Fiction category;
• “Love in the Age of Algorithms,” winner of a Silver Medal at the same awards, in the Religion category.
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Qualifications: OAM, Cert C&M (ACT), Cert IV WT&A (Tabor), HonsDipMin (SCD), BTheol (SCD), PG Cert TESOL (Macquarie), GradCertPS (UD), MTheol (Notre Dame Aust), PhD (Flinders)
What I Believe
I explore the links between Christian faith and personal and public life, shaped by Scripture’s authority, historic Christian orthodoxy, and discipleship in the Way of Jesus. I affirm the Nicene, Apostles’, and Chalcedonian creeds as faithful expressions of that orthodoxy, and I hold the Old and New Testaments as the inspired and trustworthy Word of God, carrying supreme authority for faith and conduct. My work is grounded in the life of the Triune God and centered on Jesus Christ, crucified and risen, whose gospel comes to us as a gift of grace and brings both personal transformation and the common good.
GRAHAM’S LATEST BOOK
WORLD CHRISTIANITY: AN INTRODUCTION
World Christianity: An Introduction provides an accessible introduction to the discipline, methodology, and field of world Christianity. In this book, Graham Joseph Hill engages with more than one hundred high-profile Majority World and First Nations Christian leaders to learn what they can teach the West about mission, leadership, hospitality, creation care, education, worship, and more. Hill challenges the Western church to move away from a Eurocentric and Americentric view of church and mission, and he calls for the church to engage with crucial paradigm shifts in world Christianity. The future of the global church—including the churches in the West—exists in these global exchanges. World Christianity is an indispensable guide for the church as it navigates the unique global experiences of the twenty-first century.
GRAHAM’S BOOKS
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Contact me at graham@grahamjosephhill.com for speaking engagements, permissions, and other general inquiries.
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