Graham Joseph Hill
OAM PhD
Pastor | Author | Theologian
“Following Jesus and His Way”
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I’m an Australian pastor, author, and theologian. I’ve written more than 30 books on spiritual formation, mission, World Christianity, and Australian public life, including Ten Movements of the Jesus Way (IVP) and World Christianity, which was shortlisted for the 2025 Australian Christian Book of the Year. Two of my books won 2026 IPPY Awards. I founded The Global Church Project, I’m a Research Associate at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 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 theological education and to Australian Baptist churches. You can subscribe to my writing at https://substack.com/@grahamjosephhill
A pastor-theologian following the Jesus Way through the Bible and the hardest questions facing Christians and the world. I’m Graham Joseph Hill (OAM PhD), and every second episode works through a book or passage of Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation. The episodes in between take on a topic: faith and doubt, grief and burnout, the global church, justice, gender, technology, science, and politics. Each one is deeply researched, fair to every side, and ends in hope with three book recommendations. Questions or topic ideas? Email GrahamPodcast@icloud.com.
What monks and nuns can teach Christians about phones, prayer, Sabbath, and attention in a scrolling age.
It’s Anzac Day in Sydney, and a cup of tea is going cold on the desk as one social media account after another disappears. Each platform asks the same thing in a friendly little box: are you sure? Afterwards there’s a stillness in the house, and the strange sense of walking back into a room that’s been empty for years. What would it take to build a monastery inside an ordinary life, a life with a job, a family, and a phone in its pocket?
In this episode, Graham explores the themes of his new book, Digital Monasticism: Ancient Wisdom for a Scrolling Age (Cascade Books). He starts by explaining what monasticism is, what digital monasticism means, and what it might look like for ordinary people. Drawing on Erving Goffman, Christine Rosen, Gloria Mark, and Sherry Turkle, he names the deeper shift underneath our screen habits: the loss of the inner room, a self with no backstage. He traces how Christians have rebuilt the monastery for their own moment, from Pachomius and Benedict to the Beguines of Bruges, the Book of Hours, the Christukula Ashram in South India, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s call for a new monasticism. He opens Jesus’ words about the inner room in Matthew 6, Daniel’s open windows, the unforced rhythms of Matthew 11, and the Sabbath as freedom from Pharaoh’s brick quotas, alongside Augustine, Pascal, Brother Lawrence, Walter Brueggemann, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and James K. A. Smith. He takes on the hardest objections head-on: a Filipino student whose phone is her only link to her mother, Luther’s struggle with monastic striving, the critics of Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option, and the argument that tech companies, more than individuals, should carry the burden. He also offers simple practices for this week, and finds hope in a garden where the risen Jesus calls a grieving woman by her name. At its core, the episode asks where your attention is forming you, and who is waiting for you in the inner room.
Book recommendations: “Digital Monasticism: Ancient Wisdom for a Scrolling Age” by Graham Joseph Hill, “The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man” by Abraham Joshua Heschel, “The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction” by Justin Whitmel Earley
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ABOUT GRAHAM JOSEPH HILL OAM PHD
“Following Jesus and His Way”
Rev. Dr Graham Joseph Hill OAM is one of Australia’s most prolific and awarded Christian authors. He’s written more than 30 books on spiritual formation, mission, World Christianity, and Australian public life, including Ten Movements of the Jesus Way (IVP) and World Christianity, shortlisted for the 2025 Australian Christian Book of the Year. Two of his books won 2026 IPPY Awards. Graham founded The Global Church Project and is a Research Associate at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2024 for service to theological education.
Honours and Qualifications
OAM, Cert IV WT&A (Tabor), Cert C&M (ACT), HonsDipMin (SCD), BTheol (SCD), PG Cert TESOL (Macquarie), GradCertPS (UD), MTheol (Notre Dame Aust), PhD (Flinders)
Book awards and honours
- 2026: Gold Medal, Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), Asia/Australia/New Zealand-Aotearoa/Pacific Rim Non-Fiction, for Advance Australia Fairer: Towards Justice, Belonging, and the Common Good
- 2026: Silver Medal, Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), Religion (Eastern/Western), for Born, Not Built: God’s Children in an Age of AI (also released as Love in the Age of Algorithms)
- 2025: Shortlisted, Australian Christian Book of the Year, for World Christianity: An Introduction
- 2024: Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), King’s Birthday Honours, for service to theological education and to the Baptist Churches of Australia
- 2019: Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year (Culture), for Healing Our Broken Humanity: Practices for Revitalizing the Church and Renewing the World (with Grace Ji-Sun Kim)
- 2016: Finalist and honourable mention, IVP Academic Readers’ Choice Awards, for Global Church: Reshaping Our Conversations, Renewing Our Mission, Revitalizing Our Churches
- 2012: Jesus Creed Book of the Year (Church), chosen by Scot McKnight, for Salt, Light, and a City: Introducing Missional Ecclesiology
- 1996: Australian Annual Theological Essay Award (Undergraduate), for Augustine’s influence on Calvin, Luther, and Zwingli
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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