The Centre for Public Christianity (CPX) is an Australian
not-for-profit media company that supplies mainstream media and the general public with material about the relevance of Christianity in the 21st century.[1] The Centre has no
denominational affiliation and seeks to represent historic Christianity as defined by the
Nicene Creed.
CPX has an online resource library featuring interviews with writers, scholars and commentators.[citation needed] CPX releases a weekly 'Life & Faith' podcast.[10]
CPX runs the annual Richard Johnson Lecture, a series that aims to "highlight Christianity’s relevance to society and positively contribute to public discourse on key aspects of civil life."[11]2018’s speaker was Nick Spencer, Research Director of
Theos, a think tank in London.[12]
The Centre has produced popular and academic works exploring the relevance of the Christian faith, including Public Christianity: Talking about faith in a post-Christian world,[13]10 Tips for Atheists and other conversations in faith and culture[14] and The Wisdom of Islam and the Foolishness of Christianity.[15] In 2013, Smart co-authored a book with
Jane Caro, Antony Loewenstein and Rachel Woodlock called For God's Sake: An Atheist, a Jew, a Christian, and a Muslim debate religion.[16]
In 2009 CPX released an historical documentary called The Life of Jesus[17] that was shown nationally on the
Seven Network.
In late 2015 CPX began work on a documentary: For the Love of God: How the Church is Better and Worse Than You Ever Imagined.[18] The project considers the impact of Christianity on the world, both good and bad. It combines on-location filming with interviews with experts, including
Marilynne Robinson,
Rowan Williams,
Alister McGrath and
Miroslav Volf.[19] The documentary was released in May 2018.
^Smart, Simon (April 2011). Public Christianity: Talking about faith in a post-Christian world. Centre for Public Christianity.
^Moore, Natasha (June 2016). 10 Tips for Atheists and other conversations in faith and culture. Centre for Public Christianity.
^Shumack, Richard (April 2004). The Wisdom of Islam and the Foolishness of Christianity. Island View Publishing.
^Caro, Jane; Loewenstein, Antony; Smart, Simon; Woodlock, Rachel (July 2013). For God's Sake: An Atheist, a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim debate religion. Macmillan Publishers.