Richard Johnson Lecture: Stan Grant | Against Bitterness
Wednesday 22 October from 7:30pm to 9pm
The Richard Johnson Lecture is an annual public event from the Centre for Public Christianity (CPX). Each year we invite someone to speak on a topic that contributes to an important public conversation and highlights the perspective that faith can bring to the subject at hand. In 2025, esteemed Australian journalist Stan Grant will deliver the lecture.
The lecture is named for Richard Johnson (1755-1827), the first chaplain to the colony of New South Wales and a popular exponent of a “public Christianity” that served the common good.
About the topic:
How do we live with suffering? Journalist, writer, and theologian Stan Grant makes the profound and provocative claim that to be released, the oppressed must even honour those who have made them suffer. He draws on his own family history as well as his years as a foreign correspondent to ask how we bring dignity to catastrophe and create the possibility of peace beyond justice. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Stan Grant explain how he sees a life-giving way forward when dealing with injustice, pain, and loss.
About the speaker:
Stan Grant is an Australian journalist, writer, and broadcaster. He has worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and as a Senior International Correspondent for CNN in Asia and the Middle East. He’s a Wiradjuri man and is the author of several books on Indigenous issues in Australia and on his Aboriginal identity. His latest book, Murriyang: Song of Time, is a poetic account of his life and that of his family and his people and offers a vision of the healing balm of Christian faith that has inspired Grant to see himself, other people, and the creation itself in a new light.
About the hosts:
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 through columns published in the media, our Life & Faith podcast, public events, books, and documentaries about the relevance of Christianity in the 21st century.