About

We provide coherent, well-validated representation, advocacy and support through round table interaction, member engagement, national and international collaboration, strategic thinking and research. 

As a well-known and respected learning and research organisation, not only within Australia but internationally, we seek collegiality and collaboration for the common good, while actively promoting Christian education as exemplary education.

Dr. Dave Benson (BAppSci.HMS-Ed; MA-Theology; Ph.D-Practical Theology) is the Executive Director of Associated Christian Schools (ACS), a consultant for Seed on vocation and faith–work integration, and an Associate for Culture and Discipleship at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC). Dave pursues the formation of ‘wise peacemakers’ who have wisdom for the way of following Christ in this complex cultural moment.

As a former high school teacher, youth worker, and pastor, Dave is especially interested in whole-life disciplemaking through the intersection of church, work, and transformative education. He is passionate about dialogue where everyone gets a say, and Christian faith finds a healthy public expression in our post-Christendom context, toward the flourishing of all. Dave’s 2016 Ph.D project, entitled “Schools, Scripture and Secularisation,” considers the telos of competing curricular visions and the place of Sacred Texts in Secular Education. From this foundation, he has served as a consultant in the Christian schooling sector. Hailing from Brisbane, he formerly lectured at Malyon [now Morling] Theological College in the areas of evangelism, apologetics, worldviews, faith–work integration, youth, and practical theology. Dave established Traverse (the Malyon centre for bridging church and culture), and with his wife, Nikki, led the intentional Christian community, Christ’s Pieces, seeking a practices-oriented missional faith.