Director of Lay Education, St Francis College, Milton

Jonathan Sargeant

About Jonathan -

Jonathan Sargeant is Director of Lay Education at St Francis College, Milton and worships there, too. He has a Bachelor of Theology from the BCT and a MMin from Charles Sturt University, along with Education and Youth Work diplomas. With a special interest in Public Discourse about religion, pop culture and film, Jonathan’s PhD is on the way.

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Articles by Jonathan

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

“There’s a lot more going on here than in your everyday blockbuster, providing good fodder for homiletic examination. With a light and dark side and the area in between, the Force remains a potent concept for spiritual pondering,” says Jonathan Sargeant in this spoiler-free film review

Against Our Oath

“Focusing on health care professionals is a smart angle to take; it appropriately and effectively removes the situation of people seeking asylum from the tangled and sticky web of politics,” says FormedFaith’s Jonathan Sargeant on award-winning director Heather Kirkpatrick’s latest documentary

Joker

“If he wanted to annoy rather than inspire, then the Oscar is his,” says movie reviewer Jonathan Sargeant of Todd Phillips’ recently released Joker

Small groups answering big questions

“The idea of an ever-evolving collection of big questions about being human and our relationship with things bigger than ourselves is absolutely central to what it is to BE human in the first place,” says Director of Lay Education at St Francis College, Jonathan Sargeant

Defining and deciding as an Anglican

Reflecting upon the history and origins of Anglicanism, Jonathan Sargeant presents two modern-day scenarios and asks “What would you, as an Anglican, do?”

Where Hands Touch

Jonathan Sargeant gives a mixed review on this motion picture drama, which is currently showing in cinemas, and which depicts the romance between a young bi-racial Berlin adolescent girl and a member of the Hitler youth

Do The Oscars Really Matter? (Hint: no they don’t)

Lay Education Director at St Francis College Jonathan Sargeant reviews the Oscars and the confronting Australian film Reflections in the Dust, which did not make the Oscars’ nominee list