Christopher Gilbert
Freelance Writer/ Educator at SelfAbout
After a solo trip to Japan and then the Soviet Union in January-March of 1975, Christopher Gilbert returned to Australia with heightened interest in human history and his own lazy worldview. Reading the Bible for the first time, he was compelled to face the reality of Jesus' resurrection from the dead. For the past 51 years he has explored the impact of that event on human life for the good through history, and ongoing in the present. In 1997 he visited the US which resulted in marriage to Jo Kadlecek a year later and 18 years of work there: training and equipping people for building Christian community in New York City and Boston's North Shore, completing a seminary degree, and documentary film-making until departing for Australia in 2015. On return to Australia to care for elderly parents he equipped himself to teach English as a second language until he began work at Excelsia University College in Sydney, 2019, teaching the core units of Christian Formation and Ethics to International students from South Asia for six years. Since July 2025 he has been freelancing, mostly in research and writing. He maintains a weekly Substack blog; christophergilbert.substack.com writing a series on the nature of personhood. and working on a memoir.
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After a solo trip to Japan and then the Soviet Union in January-March of 1975, Christopher Gilbert returned to Australia with heightened interest in human history and his own lazy worldview. Reading the Bible for the first time, he was compelled to face the reality of Jesus' resurrection from the dead. For the past 51 years he has explored the impact of that event on human life for the good through history, and ongoing in the present. In 1997 he visited the US which resulted in marriage to Jo Kadlecek a year later and 18 years of work there: training and equipping people for building Christian community in New York City and Boston's North Shore, completing a seminary degree, and documentary film-making until departing for Australia in 2015. On return to Australia to care for elderly parents he equipped himself to teach English as a second language until he began work at Excelsia University College in Sydney, 2019, teaching the core units of Christian Formation and Ethics to International students from South Asia for six years. Since July 2025 he has been freelancing, mostly in research and writing. He maintains a weekly Substack blog; christophergilbert.substack.com writing a series on the nature of personhood. and working on a memoir.
About
After a solo trip to Japan and then the Soviet Union in January-March of 1975, Christopher Gilbert returned to Australia with heightened interest in human history and his own lazy worldview. Reading the Bible for the first time, he was compelled to face the reality of Jesus' resurrection from the dead. For the past 51 years he has explored the impact of that event on human life for the good through history, and ongoing in the present. In 1997 he visited the US which resulted in marriage to Jo Kadlecek a year later and 18 years of work there: training and equipping people for building Christian community in New York City and Boston's North Shore, completing a seminary degree, and documentary film-making until departing for Australia in 2015. On return to Australia to care for elderly parents he equipped himself to teach English as a second language until he began work at Excelsia University College in Sydney, 2019, teaching the core units of Christian Formation and Ethics to International students from South Asia for six years. Since July 2025 he has been freelancing, mostly in research and writing. He maintains a weekly Substack blog; christophergilbert.substack.com writing a series on the nature of personhood. and working on a memoir.