St James’ Institute
Exploring Faith, Religion, and Society in Sydney’s CBD
St James’ Institute fosters rational, informed discussions of religion. The Institute is based in Sydney and hosts workshops, lectures, and book discussion groups featuring leading historians, poets, religion writers, judges, and theologians.
St James’ Institute is an inclusive educational organisation. We support people from many paths — those seeking God, those questioning faith, and those who simply wish to be better informed.
St James’ Institute is deeply engaged in interreligious dialogue. We are Christians who celebrate human diversity. We face difference in an open and friendly atmosphere. Many of our seminars feature multiple points of view.
Annual Subscriptions
Subscribing to the St James’ Institute grants you access to all events hosted by the St James’ Institute across the year.
Institute Brochure
If you’d like to see the entire years worth of our events, and our partnership events with Trinity in Sydney and others, you can look at our Brochure HERE
The St James Institute
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History
The Institute was established in 2007, arising out of a spirituality centre that was founded in 1989.
The Institute is affiliated with St James’ Church, King Street. St James’ Church has a longstanding commitment to education. Australia’s first divinity school, St James’ College, was established by Bishop William Broughton and Rev’d Robert Allwood (Rector of St James and Vice Chancellor of the University of Sydney) in 1845 at the same location the Institute meets today. The Church also established St James’ Grammar School in 1839 and the St James’ Ethics Centre in 1989.
Image: Hyde Park: The Old Days of Merry Cricket Club Matches, c. 1870/Thomas H Lewis, courtesy of Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales