The Baptist Morling College, until 2021, soley operating out of its Sydney campus, becomes a four city operation in 2025. Morling now has courses available in Melbourne taught in person at the main Crossway Baptist Church campus in Burwood East.
In 2021 Vose Seminary in Perth, run by the WA Baptists became a campus of Morling College. Malyon College in Brisbane, the seminary for the Queensland Baptists, is merging with Morling in January 2025, and the two colleges have been working closely throught 2024.
Teaching courses on site at Crossway gives Morling a physical location in the four largest cities in Australia.
“The Crossway partnership is part of our larger vision to partner with local churches and church networks to multiply the number of people being equipped for ministry in Baptist churches and beyond,” Morling Principal Tim MacBride tells The Other Cheek. “We’re delighted to be able to offer access to in-person theological education opportunities on Crossway’s main site for students from Crossway and other local churches, in addition to the existing opportunities for people across Crossway’s other seven sites in Victoria and NSW, through our online programme.”
Crossway – called an extension campus – will feature theological education and ministry training by offering six introductory units and field education classes.
Melbourne pastor Murray Campbell describes Morling at Crossway as “A new and promising option … now available for Victorian Baptists training for ministry or looking for theological education.”
Morling, Crossway, Vose and Malyon could each be fairly described as evangelical in outlook. Melbourne has another Baptist Theological College, Whitley, which includes more progressive and diverse theology than the Morling group. This is reflected in Whitley’s affilation to the University of Divinity, while Morling is affilated with the evangelical Australian College of Theology.
Correction: tense altered in first sentence.