Your teacher
Andrew Carter PhD
Pastor, teacher, and Schaeffer scholar.
After a childhood in Manchester, West Germany and Winchester, I became a Christian in 1987. Gratefully raised in a church context committed to deep personal piety and prayer, I arrived at university to study economics and politics unable to defend my faith against the onslaught of the secular mind. Here was my challenge: could Christianity be the truth about the universe, or was it merely a source of personal nourishment to help me cope with life? This quest took me on a journey, still ongoing, to root my faith in reason, truth and history as well as devotion and experience. In short, to develop a Christian worldview that understands all of life with the God of Scripture as the One who makes sense of all things.
What, and who, has helped me on this journey? Precious friends who have walked this path with me; excellent authors whose books taught me to think; times at L’Abri Fellowship in Hampshire; teaching economics in Kenya and London; pastoring churches in England and Thailand; training pastors in Uganda.
Teaching history
Twenty-five years across four continents.
I have taught at the Mombasa Academy in Kenya, the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in South Kensington, London, the Heritage School in Cambridge, the African Bible University in Uganda, and Grace International School in Thailand. I have pastored an evangelical church in Hertfordshire, England, and currently serve an international church in Southeast Asia.
For over twenty years I have been teaching the Bible and worldview for churches, Christian schools, universities and — more recently — online. My wife Julie and I homeschool our six children. My aim is to help believers understand and challenge secular narratives and encourage them to think biblically about all of life.
Qualifications
BA, MA, PhD, PGCE.
In 1992 I graduated in Economics and Public Policy with an upper second degree from Leeds Metropolitan University and was awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Education in 1997. I trained for ministry at Oak Hill Theological College, and King’s College London, obtaining an MA in Systematic Theology in 2005. In 2024 I was awarded a PhD from the University of Durham for my research on the L’Abri Fellowship and Francis Schaeffer — a pioneering thinker in the development of a Christian worldview in the modern era.
Beliefs
A committed evangelical.
I am committed to the full authority of Scripture in all matters of life and faith. I fully subscribe to statements of faith such as that produced by the UCCF or the FIEC.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
— George Orwell, 1984