- Tom Frame (bishop)
The Right Reverend Associate Professor Tom Frame (born
1962 ,Sydney, New South Wales ) is anAustralia nAnglican bishop ,historian ,academic ,author , andsocial commentator .Frame was raised in
Wollongong by his adoptive parents.Career
He joined the Royal Australian Naval College,
HMAS Creswell , as a 16 year-old CadetMidshipman in January1979 . He studied Asian history at theUniversity of New South Wales graduating with aBachelor of Arts (honours), and was awarded the W.J. Liu Memorial Prize for Excellence in Chinese Studies in 1984.Frame was the Inaugural Summer Vacation Scholar at the
Australian War Memorial in 1985, then completed his training in HMA Ships "Jervis Bay" and "Supply" before serving in the shore establishment HMAS "Cerberus" as an instructor. He took on the additional duties as director of the base's museum and was a consultant to theAustralian National Maritime Museum , meanwhile studying for a Diploma in Education from theUniversity of Melbourne .Lieutenant Frame was appointed Research Officer to the Chief of Naval Staff at Navy Office in Canberra during 1988. Two years later he undertook study in military history at the
Australian Defence Force Academy leading to the award of aPhD in October 1991, taking as his thesis topic the "Melbourne"-"Voyager" collision. He served as a staff officer at the Headquarters,Australian Defence Force , then resigned from the RAN in 1992.Ministry
Frame then completed a Master of
Theology degree with a thesis entitled "The Delphic Sword: Reconciling Christianity and Military Service in Australia", and trained for thepriesthood in theAnglican Church of Australia in theDiocese of Canberra and Goulburn .He was ordained in
1993 and appointed curate of St John’s Church inWagga Wagga and a Visiting Scholar atCharles Sturt University . In 1995, he was inducted asRector of St James’ church, Binda.In 1996-97, he took leave in
England and completed a Master of Arts (Honours) in Applied Theology at theUniversity of Kent atCanterbury as theLucas Tooth Scholar, and ministered in the UnitedBenefice of Hever,Four Elms andMarkbeech in theDiocese of Rochester .He became Rector of St Philip’s Church,
Bungendore , in January 1999 and was appointed Lecturer (half-time) in Public Theology inSt Mark’s National Theological Centre at Canberra in 2000.On
28 June 2001 , he was consecratedbishop , and appointed as the fifth Anglican Bishop to theAustralian Defence Force .Academic career
In January 2007 he relinquished his position as Anglican Bishop to the Defence Force to commence a new position as Director (with the title of Associate Professor) of St Mark's National Theological Centre at Barton in
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory , a college ofCharles Sturt University .ocial comment
Tom Frame is a regular commentator on radio, notably the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation , on military history, church history, and social matters.Bishop Frame was the only Anglican bishop to support the
Government of Australia in its support for the March 2003 invasion ofIraq . On18 June 2004 he recanted that support in a newspaper article titled "Forgive me, I was wrong on Iraq" in which he said, in part, "... in the absence of any clear mitigation, there is no alternative to concluding that the March 2003 invasion was neither just nor necessary ... I continue to seek God's forgiveness for my complicity in creating a world in which this sort of action was ever considered to be necessary." [Forgive me, I was wrong on Iraq [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/17/1087245036392.html]The Age accessed 27 February 2007]Family
He married Helen in 1983. They have two daughters, and live in Canberra.
Frame met his birth mother in the late 1990s, but remains much closer to his adoptive parents, which he discussed in his autobiography, "Binding Ties: an experience of adoption and reunion in Australia" (1999).
Publications
Dr Frame is the author of some 20 books, including:
* "First In, Last Out! The Navy atGallipoli " (1990)
* "The Garden Island" (1990)
* He was convenor of the first Australian Naval History Seminar and co-edited its proceedings, "Reflections on the RAN" (1991)
* "Where Fate Calls: The HMAS Voyager Tragedy" (on which the 1992Australian Broadcasting Corporation 's4 Corners television documentary "The Cruel Legacy" was based)
* "Pacific Partners: A History of Australian-American Naval Relations" (1992)
* "HMAS Sydney: Loss and Controversy" (on which the 1993 Channel 9 television documentary "No Survivor" was based)
* "Mutiny! Naval Insurrections in Australia and New Zealand".
* "Binding Ties: an experience of adoption and reunion in Australia" (1999), his autobiography
* "The Shores of Gallipoli: Naval Aspects of the Anzac Campaign" (2000)
* "Living by the Sword? The Ethics of Armed Intervention" (2004) (second prize, 2005 Australian Christian Literature Society's Australian Christian Book of the Year awards)
* " The Life and Death of Harold Holt" (2005). Allen & Unwin / National Archives of Australia. ISBN 1 74114 672 0.He co-authored:
* "Where the Rivers Run: A History of the Anglican Parish of Wagga Wagga" (1995)
* "Labouring in Vain: A History of Bishopthorpe" (1996)
* "The Seven Churches of Binda: the history of an Anglican rural parish" (1998)
* "A Church for a Nation" (2000), a commissioned history of the Anglican Diocese of Canberra & Goulburn.References
External links
* [http://www.stmarksntc.org.au St Mark's National Theological Centre]
* [http://www.anglicanadf.org.au Anglican Bishop to the Australian Defence Force]
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