Rev. Peter J Blackburn is a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia. He has served in country, provincial city and metropolitan parishes in the Methodist Church and (since Church Union on June 22 1977) in the Uniting Church. Peter completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Queensland in 1959. He followed with a post-graduate Bachelor of Divinity with Honours in New Testament in 1964, his thesis being on the historical and philosophical background of the Epistle to the Hebrews.
He has been actively involved in conservative evangelical leadership within the Uniting Church. He has been National President of the National Fellowship for Revival (NFFR) within the Uniting Church and has been actively involved in the formation of the Reforming Alliance within the UCA.
He is now retired and living at Allingham (Forrest Beach) in the Ingham district of North Queensland.
Illae sunt, quae testimonium perhibent de me (John 5.39b, Vg)
These [the Scriptures] are the ones that bear witness to me.