Gordon Cheng

Gordon Charles Cheng was born on 18 February 1961. He was of Swedish and Chinese descent. He trained for ministry at Moore Theological College in Sydney before being ordained in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, as a deacon in 1989 and a presbyter in 1990.

Cheng worked for about ten years as a senior staff worker with the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students at the University of Melbourne. He then moved to Sydney, where he ministered at several churches, including St Paul's Church, Carlingford, and from 2004 to 2006 was part of the Cumberland University Church, serving students at the Cumberland Campus of the University of Sydney. He was later campus director there and then a Bible teacher with the fellowship at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

From February 2004 to January 2009 he was resources editor at Matthias Media, the Sydney based evangelical publisher, responsible for its resources other than The Briefing magazine. His own titles there included volumes in the Pathway Bible Guides series and his first course, Six Steps to Encouragement. He also edited several books by Phillip Jensen.

From the mid 1990s he contributed articles to The Briefing, and his letters appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and other papers. He wrote guest opinion columns for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph on religious and ethical questions, and in late 2006 was a guest writer in the Telegraph's Muslim and Christian debate on multiculturalism. He was an outspoken conservative on the ordination of women and on gay relationships, and wrote about the priority of Christian ministry over secular work.

Cheng was married to Fiona, and they had three children. He was a prolific writer online, posting on church and discussion websites including Sydney Anglicans and Ship of Fools, and kept a blog. The Other Cheek noted that he was greatly loved by many followers and friends.

Gordon Cheng died early on the morning of 20 October 2026, aged 65. The Christian news site The Other Cheek reported his death the same day and asked readers to pray for his wife and children. The Anglican Church of Australia directory records his death on 20 October 2026. No cause of death was made public.

Through the Pathway Bible Guides and other Matthias Media resources, Cheng's work was used by Bible study groups well beyond Australia. Generations of university students knew him as a campus minister and teacher, and his columns and online writing made him one of the more recognisable voices of Sydney evangelical Anglicanism in public debate.