'John Bunyan is a graduate of the Universities of Sydney, London, Durham and San Francisco. He is a retired priest of the Diocese of Sydney, a parishioner of St John the Baptist’s, Canberra, and a member of St Stephen’s Uniting Church, Sydney, and King’s Chapel, Boston. After many years of parish and educational experience, he remains Honorary Church of England Chaplain at Bankstown Hospital and Honorary Chaplain of the Australian Intelligence Corps Association. He is a member of the Australian Academy of Liturgy and the Prayer Book Society, and of various historical, conservationist, and community organisations.' (Source : Free Mind : Essays and Poems in Honour of Barry Spurr)