Michael Godfrey holds a PhD in New Testament from Australian Catholic University and a MA in Literature from Massey University. An Anglican priest, he has worked in rural and remote, suburban and inner-urban Australia and New Zealand. He serves in a parish south of Darwin, is archdeacon of rural and remote regions of Arnhemland in Australia's Northern Territory, and chaplain of Kormilda College, a secondary college catering to urban and remote Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.