Tim Orr
Dr Tim Orr is a scholar of Islam and an Evangelical minister, whose work emphasises the theological, historical, and sociopolitical intersections between Christianity and Islam. He holds six academic degrees, including a Master’s in Islamic Studies from the Islamic College in London, where he studied under Shia Muslim scholars from Iran—an experience that deepened his interfaith understanding and shaped his analysis of Islamic theology and politics, particularly within the Iranian context. He recently began a PhD in Interreligious Studies at Hartford International University for Peace and Justice.
His research focuses on Islamic antisemitism, American Evangelicalism, Islamic feminism, and comparative theology between Christianity and Islam. Dr Orr has spoken at leading universities and Shia mosques throughout the UK on topics such as Christian-Muslim relations, Islamic theology, and Gospel-centred engagement with Islam, including Oxford University, Imperial College London, and the University of Tehran. He has also published in peer-reviewed Islamic academic journals. He is the author of five books, including his most recent, Grace and Truth: Paul, the Gospel, and The Challenge of Islam, which explores how the Apostle Paul's message of grace offers a compelling and biblically faithful response to the theological claims of Islam.
Articles by Tim Orr:
17 September 2025
5.5 MINS
Walk into many mainline churches today, and you may hear less about Christ crucified and risen—and more about the perceived dangers of Christian nationalism.
16 September 2025
8.3 MINS
Like termites silently hollowing out the beams of a house, Foucault’s scepticism about truth and morality slowly eroded the theological structure that had once held mainline Christianity together.
12 September 2025
5 MINS
This is not just a battle of ideas. It is a battle for the soul of the church. Palestinian Liberation Theology (PLT) does not merely distort Israel’s story. It displaces Christ Himself. It trades the eternal for the political, the universal for the partisan, the kingdom of God for the agenda of man.
11 September 2025
3.8 MINS
When does speaking your mind become an act of violence? That’s the question confronting Australia after activist Kirralie Smith was dragged through the courts for speaking about transgender athletes. Australia is fast becoming a place where simply stating biological reality is treated as hateful, even unlawful.
2 September 2025
4.7 MINS
Out of heartbreak, God birthed a ministry of hope. Out of loss, He gave me a deeper capacity to walk with the grieving, to sit with the broken, and to speak — not as one theorising from the outside — but as one who has been there, in the fire, and has found God faithful.
1 September 2025
4.4 MINS
As the big day of our adopted baby Faith’s arrival approached, we were told that there was a good chance that Faith might have Dandy Walker syndrome.
26 August 2025
6.7 MINS
The Islamic Republic of Iran stands apart in the contemporary Muslim world for the extent to which it fuses theological doctrine with political authority. While many Islamic societies maintain varying degrees of separation between religious leadership and state governance, Iran’s post-1979 order is constructed on [...]
19 August 2025
4 MINS
Where Israel governs, Christians thrive; where Islamists dominate, Christians decline. By inverting this reality in her interview with Tucker Carlson, Mother Agapia transformed a demographic tragedy into a political distortion.
18 August 2025
7.3 MINS
Much of today’s activism is public religion, without God, but with sacraments, creeds, and saints. Once you recognise that, the Gaza-Israel debate in Australia snaps into focus.
8 August 2025
7.7 MINS
The Harbour Bridge protest was a sermon—a bold proclamation of a theology that rivals the gospel. At its heart lies a theological worldview that fuses political Islam with revolutionary identity politics. The tragedy is not that it happened, but that so few Christian leaders recognised the deeper message it carried.
