I’m often told that it was “for my sins” that I was elected to the board of directors of Shire Christian School in Sydney’s south, but I rather enjoy the role, especially as it’s where my daughter attends. It’s an independent, self-consciously conservative Christian institution in the reformed theological tradition. Board and faculty members subscribe to a rigorous ten-point statement of faith which affirms as its “supreme standard” the “Scripture of the Old and New Testaments” which is  “the infallible word of God,” read in light of the Belgic Confession (1561), the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), the Thirty Nine Articles (1563), the Canons of Dort (1619), the Westminster Confession (1646), and the London Baptist Confession (1689).