Michael David Raiter is a well-known Christian

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 speaker and is the current principal of the Melbourne School of Theology

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 in Melbourne

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, Australia

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. He is also the author of a number of books, including Stirrings of the Soul (Matthias Media, 2003), which won the 2004 SPCK Australian Christian Book of the Year Award.

Born in Liverpool

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, England

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 and raised in the New South Wales

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 town of Dapto, Raiter began his career as a high school teacher in Sydney

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 and Pakistan

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. After studying at Moore Theological College

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he returned to Pakistan to teach at the Zarephath Bible Institute. In 1997 he joined the faculty at Moore College as head of the Department of Missions.

Since 2006 Raiter has been the principal of the Melbourne School of Theology (formerly the Bible College of Victoria), an evangelical theological college.