Cheng is also an active member of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. He ministers at St Paul's Church, Carlingford,[4] and from 2004 to 2006 he was involved in the "Cumberland University Church", ministering to the Cumberland Campus of Sydney University.[5]
Cheng is the author of several books and other resources published by Matthias Media, including the Pathway Bible Guides Bible study series, and his first book/multimedia publication with Matthias,[6] the Six Steps to Encouragement course.[7] He is an associate of the Anglican Dean of Sydney, Phillip Jensen, and has edited several of his books.
Since the mid-1990s, Cheng has also written numerous articles for The Briefing, a popular evangelical journal distributed in Australia, England and the United States. He is a critic of the ordination of women to the priesthood[8] and homosexuality and has written on the priority of Christian ministry over secular work.
Cheng sends numerous letter to online and print media, some of which were published in the Sydney Morning Herald and other newspapers,[9] and he posts regularly on many websites and forums, including the Sydney diocese's "Sydney Anglican"s website where several of his articles have also been published.[10] He has also posted on the Ship of Fools website. His posts defended the actions of a church which was the subject of a defamation lawsuit, involving the sacking of a female lay worker.[11] More recently, Cheng has been a guest opinion writer for Sydney's Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers, writing opinion pieces on religious and ethical issues, including Lent,[12]euthanasia,[13] and racism,[14] In late 2006 he was also enlisted by Daily Telegraph columnist Piers Akerman to be a guest writer for a Muslim-Christian debate run by the paper on multiculturalism; others participating included Lebanese Muslim representative Keysar Trad.[15][16]
^See for example, The Age, "Letters to the Editor: A risk ally for a holy war", 26 August 2003; The Australian, "Letters to the Editor: Irrelevance stalks Anglicans", 29 November 2003; Sydney Morning Herald, "Letters to the Editor: Sifting the Facts and Fallacies of Climate Change", 16 June 2004; Sydney Morning Herald, "Letters to the Editor: Jensen inspires disgust and hostility – but so did Jesus", 15 October 2004; Sydney Morning Herald, "Letters to the Editor: Greedy media play the game by their own rules", 9 May 2006. All articles accessed via Factiva on 8 April 2007.
