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In 2003 he completed his PhD through the University of Otago, on James K. Baxter’s contribution to New Zealand spirituality.

In 1997, Flamingo published his first novel, The Insatiable Moon. Riddell moved to Dunedin, where he has become a Catholic layman, and now writes full-time. This has resulted in another ten books, a play, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, and a screenplay of The Insatiable Moon, a feature film released in New Zealand in October 2010. In 2006 Riddell shifted to the Waikato, where he now resides in Cambridge.

Riddell resigned from being minister at Ponsonby Baptist in 1993. He became a lecturer in theological education, teaching under the University of Auckland School of Theology bachelor's degree.

He returned to New Zealand, and was ordained and appointed minister of Ponsonby Baptist Church, a small congregation in the central city. Here he was to remain for some 9 years. He held a variety of jobs concurrent with that of minister, as a journalist for New Outlook, a current affairs journal, and later as a part-time lecturer at Baptist College. His first book, Godzone: A Guide to the Travels of the Soul, was published in 1992.

While minister of Ponsonby Baptist, Riddell was instrumental in establishing the Community of Refuge Trust, a community housing initiative providing accommodation for psychiatric patients and low-income tenants. He was actively involved in local affairs and served for a time on the Ponsonby Community Committee. In 1991, Riddell was involved in a confrontation with Auckland City Council over the proposed sale of Council housing in the Freemans Bay Area. He informed the councillors that they were stripping the poor their city of their dignity and leaving them naked.

Riddell was accepted for the NZ Baptist Theological College in Auckland, so the family moved there in 1979. During the time at College, Riddell was involved in protest against the 1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand. The family moved to Switzerland in 1982, where Riddell pursued postgraduate studies in Theology at an international seminary near Zurich, graduating summa cum laude at the end of 1984.

Michael Riddell (born 23 March 1953 in Porirua East, New Zealand) is a Dunedin, New Zealand-based writer.