Reverend Dr Garry Worete Deverell preached at Pitt Street Uniting Church, Warrane/Sydney on Sorry Day/Trinity Sunday 2024.
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Garry Worete DeverellScraps from the table: Apologies, equivocations, and handwringing from church leaders at the Yoorrook Justice Commission
Last week, church leaders in Victoria offered evidence about the abusive histories of their churches with Aboriginal people before a public commission.
“Wait without Hope”: Contemplation and consumer society
Rev Dr Garry Deverell reflects on contemplation in a consumer society: "We need to get outside of the world we have created through the endless self-production of desire. What we need is to get out of our heads and our...
How are the churches to reckon with their colonial heritage?
"The churches are at a crossroads. You can either continue on the path you have taken since you arrived here — the colonising path, which is to make yourselves the centre of all things and therefore leading exploiters...
A prayer for NAIDOC week
Revd Dr Garry Deverell, Lecturer and Research Fellow at the UD School of Indigenous Studies, wrote a prayer for NAIDOC week.
On Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann’s ‘Dadirri’
Revd Dr Garry Deverell on how Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann’s invitation to come listen (‘dadirri’) to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is deeply radical.
‘Boundless plains to share’: Why the National Anthem supports and encourages Australia’s original sin
Rev Dr Garry Deverell (Vice-Chancellor's Fellow in Indigenous Theologies) on why the National Anthem supports and encourages Australia’s original sin.
The Bigger Picture: Indigenous theologian Garry Deverell on grounded spirituality
What are the possibilities for a grounded spirituality, in the aftermath of colonisation? Indigenous theologian Garry Deverell has lived the search for a spirituality that connects land and body.
On deferring Easter and diving more deeply into Lenten quarantine
As I write the COVID-19 virus is transmitting itself from person to person at an exponential rate. Much of the transmission is happening ‘under the radar’ as people who do not know they have the virus pass...