Everlasting Grail: Call for Expressions of Interest

Everlasting Grail is taking the next step with the formation of the interim Everlasting Grail Council (EGC). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, First Nations and Non-Indigenous women are warmly invited to nominate someone, apply yourself or be nominated by an Elder, community member or organisation.

This is more than a governance role. This is an opportunity to be part of a shared journey of leadership, truth-telling, and renewal.

There is more information and details of how to apply on the University of Divinity webpage. Applications can be written, or recorded as audio or video, and close on Friday 11 September 2026.

The EGC will provide oversight and direction for the initiative that is the Everlasting Grail, ensure decisions are culturally grounded and community-led, support projects that strengthen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, families, and communities, and help build networks, mentorship, and future leadership pathways

We are guided by the image of the Golden Everlasting which is a flower that grows from Country across Australia, returns after fire, and carries life forward across generations.

The Everlasting Grail is a perpetual resource to support Aboriginal and Torres Stait Islander women engaged in spirituality and theology, and so in turn to contribute to the flourishing of all women and their wider communities. Committed to a vision of mutual transformation, Everlasting Grail holds that Indigenous theological, spiritual and relational ways of knowing are likely vital for reshaping theological education and church life more broadly in Australia. Beyond solely including Indigenous voices in existing systems, the deeper invitation of Everlasting Grail is to enable those voices, ontologies, spiritualities and relationships with Country to challenge and reshape the structures themselves.