In Semester 1, 2025 Uniting College for Leadership and Theology offered its first Indigenous Studies unit led by Adnyamathanha Elder Rev. Dr. Aunty Denise Champion with Dr Rosemary Dewerse.
We know that dying, death and funerals have been different since the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic, particularly during the periods of community lockdown. While there has been some media emphasis on the experiences...
By Stephen Cauchi. This article is reposted with permission from The Melbourne Anglican. The resurrected Christian body will be far superior to the transhuman ideal of bodies or minds that live on forever, theology...
An "outstanding debut book" by UD alumnus and Honorary Postdoctoral Associate Reverend Dr Alex Ross offers a paradigm-shift in understanding authority and polity in Anglicanism. Rowan Williams, in his Foreword...
Gratitude is one way to enhance our resilience and endurance in these difficult days. Psychologists tell us that our brains our wired for the negative—a survival instinct so that we are always prepared for the worst...
Dr Trudy Dantis (UD alumna and Director of National Centre for Pastoral Research) and Very Reverend Dr Kevin Lenehan (UD alumnus and Master of CTC) are part of the writing instrumentum laboris along with Archbishop...
It has been another month of extremes for the University, Australia, and the world. Nonetheless, second semester is now underway, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of many people committed to the vision and mission of...
ACFT brings together national and international scholars and activists around feminist perspectives on current issues – join our HORIZONS discussion series.
The University of Divinity is committed to the use of one basic referencing style for theology courses, which is based on the latest version of the Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed. 2017).
Imagine the reaction when it was suggested to the English Fellows of Oxford University in the summer of 1939 that classes may have to be suspended due to the impending outbreak of war in Europe!
The Bonhoeffer Legacy: An International Journal is a fully refereed academic journal aimed principally at providing an outlet for an ever-expanding Bonhoeffer scholarship in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific...
Perseverance would have to be one of my least favourite virtues. I hate being told to persevere; to ‘just keep going’. As if I weren’t already doing my best, or trying my hardest…The whole notion of perseverance...
Hope, assurance of restoration, and belief in the God who can bring an end to all suffering, does not prevent Jesus weeping. “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; as they are...
Reverend Canon Dr Bob Derrenbacker writes, "in the face of increasing turmoil, let's continue to follow the 'Golden Rule', and 'do unto others', even in a pandemic."
Of my earliest encounters with Wägilak manikay (song), one memory stands out vividly. I had just heard a performance of Crossing Roper Bar, a wild admixture of free-jazz improvisation and ceremonial manikay bringing...
The 2020 Student Experience Survey (SES) is coming soon! The SES is a national survey being conducted for the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment. The SES gives you the opportunity to...
Brian Kolia joins the podcast to discuss Jacob’s wrestle with God in Genesis 32:22-31. We point to the humour in this story where God takes on some human characteristics and becomes the trickster, a role that has...
A national meeting of Catholic seminary students and formation staff held recently has focussed on the topic of Safeguarding and Seminary Formation. On 2 July, almost 200 seminarians, formators and academic staff...
I’m writing this column from Melbourne in the midst of a second lockdown, where like so many communities around the world, we are dealing with mixed emotions: trying to obey a new set of rules, attempting to manage our...
The impact of coronavirus on students this past semester has been significant as units moved to online delivery due to national and state gathering restrictions. The University is vitally interested in the experiences...
The Council of the University of Divinity has reappointed Dr Graeme L. Blackman AO as Chancellor for a further term of three years until December 2023. Dr Blackman was appointed inaugural Chancellor of the University in...
The Gazette is a public document that reports the outcomes of meetings of the University Council and Academic Board since the last Gazette was issued. To view the latest University Gazette in pdf, issued 7 July 2020...
Congratulations to Dr Brian Macallan who has been appointed Associate Head of Bible, Theology and Ministry at Stirling Theological College. He also maintains his position as a Senior Lecturer in Theology at the College...
Dr Libby Byrne's ongoing research explores the idea of painting a contribution to a conversation about the lived experience of incarnational worship. In this strange time of COVID isolation, both together and apart, Dr...
This week the lectionary offers a rare chance to preach on the love poetry known as Song of Songs (Song of Solomon). Hebrew Bible scholar, Brian Kolia, joins the podcast to unpack Genesis 24:34-38, 58-67, Song of Songs...
Congratulations to Fr Dr Nebojsa Tumara on the publication of his new book Holy Body and Holy Scripture: Anthropological Assumptions of Ascetic Exegesis of the Holy Scripture in Early Rabbinic Judaism and Early Syriac...
One of the phrases that must be in contention for the phrase of the year contest is ‘the new normal.’ Just searching the news gives over a million hits in the last month alone. But the rapid reoccurrence of this phrase...
For Molly Swee, sitting down for an unscheduled ‘cuppa’ with the Dean of Trinity College’s Theological School led to master’s coursework and an enriched life. I work as an essential worker with the Victorian Government...
The story in which Ishmael and Hagar are driven out into the wilderness by Sarah, with Abraham’s complicity, has often been read as setting up the animosity which has persisted between different nations and faith...
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University of Divinity
Dorothy Lee
Peter Sherlock
Feminist Theologies
Kevin Lenehan
Catholic Theological College
Mark Lindsay
Rachelle Gilmour
Robert Derrenbacker
Samuel Curkpatrick
By the Well
Carolyn Alsen
Stirling College
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Christopher Porter
Trinity College Theological School
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