The national 2024 Student Experience Survey from QILT shows that our continued emphasis on students at the centre of the educational environment produces a more positive overall learning experience. This...
“When we stand side by side the peripheries of our horizons overlap and our vision expands…” The University of Divinity and the Australian Collaborators in Feminist Theologies are launching a joint initiative to...
Rev Associate Professor Darrell Jackson I’ve been pondering this question, prompted by the simple reality that these things happen for a world also wrestling with a global pandemic. The extent of human-to-human...
Not “going to church” can make us feel really guilty, especially if we have been brought up that this was something we really ought to do. Religious observance can become a really strong force in our lives and behaviour...
"What can I do? I return to my body which slows my thoughts, soon my memories no longer disturb me, then I can look around with new eyes. All my past now appears to me as moments of consciousness." A meditation from Dr...
‘But Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?’ (John 14:5) is Thomas’ anguished cry as Jesus announced his imminent departure from the disciples in that upper room the night before his...
Times of stress often lead to periods of deep introspection. Lent is already a period set aside by the Church for reflection and thoughtfulness. This is signified by reduced or at least subdued liturgical use of music...
Sean Winter joins the podcast this week to continue our focus on 1 Peter, specifically 1 Peter 1:17-23 set for Easter 3. We talk about the nature of holiness as Peter conceives it; the way holiness refers not to...
Staying home is now our new normal. And going to church at home has become the way we belong to the Body of Christ. One of my friends said she rather enjoyed the Easter Vigil in her bedroom slippers! Life as we have...
Meditation on Hebrews 2:5-18: This passage from Hebrews was the New Testament reading set for morning prayer on the feast of the Annunciation on 25 March, and it seems appropriate not just for the feast day but also for...
Now that we’ve all been self-isolating, physical and social distancing, quarantining and staying home for over a month, we thought it was time for some fun! It’s simple. Head on over to the Jesuit College of...
Rev Dr Andrew Sloane, Morling College and member of RASP This article is reposted from The Canberra Times It’s been a long time since I worked in clinical medicine, but like all doctors, I have memories of hard...
In times of crisis, danger, and fear, the Church has frequently sought solace in Hebrew resources of lament and supplication. The psalter is one such evident resource – but it is not the only one. Rabbinic...
The following statement was released by Professor Peter Sherlock (Vice-Chancellor) and Kerrie Burn (Chair, Library Committee) on 16 April 2020. Library Research Services for Academic Staff and HDR students The...
This article is reported from blackbothy.com Several years ago, I was a minister in an inner-city community church. On the Easter weekend I am writing about, a member of our community, Davey, * had taken his own life...
To celebrate 50 episodes of the Love Rinse Repeat podcast, Liam interviewed seven guests about Jesus’ seven last words from the cross.
Over recent weeks I have watched friends, colleagues and neighbours respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in many ways. Two stand out: frenetic work to deal with endless tasks, and inactivity arising from an inability to...
This article was published by ABC Religion and Ethics Among other things, COVID-19 has brought with it an invitation to rethink what we imagine a safe society to be. It has also exposed, again, the failures of unbridled...
I chose to go to Bible and theological college in my late twenties. (In Australia, we tend to call seminaries theological colleges). I’d spent close to 10 years serving with a church planting team, and felt that I...
'The end has started': Why apocalyptic literature can offer solace during the coronavirus crisis | ABCNews, with comment from Trinity College Theological School's Reverend Professor Dorothy Lee.
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Christ’s last words on the cross in the accounts of Matthew and Mark fuse a tender, intimate address, ‘my God’, with the deep despair of abandonment. The question is not...
How’s your blood pressure? COVID-19 is leading to lock-downs the likes of which we have not seen in generations. The share market is taking everyone on a downward spiral that not even the scariest amusement park ride...
Dr Sam Curkpatrick (Tutor in Christian Theology; Curator, Hindmarsh Research Centre) As COVID19 spread beyond China, Iran’s Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi appeared on screen to provide the country with an update...
Reverend Associate Professor Glen O’Brien, Research Coordinator at Eva Burrows College and Chair of the University’s Research Committee, has contributed an entry on ‘Methodism’ to an important new two-volume reference...
Rev Associate Professor Frank Rees joins us this week to talk about preaching on Good Friday. We focus on the Hebrews readings (ch. 4 & 10) and John 18-19, discussing the strange, to modern ears, notion of...
Congratulations to Damien Arnold, appointed General Manager of Stirling Theological College.
With the outbreak of COVID-19, the world population is being asked to band together as a global community. During this time, the Dean of the Theological School at Trinity reminds us that in order to function well as a...
Planned maintenance has been scheduled for Wednesday 8 April 2020 between the hours of 5pm and 11pm AEST which will result in some university application systems being unavailable during this time. Although maintenance...
On the verge of entering into Holy Week my thoughts turned to another single-celled organism we call yeast. In ancient Israel, yeast was removed from households for the week of Passover and the Feast of Unleavened bread...
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