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School of Indigenous StudiesScraps 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.
Garry Worete Deverell
Preaching from the Heart | Call for Sermons
Australian churches are called to engage with the Statement from the Heart in the context of an historic referendum for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. The response of this project is to produce an Australian...
University of Divinity
Watch sessions from a Statement from the Heart workshop
On February 15, 2023 , Professor Anne Pattel-Gray and the Rev Canon Dr Garry Deverell (from the University’s School of Indigenous Studies) presented at a Statement From the Heart workshop hosted in Adelaide by Churches...
“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...
History, Truth Telling, and The Uluru Statement from the Heart (watch recording)
Watch the recording from the webinar 'History, Truth Telling, and The Uluru Statement from the Heart', presented on 21 July 2022.
By the Well: B127 – Pentecost 5 (Proper 8)
Reverend Dr Garry Worete Deverell joins By the Well podcast this week to discuss themes of vulnerability and weakness in 2 Cor 8:7-15 and Mark 5:21-43
New Indigenous Studies Centre to be established
Australia’s oldest and largest theological school, the University of Divinity, will at the end of 2021 launch a new Indigenous Studies Centre. Through the Centre, the University’s students, graduates, teachers and...
Lucy DavisonOn 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.