Last week, church leaders in Victoria offered evidence about the abusive histories of their churches with Aboriginal people before a public commission.
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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.