The NAIDOC Theme for 2021 is “Healing Country”. Country needs to be understood as more than just a place. Country encompasses every aspect of an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person's life. When we think...
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Naomi Wolfe
National Reconciliation Week 2021
"Reconciliation takes action gives us the perfect opportunity for non-Indigenous people to take some time to do their own education – attending public events, checking out library resources, reading up on their local...
National Sorry Day
As Sorry Day approaches again for another year, it is still important to remember that Stolen Generation members are still directly affected by these past policies, that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities...
On 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.
Garry Worete Deverell
‘Boundless plains to share’: Why the National Anthem supports and encourages Australia’s original sin
Rev Dr Garry Deverell (Vice-Chancellor's Fellow in Indigenous Theologies) on why the National Anthem supports and encourages Australia’s original sin.
Singing Bones: Ancestral Creativity and Collaboration
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...
Samuel Curkpatrick
Common Grace: Walk together this Reconciliation Week
Common Grace is a movement of Christians who are passionate about Jesus and justice. Led by UD alumna and current student Brooke Prentis, this National Reconciliation Week, Common Grace is curating resources to help...
University of Divinity
Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow in Indigenous Theology
The Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Sherlock has announced the appointment of Rev Dr Garry Deverell as the inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow in Indigenous Theology at the University of Divinity. This new part-time...
Semester 2 unit: The Art of Reconciliation
This unit explores the possibilities and challenges of growing into agents of reconciliation in Australia today.
Stirling College
Breakthrough on teaching theology through Indigenous eyes
Kaylee Payne, 9 April 2019 This article was originally published on Eternitynews.com.au Uncle Ray Minniecon, an elder statesman and Aboriginal pastor from Sydney, has knocked on the doors of Australian theological...
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