By the Well: A weekly podcast for preachers Alistair Macrae, minister at Wesley Uniting Church, joins Robyn & Fran to discuss discipleship, call, and repentance in Matthew 4. We discuss being disciples not admirers...
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By the WellResponding to the Royal Commission
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Peter Sherlock, presented a report to the University Council at its December 2019 meeting summarising the University’s work so far in response to the Final Report and Recommendations of...
University of DivinityScott Kirkland appointed Inaugural John and Jeanne Stockdale Chair
Trinity College Theological School | Media Release 13 January 2020 Dr Scott A. Kirkland has been appointed to the John and Jeanne Stockdale Chair (Stockdale Chair) in Practical Theology and Ethics at Trinity College’s...
Trinity College Theological SchoolEpiphany 2: John 1:29-42 with Dorothy Lee
By the Well: A weekly podcast for preachers In this episode, Dorothy Lee joins Robyn and Fran to discuss John 1:29-42 and baptism by the Holy Spirit. Desire, identity, invitational evangelism, sin, and purpose are...
Australian Bushfires – How you can help
As fires tear through Australian communities, destroying lives, homes and animals, many are wondering what they can do to help victims and support firefighters. Here’s how you can help. In addition to praying for the...
Koinonia Magazine Issue 7 Dec 2019
The Newsletter of St Athanasius College Koinonia is available in print and electronic PDF formats Featured in this issue: Congratulations to our 2019 graduates! News from Wadi al-Natrun Reflections on new subjects at...
St Athanasius College20 Australian and New Zealander Female Theologians you should get to know in 2020
By Graham Joseph Hill and Jen Barker | The Global Church Project Recently, we published “160+ Australian and New Zealander Women in Theology You Should Know About.” The post shows the quality of theological work being...
Graham Joseph HillFrom virgin births to purity movements: Christians and their problem with sex
It took 400 years, but sometime in the early fifth century Christians transformed a tradition about Jesus’s miraculous virgin birth into a doctrine that inextricably connected sex with sin. It has plagued the church...
Robyn WhitakerHow the cult of Virgin Mary turned a symbol of female authority into a tool of patriarchy
Belief in the virgin birth comes from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Their birth stories are different, but both present Mary as a virgin when she became pregnant with Jesus. Mary and Joseph begin their sexual...
Dorothy LeeProfessor Wendy Mayer appointed Dean of Research Strategy
The Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Sherlock has announced the appointment of Professor Wendy Mayer as the Dean of Research Strategy at the University of Divinity, commencing 1 February 2020. This two-year, part-time...
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...
University Gazette December 2019
The Gazette is a public document which 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 11 December...