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When Stories Collide: A Relationship Between Women Centuries Apart
(Routledge, 2025) Lambert, Catherine; Kadmos, Helena; Uniting College for Leadership and Theology
Collisions are often perceived as causing damage and harm, however, when two objects collide there can also be transformation. Direction can change, velocity is altered, and energy is spent and gained. This is what occurred when the stories of three beguine mystics from the thirteenth century collided with the experiences of a group of contemporary Australian women. This chapter explores how both groups of women were transformed by the encounter.
Roger Marston and the Potential for a ‘Pastoral Academic’
(Brill, 2026-09) Beckmann, Matthew; Michael Cusato; Jens Röhrkasten; Yarra Theological Union
Gray, Emma
Covenanting Conversions
(2026-06) Dewerse, Rosemary; Uniting College for Leadership and Theology
I am convinced that if the Uniting Church in Australia is genuinely to make good on our “Covenanting Statement,” signed with the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC) over thirty years ago, it will never be enough for we who are Second Peoples to revisit our words, and to review and reimagine our actions. We also must open ourselves to conversions in our Christian worldview. Emerging from years of friendship with two Elders from the UAICC in South Australia have been provocations for my theological and missiological assumptions about Emmanuel, the Kingdom of God, and the concept of mission. I reflect on them here in the hope of contributing to our ongoing journey as Covenanting partners.
The Promise and the Blessing: Presentation Sisters in Victoria Since Vatican II
(Garratt Publishing, 2026-03-18) Massam, Katharine; University of Divinity
In the six decades since the Second Vatican Council, the Presentation Sisters in Victoria, Australia, have negotiated change in their way of life, their understanding of who God is, and of how God calls them to be. They have renewed their understanding of their particular presence in the Church as a gift to the wider world. They have spoken of that presence, their vision and mission, in various ways. This account maps the shared Presentation conversation as it moves, not uniformly but steadily, from 'school' through 'ministry' to 'contemplative engagement' and 'legacy', woven through with a stable commitment to 'women' and 'family' and the overarching Mystery of their call.