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Putting Christian Leadership in Its Place: Towards a Critical Topography of Religious Leading
(2026-07) Shakespeare, Lyndon; St Barnabas College
This presentation proposes a framework oriented around a central question: Where does Christian leadership come from? The proposal developed here weaves together three threads of inquiry and practice: a topological imagination, a pneumatology of place‑making, and reflexive practices. In brief, these threads correspond to place (topos), dwelling (oikos), and reflexivity (phronesis). Together, they offer a way of thinking about Christian leading that is spatial, communal, and critically self‑aware. Conventional leadership models such as adaptive leadership, transformational leadership, and servant leadership each offer important insights. Yet all three tend to assume that leadership can be abstracted from place and transferred across contexts. As a result, place becomes a backdrop rather than constitutive reality, and the leader’s own embeddedness in place disappears from view. My purpose is to build on and deepen the long-standing concern with contextualization and local approaches to Christian life and practice, and to better align an account of Christian leading with the necessary and growing shift towards questions of place as part of the larger decolonial efforts within the Western theological imagination.
Enhancing Discoverability of Digital Library Collections through Targeted Wikimedia Projects: The Australian Women in Religion WikiProject and the University of Divinity Library Experience
(2026-10-29) Burn, Kerrie; University of Divinity
The Australian Women in Religion (AWR) WikiProject addresses gender bias on Wikipedia by creating and improving articles about Australian women influenced by religious or spiritual traditions. A 2023 Wikimedia Australia grant enabled the University of Divinity to expand this work through two key initiatives: developing a project that used multiple Wikimedia platforms (notably Wikipedia and Wikidata) to enhance the discoverability of digitised library collections, and appointing a Wikimedian-in-Residence (WiR) to facilitate it. Over four months, the AWR project leader and WiR collaborated on a model inspired by international GLAM–Wikimedia partnerships, focusing on digitised materials about Australian women in religion, including the Movement for the Ordination of Women and early Christian feminist groups. By leveraging the reach of Wikipedia and related platforms, the project enhances access to unique collections and demonstrates pathways for future Wikimedia collaborations within the global GLAM sector.
Two Trees: An Overly-generous Metaphor?
(2026) Couchman, Adam; St Francis College
A contribution to a book forum on Garry Deverell's "Gondwana Theology"
Brophy, Anne
Eavesdropping on Karl Barth: Occasional Essays
(ATF Press, 2026-10-03) Thompson, Geoff; Pilgrim Theological College
The book is a collection of my own essays, both previously-published and new.The title points to the mode of my engagement with Barth. Just as Barth exhorted the church to “eavesdrop in the world at large” to listen for the Word of God in surprising and unexpected places, so I have eavesdropped on some of the unexpected places in Barth’s own theology and discerned some surprising wisdom. The essays cover issues such apophaticism and the nature of theological discourse, cultural crisis, religious alterity, the non-human creation, post-truth, the nature of Christian solidarity with the world, and the nature and functions of dogmatics.