We’re excited to announce that our first online gathering is coming up at the end of this month.
Join us on July 26th as we discuss ideas and strategies for practicing care and compassion (for ourselves and others) as we do ministry, theology and various forms of social research with church communities.
Date:
Wednesday 26th July
Time:
9:30am (BST) | 6:30pm (AEST) | 8:30pm (NZST)
Our online gathering is designed to be a supportive, informative and friendly space, where we can learn and grow together.
We’re incredibly lucky to have Safina Stewart, Emily Colgan, Karl Hand and Sarah-Jane Page* join us to share their ideas, research and wisdom.
The event is free, but you do need to register. You can register here, or by scanning the QR code above.
* edited – You may have seen earlier promotional material on social media announcing that Karen O’Donnell would be part of this event. Unfortunately Karen has had to have emergency surgery so she is no longer able to speak at this event. We’re looking forward to working with Karen in the future.
Meet the speakers:
Safina Stewart (she/her) is a proud Wuthithi & Mabuiag Island woman, artist & educator. She is the Relationships & Story Telling coordinator for Common Grace. You can find out about Safina’s art here. Safina will speak about solitude, vulnerability, self-awareness and creative practice.
Emily Colgan (she/her) is Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Trinity Theological College in Auckland, Aotearoa. Her research focuses on the ways in which biblical texts inform communities in the present. She is particularly interested in biblical depictions of sexual violence. Her publications in this area include a multi-volume work, which she co-edited with Caroline Blyth and Katie Edwards entitled Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion (Palgrave, 2018).Emily will be speaking about a resource she recently launched entitled Accompanying Survivors of Sexual Harm: A Toolkit for Churches.
Karl Hand (he/him). Raised in the Pentecostal tradition, Karl is now the pastor of Crave Church in the CBD of Warrane/Sydney on Gadigal country. Crave Church is a Metropolitan Community Church (a queer-centered church tradition of inclusive and liberating faith community). Karl will be talking about queering care, and focussing on the intersections and creative tensions between a feminist care ethic, and queer care praxeis.
Sarah-Jane Page (she/her) is a sociologist of religion, based at Aston University, UK.
She will be talking about doing research on trauma & religious harm & what resources are needed to ensure researchers are supported.
You can find out more about Sarah-Jane’s work here.
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