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SUMMARY:Semester 1 Enrolments Are Still Available
DESCRIPTION:You are still able to enrol for Semester 1 courses\, but enrolments close on the 14th of February. Follow the link to the 2025 course guide to find the subjects you wish to study https://pilgrim.edu.au/courses/2025-course-guide/ \n 
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/semester1enrolmentsarestillavailable/
LOCATION:Victoria
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SUMMARY:Intensive - Uniting Church Theology and History
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Photographs captured at Synod 2023 by Carl Rainer.\nUnit Description \nIn this unit you will deepen your understanding of the Uniting Church and its theological and historical roots. Engage with the Basis of Union and the church’s post union life. Explore emerging theological trajectories. Reflect on women’s ordination\, cultural diversity\, commitment to reconciliation with Indigenous peoples\, and the UCA’s profile in matters of social justice. A great unit for anyone who wants to know more about the UCA or who has been called to leadership in the church\, you will hear from a range of lecturers with expertise in the life and work of the Uniting Church. \nLecturer: K Handasyde\, D Sihombing\, and D Palmer\nSemester: Semester 1\, Intensive\nSchedule: 3 – 7 & 28 February\nMode of Delivery: Face-to-face and Online Synchronous \nClick here to view this intensive in the course guide. \nTo enquire please contact: Study@Pilgrim.edu.au or phone: 9340 8892 \nUnit Delivery Notes \nStudents will attend in-person or online in real time at 9.30 am – 5 pm on Monday 3 – Friday 7 February\, and on 28 February. Resources will be provided online. This is a joint venture of Pilgrim Theological College (VIC/TAS) and United Theological College (NSW/ACT) with real-time cohorts in both Parkville and Parramatta.
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/unitingchurchtheologyandhistor/
LOCATION:Victoria
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SUMMARY:Uniting Church Ministry & Mission Day
DESCRIPTION:Uniting Church Ministry & Mission Day\nat the Centre for Theology & Ministry \nTuesday February 18\, 2025 \nRegister here: https://events.humanitix.com/uniting-church-ministry-and-mission-day \n9.30 am to 1.30 pm \n  \n9.30 am             Welcome to country\, smoking ceremony \n  \n10 am                 Worship service in Yuma Auditorium\nincluding the induction of new Synod ministry staff. \nPreacher: Rev Dr David Fotheringham\, Moderator\, VicTas Synod. \n  \n11 am                 Morning tea \n  \n11.30                  Commencement Lecture in Yuma Auditorium\nThe commencement lecture marks the beginning of the academic year for Pilgrim Theological College. \n  \n“Discipleship in a multireligious world: faithful living in the Jesus Way and gracious loving within the embrace of the Trinity.” \nRev Dr Sathianathan Clarke\, Lecturer in Theology and Mission\, United Theological College\, North Parramatta. \n  \n12.45 pm          Lunch \n  \nAbout Sathi Clarke \nSathianathan (Sathi) Clarke is Lecturer in Theology and Mission at United Theological College\, North Parramatta. \nSathi is a Presbyter of the Church of South India. He bridges the world between establishment and the marginalised\, the global and the local\, and academy and the congregation. He has taught and lectured on global Christianity\, contextual theology\, postcolonial mission\, and interreligious dialogue in India\, the U.S.A.\,\nthe U.K.\, Germany\, Sri Lanka\, Korea\, South Africa\, and Liberia. \nIn his research and teaching\, Sathi has cultivated specialties in contextual theology\, constructive global theology\, and theology of religions. From 1996-2004 he was on the faculty at United Theological College\, Bangalore. He has also been visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School and\, for the last twenty years\, the Bishop Sundo Kim Chair in World Christianity and Professor of Theology\, Culture and Mission at Wesley Theological Seminary\, Washington D.C\, a chair Sathi continues to hold in conjunction with his appointment at UTC. \n  \nFurther details will be available in early 2025. \n  \n 
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/unitingchurchministrymissionday/
LOCATION:Victoria
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Steed Davidson
DESCRIPTION:Event description\n\nBiblical Studies and the Twilight of the Humanities \nSteed V Davidson \nMonday\, 24 March 2025 \n29 College Crescent\, Parkville\, Yuma Auditorium \n7-9 pm \n\nRegistration link: https://events.humanitix.com/conversation-with-steed-davidson \n\n  \n\nSteed Vernyl Davidson\, a native of Trinidad and Tobago\, serves as the Executive Director of the Society of Biblical Literature. He has degrees from the University of West Indies and Boston University and a PhD from Union Theological Seminary. He has held teaching and administrative positions at the Pacific Lutheran Theological College (Berkeley) and McCormick Theological College (Chicago) where he taught Hebrew Bible/Old Testament through postcolonial studies. He is also ‘Extraordinary Visiting Professor\, Old Testament\,’ Department of Old and New Testament\, Stellenbosch University. \nAmong his publications are Empire and Exile: Postcolonial Readings of the Book of Jeremiah (Bloomsbury\, 2011); Writing/Reading the Bible in Postcolonial Perspective (Brill\, 2017); and the coedited volumes\, Prophetic Otherness: Constructions of Otherness in Prophetic Literature (T & T Clark\, 2021); Queering the Prophet: On Jonah\, and Other Activists (SCM Press\, 2023). \nBiblical Studies and the Twilight of the Humanities \nThe drum beats of the death of the humanities began several decades ago and have not let up. Pressures from within and without institutions dedicated to the study and learning of the human condition that hasten their decline imperil not simply disciplines\, professions\, or programs. The vitality of what it means to be human\, the expansion in the depth of human relationships\, as well as a human’s relationship with the created order are similarly threatened. Biblical Studies that explore the Bible’s ancient engagement of what it means to be human under the power of God has long contributed to the humanities and still has the potential to do even more. Deeper conversations with other disciplines including technology\, expanded public engagement\, accessible research that touches religious communities\, creative and relevant teaching in primary education provide possible paths for reinventing and sustaining Biblical Studies in an age that threats to shrink the community of the world’s people.
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/conversationwithsteeddavidson/
LOCATION:Victoria
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SUMMARY:Book Launch with Andrew Singleton Muriel Porter and Philip Hughes
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Rev Emeritus Professor Philip Hughes’ latest book\, ‘What is Happening to Religion in Australia?’ The book is written in an accessible style and is written to assist the thinking person (particularly people with a background in the Christian faith) to understand the changes which are happening in our society and how that impacts faith. The book also suggests some ways of responding to the changes.  Monday April 7th\, 4 pm to 5 pm\, Yuma auditorium\, refreshments provided – please register here \n  \nDr Muriel Porter is a Melbourne journalist\, religion commentator\, author and historian. For more than 30 years she has been a member of the Anglican Church of Australia’s General Synod. She is a prominent advocate for the full equality of women and gay people in all aspects of the church’s life\, and has written extensively about the issues facing the contemporary church. She has written many books including Land of the Spirit? The Australian Religious Experience (The Joint Board of Christian Education)\, A New Exile? The Future of Anglicanism (Morning Star Publishing)\, and The New Scapegoats: The clergy victims of the Anglican Church sexual abuse crisis (Morning Star Publishing).  \n 
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/booklaunchwithandrewsingletonmurielporterandphiliphughes/
LOCATION:Victoria
CATEGORIES:Book launch
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SUMMARY:Enrol Now For Understanding the UCA In Semester 2
DESCRIPTION:Understanding the UCA has been created around the Core Competency “Work within the doctrine\, ethos and polity of the Uniting Church” from the ‘Assembly Standards and Competencies for the Formation and Education for the Specified Ministry of Lay Preacher’ and UCA Assembly’s Standards for the Ministry if Pastor: Core Competencies’. \nUnderstanding the UCA covers: \n\nHistory of the formation of UCA\nTheological foundations of the Basis of Union\nThe place and role of key aspects of the Church’s life and witness\nUnderstanding the Councils and Ministries of the UCA\nUnderstanding the UCA’s commitment to First Nations People and Intercultural Ministry\nAct2\n\n  \nThose undertaking Understanding the UCA for assessment purposes\, must attend the tutorial and submit the given assessment. \nTo register\, click here
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/enrolnowforunderstandingtheucainsemester2/
LOCATION:Victoria
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SUMMARY:Northey Lecture - Dei Ex Machina: The Images of God in our Conceptions of AI
DESCRIPTION:Event description\n\nAI has emerged as a tool for productivity\, a threat to jobs\, and even a stand-in for God. Much of the language used to discuss AI draws on apocalyptic and prophetic discourse\, as well as on images of God rooted in divine omniscience. Rev. Dr Kristel Clayville\, a lecturer in ethics in the computer science department at University of Illinois Chicago\, suggests an alternative theological framework. \nRather than emphasising AI’s godlike powers of omniscience and control—traditionally masculine divine attributes —Clayville examines how feminine divine imagery might reshape our understanding of artificial intelligence. Could we envision AI through metaphors of nurturing\, relationship\, and collaborative wisdom instead of domination and all-knowing power? Does embracing feminine images of God offer new ways to conceptualize AI’s role and possibilities in human society? Her talk will explore this alternative and attempt to offer a different conceptual vocabulary for AI. \n\nNorthey Lecturer: Rev. Dr Kristel Clayville PhD \nRev. Dr Kristel Clayville holds a PhD in Religious Ethics from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School and completed Fellowship training in clinical medical ethics at the MacLean Center. She has served as the Acting Director of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science\, and was a Fellow in the Sinai and Synapses program. She has a clinical background as a chaplain and ethicist at the University of Chicago Medical Center. \nCurrently\, she teaches ethics in the Computer Science Department at UIC\, where she also serves on the hospital ethics committee\, and the medical school ethics education committee. Her research interests encompass the ethics of emerging (bio)technologies\, organ transplant ethics\, the role of religion in medical education\, AI and religion\, and the function of ethics committees in hospitals and tech companies. \n  \nClick here for tickets \n  \nWhen: Tuesday\, July 29 \nWhere: Pilgrim Theological College; 29 College Cres\, Parkville\, 3025 \nRefreshments available from 5pm \nLecture commences at 5.30pm \n 
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/northeylecturedeiexmachinatheimagesofgodinourconceptionsofai/
LOCATION:Victoria
CATEGORIES:Northey Lectures
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SUMMARY:Northey Lecture –  by Professor Joerg Rieger
DESCRIPTION:Event description\n\nConsidering the multiple relations of religion and power\, what difference does religion make\, for good and for ill\, and what might be the constructive contributions of theology be in fostering global solidarities? \n  \nWhy Global Solidarities are a Matter of Life and Death: The Difference Religion Can Make \nEven though the globe is moving closer together\, solidarity among people appears to become more difficult. Nationalisms\, racisms\, ethnocentrisms\, and sexisms are on the rise\, dividing and conquering and thereby producing false solidarities. While religion is often part of the problem\, it can also become part of potential solutions. As the apostle Paul observes\, “if one member suffers\, all suffer together with it” (1 Cor 12:26). This insight may hold true not only for personal relationships and communities but also for our global situation. The solidarity that emerges here goes deep\, as it reconnects us with people\, planet\, and the divine. \n\n  \nJoerg Rieger – Pilgrim Theological College \nProfessor Joerg Rieger is Distinguished Professor of Theology and the Cal Turner Chancellor’s Chair in Wesleyan Studies at Vanderbilt University. He also directs the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at the Vanderbilt Graduate Department of Religion and is an affiliated Faculty member of the Turner Family Center for Social Ventures\, Owen Graduate School of Management\, Vanderbilt University. With degrees from the Theologische Hochschule Reutlingen\, Germany\, Duke Divinity School\, and a Ph.D. in Religion and Ethics from Duke University he previously served as the Wendland-Cook Endowed Professor of Constructive Theology at Perkins School of Theology\, Southern Methodist University. Rieger’s work brings together the study of theology and the movements for liberation and justice that mark our age\, exemplified by the following questions: What are the implications of various embodiments of faith for politics\, economics\, and ecology? What options and alternatives can we envision and how might the tools of theology help us make appropriate choices? Rieger’s constructive work in theology draws on a wide range of historical and contemporary traditions\, with a concern for the roles that images of the divine play in the pressures of everyday life\, locally\, nationally\, and internationally. Rieger is the author and editor of 26 books and more than 184 academic articles\, with his most recent monograph being\, Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology\, Identity\, Class\, and Solidarity (2022).’ \n  \nGet Tickets Here \n  \nCost: Gold coin donation \nRegistrations close Monday 25 August 2025 \nFor Further Information\, Please contact \nDaniel Sihombing \nDaniel.Sihombing@pilgrim.edu.au \nMonica Jyotsna Melanchthon \nMonica.melanchthon@pilgrim.edu.au \n 
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/northeylecturejoergrieger/
LOCATION:Victoria
CATEGORIES:Northey Lectures
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SUMMARY:Conference on Gendered Violence\, Pilgrim/Wesley Centre conference
DESCRIPTION:Event description\n\nMonday 11 February to Wednesday 13 February \nWesley Centre for Ethics\, Theology and Public Policy\, with sponsorship from Pilgrim Theological College\, is running this timely conference to explore ways religion\, theology\, and culture contribute to—or help combat—gendered violence. This interdisciplinary conference will investigate the intersections of theology\, biblical interpretation\, culture\, sexism\, colonialism\, and justice. Together\, we’ll ask hard questions about gendered violence and explore resources for healing\, inclusion\, and change. In-person registrations for this event are now booked out\, however some of the sessions will be made available to view online. \nGet tickets here
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/conference-on-gendered-violence-pilgrim-wesley-centre-conference/
LOCATION:Victoria
CATEGORIES:Public event
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SUMMARY:Ministry and Mission Day - opening the year at the CTM
DESCRIPTION:Event description\n\nTuesday 17 February\, 9.30 am – 1 pm  \nThis event marks the opening of the academic year for Pilgrim Theological College and includes the Synod’s induction of Rev Professor Kylie Crabbe as Head of College. We begin the day at 9.30 am with a smoking ceremony and Welcome to Country. The worship service at 10 am will feature preacher Rev Dr Vicky Balabanski\, Principal at Uniting College for Leadership & Theology\, Adelaide. At 11.30 am Kylie Crabbe will deliver her inaugural lecture as Professor.
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/ministry-and-mission-day-opening-the-year-at-the-ctm/
LOCATION:Victoria
CATEGORIES:Public event
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260226T190000
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SUMMARY:Northey Lecture: Dr Laura Rademaker and Poetry Reading: Alison Overeem
DESCRIPTION:Event description\n\nNorthey Lecture – ‘Providence and possession: how colonial concepts of religion explained away a genocide’\nThis two-part event begins at 7pm Thursday 26 February at Pilgrim Theological College. \nSupper is provided. All welcome! Join in person or online. \nRegister online here \nAcknowledgement of Country and Poetry Reading by Alison Overeem (Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress\, Tasmania)\n \nAlison is a proud palawa woman and Leprena Centre Manager (UAICC). Leprena is a lead provider of cultural and spiritual learning and immersion\, uniting First and Second Peoples through Tasmanian Aboriginal culture\, and the National UAICC story\, across the nation. Alison will share a poem with us and lead us in an Acknowledgement of Country. \nNorthey Lecture: ‘Providence and possession: how colonial concepts of religion explained away a genocide’ by Associate Professor Laura Rademaker (Australian National University)\n \nWhen settlers came to Australia\, many believed in a God-given duty to “fill'” and “subdue the earth” through agriculture and the supposed failure of First Nations people to do this. But the colonists also drew on other religious and biblical ideas to frame themselves in relation to First Nations people.  This lecture will trace the ways that First Nations people’s supposed “forgetting” of true religion was used to excuse the rapid First Nations population decline\, and the implications of this history for us today. \nThis lecture will also be part of the Pilgrim unit\, Respecting Country: Deep history\, the colonies and the church \nContact us to enrol in the unit – study@pilgrim.edu.au  
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/northey-lecture-dr-laura-rademaker-and-alison-overeem/
LOCATION:Victoria
CATEGORIES:Northey Lectures
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260412
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SUMMARY:Talanoa Oceania
DESCRIPTION:Event description\n\nThursday 9 April to Saturday 11 April\nTalanoa 2026 will be a platform for folx to talanoa (tell storied realities\, invite conversations\, explore ways forward) around the “arts of negotiation” in/from their life situations\, and to unpack the “gifts in negotiation” for their communities and for the rest of us. \nThe theme for this conference is “negotiation\,” and there will be keynotes (2)\, presentations (24)\, and panels (4). The keynotes will address “Indigenous justice” (from UAICC) and “Migration and Climate justice” (MP Anasina Gray-Barberio). \nThe presentations will address topics in the general areas of Pasifika cultures\, theology\, bible\, climate justice\, pastoral care\, CPE\, art\, queer\, decolonization\, gender justice\, youth justice\, and more. The panels will be on “Justice matters\,” “Negotiating identities in diaspora\,” “Raising families in diaspora\,” and “Youth matter!” \nRegistration link: https://events.humanitix.com/talanoa-2026/tickets \nThursday\, 9 April 12pm–8pm\nCanterbury Balwyn Uniting Church\n15A Balwyn Rd\, Canterbury 3126 \nFriday\, 10 April 9am–8pm\nCentre for Theology and Ministry\n29 College Crescent\, Parkville 3052 \nSaturday\, 11 April 9am–4pm\nCentre for Theology and Ministry\n29 College Crescent\, Parkville 3052 \nCost\nRegistration fee includes conference materials and meals. \nFull cost $ 120 \nStudent $ 50 \n14yo and under $ 1 \nRegistration link: https://events.humanitix.com/talanoa-2026/tickets
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/talanoa-oceania/
LOCATION:Centre for Theology & Ministry\, 29 College Cres\, Parkville\, VIC\, 3052\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Public event
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SUMMARY:Understanding UCA Covenanting and Intercultural Enrichment Day
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a day seminar on Understanding UCA Covenanting and Intercultural Enrichment. This day is set aside for anyone wanting to further their own knowledge on the Uniting Church’s Covenanting relationship and our intercultural relatedness and ministries.  This day is particularly useful for anyone enrolled in the Understanding UCA (ULVT2) unit. \nRegister here.
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/understanding-uca-covenanting-and-intercultural-enrichment-day/
LOCATION:Centre for Theology & Ministry\, 29 College Cres\, Parkville\, VIC\, 3052\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Lay Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260721T193000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260721T213000
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SUMMARY:Live reading of Mark’s Gospel
DESCRIPTION:In a candle lit church\, gather with others to hear the whole of Mark’s Gospel read aloud in one evening. There will be mulled wine\, space for reflection\, and gentle silence. Whether you are spiritual-not-religious\, part of a faith community\, or simply curious to hear this ancient text come alive\,  you are welcome. \nWhere: Brunswick Uniting Church \nWhen: 7.30pm Tuesday 21st July \nCost: Free \n  \nTo register\, click here
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/live-reading-of-marks-gospel/
LOCATION:Brunswick Uniting Church\, 214 Sydney Road Brunswick\, Victoria\, Australia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260821
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260822
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SUMMARY:Annual Janette Gray RSM Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Save the date! Pilgrim is proud to be hosting the annual Janette Gray RSM Lecture on Friday 21 August 2026.  This year\, the lecture will be delivered by Dr Mary Kate Holman in celebration of the first decade of the Australian Collaborators in Feminist Theologies.  \nDr Mary Kate Holman is a scholar of contemporary Catholic theology. She holds a BA from Georgetown University\, an MTS from Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry\, and a PhD from Fordham University. Prior to her arrival at Fairfield\, Dr. Holman was Assistant Professor of Theology at Benedictine University in the suburbs of Chicago. Dr. Holman’s teaching interests include Feminist Theology\, Ignatian Spirituality\, Vatican II\, and Spirituality & Social Justice. Her research interests encompass Ecclesiology\, Nouvelle Théologie\, Marie-Dominique Chenu\, Vatican II\, and Feminist Theology. \nDr. Holman will publish Marie-Dominique Chenu and the Signs of the Times through University of Notre Dame Press in 2025. She published an English translation of Chenu’s Saulchoir: A School of Theology with Joseph Komonchak in 2023. Dr. Holman’s writing has appeared in the Journal of Jesuit Higher Education\, Theological Studies\, and Commonweal. \nIn a time marked by intersecting crises\, narratives of disaster and nevertheless deep possibilities\, we invite fresh perspectives to enact and sustain hope and courage. \nWhere and why does hope flourish? What sustains commitment and resistance in times of trial? What space can be made for dissonance and dissent? How do people engage and encourage others of like mind and heart? What resources can we find in our contexts and traditions? How do communities cultivate creative practices of transformation? To what are we called? \nRegistration information to follow. \nNote\, this lecture also coincides with the launch of the 2027 ACFT Art Exhibition based on the theme of this years’ conference\, “Imagine Something Else: Communities\, Creativity\, Resistance”.
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/jan-gray-lecture-by-dr-holman/
LOCATION:Centre for Theology & Ministry\, 29 College Cres\, Parkville\, VIC\, 3052\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Public event
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SUMMARY:National Lay Preachers Conference
DESCRIPTION:Event description\n\nFriday 4 September to Sunday 6 September \nThe Victoria Tasmania Lay Preachers Association is hosting this conference focused on the Assembly theme\, Threads of Love: Weaving Christ’s love across cultures and boundaries.
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/national-lay-preachers-conference/
LOCATION:Victoria
CATEGORIES:Public event
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