Events – Pitt Street Uniting Church

A 3-part series which breaks open some of the wisdom, knowledge, and direction for living to be discovered in listening to country.
Walk with and learn from Aboriginal presenters who will share from their lived experience, their research and their integration of Christian theology with indigenous spirituality.
Sponsored by Pitt St Uniting Church, Eremos, St James Institute, and Wellspring in collaboration with the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Divinity.

Coming up

Session 2 Sunday 11 August 2-4pm
Professor Dr Anne Pattel-Gray: Aboriginal Spirituality and Connection to Country.

Professor Anne Pattel-Gray was appointed Professor of Indigenous Studies and inaugural Head of the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Divinity and commenced the role in August 2022. She is a descendant of the Bidjara / Kari Kari people of Queensland and a celebrated Aboriginal leader.

Session 3 Sunday 8 September 2-4pm
Nathan Tyson: Acknowledging Country: Way forward to Reconciliation

Nathan is currently the Manager, First Peoples Strategy and Engagement with the Uniting Church in Australia’s Synod of NSW and the ACT. He is an Aboriginal man of Anaiwon/Gomeroi descent, who has lived most of his life in Sydney.

Previously

Session 1 Sunday 21 April 2-4pm
Rev Dr Garry Worete Deverell presenting: Christ as country: Aboriginal spirituality and Christianity in conversation

A trawloolway man, from northern lutruwita (Tasmania), Rev Dr Garry Deverell is Academic Dean, Lecturer, and Research Fellow in the new School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Divinity, which he helped to found. Garry’s recent research has turned towards theologising the experience of Indigenous peoples within and beyond the colonial church.