About me

I am a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia, living in Armidale, NSW, Australia. I have a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from the University of Sydney, a Graduate Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics from Queensland Institute (now University) of Technology and a Bachelor of Divinity and Theol M Qual from Melbourne College of Divinity. I did my theological study at the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne, a joint venture between

• The Jesuit Theological College of the Society of Jesus incorporated in Victoria.
• Trinity College Theological School (Anglican Province of Victoria)
• The Uniting Church Theological College (Synod of Victoria and Tasmania).

I am enrolled part time in a PhD program in Studies in Religion,  at the University of New England in Armidale, where I live. I began it while I was the Uniting Church chaplain to the University. My thesis is looking at the parables of the Reign (Kingdom) of God that appear in the Gospel of Thomas and comparing them with their parallels in the Synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). I am interested in what we can learn from them about the Thomas community. You can find out more about all this from the next tab.

I also like to cook, sew, read (mainly fantasy fiction and theology although I’m also quite fond of Phryne Fisher, Maisie Hobbs and the No 1 Women’s Detective Agency), walk (but not alone) and watch movies and discuss them. I’m interested in peace, social justice, ecotheology, feminist theology and multifaith dialogue. I’ve been married for over 20 years and am the mother of a teenager and a twenty-two-year-old, both living at home with us. The younger one has just finished high school and the older one works at the university, using his computer science degree.

The photo on this blog is of a waterfall in the Japanese gardens at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. I took it in July 2000 when I was there for a global university chaplains’ conference. I enjoyed both the conference and the gardens.