Australian Women Preach

• 210. Final reflections: Four years of women preaching

  Tracy, Tricia and Louise reflect the origins of the Australian Women Preach and discuss what's next for the team behind the podcast.Tracy McEwan (PhD) is a theologian and sociologist of religion and gender at the University of Newcastle. Her writing and research interests include women in Catholicism; gendered violence; church participation, generations, and life stage. Tracy’s monograph Women and the Catholic Church:Negotiating Identity and Agency will be published open-access with Bloomsbury Academic on 24 April 2025 https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-and-the-catholic-church-9781350424821/Patricia Gemmell is a wife, mother and grandmother, andsemi-retired teacher of French, Latin and Italian.  She also has a Masters degree in Theology.  She belongs to the Grail, an international movement and community of women, and recently served 8 years on their National Leadership Team.  An active member of her parish community in Sydney for nearly 40 years, she is currently the co-ordinator of their Laudato Si’ Action Platform group.  Caring deeply about church reform she has been fully engaged in both the Australian Plenary Council and the Synod on Synodality and is also one of the working team responsible for AustralianWomen Preach, a weekly podcast of a woman preaching on the Sunday gospel.  Louise Maher worked for many years in radio as a journalist, producer and presenter, including 25 years with the ABC. She created a podcast series for the Australian War Memorial and an oral history app for the National Portrait Gallery. Louise is an Accredited Editor and has a Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing from Sydney University.

  --------  

  13:13
• 209. Andrea Dean - 9 March 2025

  First Sunday of Lent - Luke 4:1-13 Andrea Dean is the current president of WATAC. She has been a keen supporter of women through her work in education, ministry and spirituality. She lives and works in Canberra, having spent more than 25 years as a Sister of St Joseph of Goulburn. Andrea grew up on Wiradjuri country, in the village of Adelong, NSW.

  --------  

  10:52
• 208. Josephine Armour - 2 March 2025

  Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Luke 6:39-45 - You are the greatest project you will ever work on. Dr Josephine Armour is a retired Anglican priest and former Dominican Sister from Adelaide, where she has been a teacher for much of her working life. Jo has been the parish priest at St Chad’s Anglican church until her recent retirement. She lectures in systematic theology at St Barnabas College and is the author of “Call No One on Earth Your Father”. Her interests include walking, swimming and hula-hooping.

  --------  

  10:44
• 207. Mikali Anagnostis - 23 February 2025

  Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Luke 6:27-38 - Love your enemies be compassionate Mikali (they/them) is a candidate for ministry in the NSW/ACT Synod of the Uniting Church. They write for the sacred arts collective Marion St, which creates worship music centring voices from the margins of the church. As a trans-femme non-binary person, Mikali is passionate about inclusive spiritual community and worship music that reflects lived experience. Mikali lives on Dharug and Gundungurra Country, where they love growing food and river swimming.

  --------  

  12:54
• 206. Bei-En Zou - 16 February 2025

  Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Luke 6:17, 20-26 Bei-En Zou studies theology at Catholic Theological College in Melbourne. She was nourished in the Protestant tradition, and serves as a licensed lay minister in an Anglican church called St. James' Old Cathedral, in West Melbourne. In the past she has worked in university student ministry, and in ministry in supporting Christian city workers. She loves learning, teaching, writing and preaching, and encouraging and enabling other women who love the same.

  --------  

  15:43

More Religion & Spirituality podcasts

Trending Religion & Spirituality podcasts

About Australian Women Preach