Lecturer in New Testament

B.A.(Hons), (University of Melbourne), B.D. (Hons) (Melbourne College of Divinity), Ph.D (University of Melbourne).

Tel: 8416 8425

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I really enjoy teaching Biblical Studies. It's a privilege to do something that combines my interests (like languages, history, literature...) and my faith, as well as spend time with other people who are also on journeys of discovery.

I am married to Peter, who is an Anglican minister, and  we worship as a family in the Anglican Parish of Stirling on Sundays. I also worship regularly at Pilgrim Uniting Church, and this year I have been selected to be a candidate for the Ministry of the Word in the Uniting Church (April 2009). I am undertaking some further formation and training through Uniting College, and will continue to teach, primarily in the degree program offered through Flinders Uniting School of Theology.

Here is a list of some of my publications:

1997

Eschatology in the Making: Mark, Matthew and the Didache (SNTS Monograph Series, Cambridge University Press)
- That We May Not Lose the Way: Bible Studies of the 8th Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia, July 1997, (UTC Bible Studies, Supplement to Uniting Church Studies).
1998 'An Earth Bible Reading of the Lord's Prayer', presented as part of the launch of the Earth Bible Project at 'Beyond 2000: Theological Education in an Ecumenical, Global and Plural Context', ANZATS Conference, Melbourne, July 1998, and at 'Just Future' Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, August/September, 1998. This article prompted an interview with Margaret Coffey for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which was broadcast nationally in August as part of the Religion Report.

2000

Hope for the new millennium: a Lenten study for the year 2000, co-authored by Dr. V.S. Balabanski, Bishop Michael Putney, Rev. Dr. James McEvoy, Rev. Dr. Duncan Reid, for publication in English, Vietnamese and Italian. (Promoted for use by the National Council of Churches, Australia, in Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and New South Wales).
- 'An Earth Bible Reading of the Lord's Prayer', in The Earth Bible, Vol. 1,
Sheffield University Press.

2001

'Life-giving relationships: the Hebrew midwives confront a new time: Exodus 1:8-21', in Diakonia Occasional Papers, ed. A. McRae, no. 7.
- 'Treasure in clay jars: 2 Corinthians 4:1-11', in Diakonia Occasional Papers, ed. A. McRae, no. 7.

2002

'Opening the Closed Door: a feminist rereading of the "wise and foolish virgins", Matthew 25:1-13', The Lost Coin: Parables of Women, Work and Wisdom, Sheffield University Press, 2002.

- The Earth Bible Volume 5:The Earth Story in the New Testament, eds. Norman Habel and Vicky Balabanski, (Sheffield University Press, 2002).

- 'John One - the Earth Bible Challenge. An intra-textual approach to reading of John One', in The Earth Bible Volume 5:The Earth Story in the New Testament, eds. Norman Habel and Vicky Balabanski, (Sheffield University Press, 2002).

2003

'Food and Hospitality in the Gospel of Luke', in KUCA News SA December 2003.

2004

Review of Word, Theology, and Community in John, edited by John Painter, R. Alan Culpepper and Fernando F. Segovia (Chalice Press: St. Louis, MI, 2002) in Australian Theological Book Reviewer, June.

2005

'"Let anyone who is thirsty come to me": John 7:37-38 I dialogue with Josephus and the archaeology of aqueducts', in Lutheran Theological Journal 39 #2-3, August & December 2005.

'Mark as storyteller and artist', in Seasons of the Spirit, (Christian Board of Publications; Logos Productions Inc.; MediaCom Education Inc.; Presbyterian Church in Canada; Presbyterian Publishing Corporation; Resource Publications Inc.; Local Church Ministries, A Covenanted Ministry of the United Church of Christ, United Church Press; United Church of Canada; United Methodist Publishing House; Uniting Church in Australia and Wood Lake Books).

2006

'Exclusivism and inclusivism in the Gospel of John: John 14:6 as an interpretive test case for Christian hermeneutics.' Paper presented to a miniconference Sacred Scripture in Today's World, held in October 2006 in Adelaide through the Centre for Theology, Science and Culture.