Australian Women Preach

Third anniversary celebrations

Australian Women Preach celebrates 3 years 8 March 2024 As we marked three years of the Australian Women Preach podcast, we asked some of our preachers and listeners what the podcast means to them.

Media Release – Three years of Australian women preaching

MEDIA RELEASE – Three years of Australian Women Preaching 5 March 2024 “Having a woman’s perspective is such a game changer for me, as is just hearing a woman preach.” Trish Kelly, listener. On International Women’s Day, 8 March 2024, the podcast Australian Women Preach will celebrate three years of production and three years of […]

Sherry’s next step

Sherry’s Next Step Instruction 27 November 2023 To every single person heartbroken over the referendum outcome, Djabaguy/Okola woman, Sherry Balcombe says this: Please don’t feel bad, please don’t be ashamed! We need to turn this into an opportunity! We must keep the spotlight on the darkest corners of our country. The best thing that we […]

MEDIA RELEASE Turning the page in our nation’s history

Turning the page in our nation’s history: Sherry Balcombe preaches on the Voice to Parliament MEDIA RELEASE  10 August 2023 “We’re at an incredible time in Australia’s history, we are in history right now. We’re about to turn a page … we’re about to write a page.” Djabugay/Olkola woman Sherry Balcombe delivers a powerful case […]

MEDIA RELEASE Book Launch – In Her Voice

BOOK LAUNCH: In Her Voice – Raising Women’s Voices in Preaching the Gospel MEDIA RELEASE  1 March 2023 A book offering 28 rich theological reflections from Australian women titled In Her Voice: Raising Women’s Voices in Preaching the Gospel has been released today by Garratt Publishing. In Her Voice emerged from the Australian Women Preach […]

MEDIA RELEASE Celebrating one year of women’s voices preaching the Gospel

Celebrating one year of women’s voices preaching the Gospel  MEDIA RELEASE  8 March 2022 The Australian Women Preach podcast is celebrating one year of raising the voices of Australian Christian women preaching the Gospel. An initiative of Women and the Australian Church (WATAC) and the Grail in Australia, the podcast grew out of a desire […]

Blink and you’ll miss it: The Synod of Synodality

Blink and you’ll miss it: The Synod of Synodality Australian Women Preach team member Patricia Gemmell encourages us all to engage with the Synod on Synodality The vademecum (handbook) for the Synod on Synodality is readily available and, if you have a spare hour or two, is well worth reading.  However, let me quote a little from it […]

Reports on the Plenary Council of Australia

Reporting on the Plenary Council Australian Women Preach team member Patricia Gemmell offers this reflection on reports from the Plenary Council. The week of the Plenary Council was exhilarating, fascinating, and exhausting, as I watched the livestream events, listened to almost every media podcast on offer and read all the blogs.  By all reports, this […]

An endorsement for Australian Women Preach

An Endorsement for Australian Women Preach Thanks to Bishop of Parramatta, the Most Reverend Vincent Long Van Nguyen, for sharing this letter of support for Australian Women Preach ‘Go and tell my brothers and I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God’ At Easter Vigil, we hear these […]