Women in the Church Webinar

Sally Douglas
Sally is a Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies within the University of Divinity, Melbourne, a Uniting Church Minister, a theologian, and an author. She engages with New Testament texts, the work of early church authors, and with Womanist and Feminist readings, as she attends to minimised sources and contemporary questions of theology. Her recent publications include Rewilding Prayer: God Beyond Gender, Faith Beyond Formulas (2025); Jesus Sophia: Returning to Woman Wisdom in the Bible, Practice and Prayer (2023); and Newborn Babies and Nursing Jesus (1 Peter 2.2-3): The Petrine Metaphor’s Disruption of Patriarchal Renderings of God and the Child – Biblical Theology Bulletin.

Kate Fogarty
Kate is currently the Director of Catholic Education for the Diocese of Sandhurst in Victoria. Her previous roles have included 9 years as Principal of Assumption College Kilmore, and St Joseph’s College Echuca. She has qualifications in Education, Theology and Management and strongly believes that all students, wherever they are, deserve the best education possible.

Claire Victory
Claire is an employment lawyer working in industrial relations roles, acting for employers, workers, insurers and union members. She was the first female president of the St Vincent de Paul Society, Australia and is currently the one of the regional presidents of SVdP in South Australia.

Kevin Liston
Kevin is Co-chair, CAC (Formerly, ACCCR). He recently said,
‘There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.’ (Gal 3: 28).
The aspiration for equality goes back to the beginning. Will we see it in this generation? In the meantime, women are increasingly the energy and drivers of Church evolution in this change of era.