Your chance to walk in the footsteps of Jesus: Holy Land tour June 2022
This year we are hosting a pilgrimage and study tour of the Holy Land and you have the chance to join us.
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News
There's always something happening at Trinity College.
Stay up-to-date with our latest news and keep an eye on our busy events calendar, which includes events for current students, staff, alumni & friends of Trinity College and the general public.
Event photos can be found on Trinity College's Facebook page and via My Trinity Connect. Videos can be viewed on our YouTube channel.
24 Feb 2022
02 Feb 2022
From refugee camp to Bishop: the inspiring story of Jacob Deng Garang Akech
Deng Garang Akech Kuch (later to be known as Jacob) started believing in God because he could see no other way of surviving. Now, he can’t believe how far his faith has taken him.
Category: Theological School
31 Jan 2022
How did early Christianity deal with pleasure?
Janette Gray scholarship recipient and PhD student Julia Thwaites shares why she traded a career in visual arts to pursue theological study, and the reason she chose to examine the intersection between pleasure, sin and repression.
Category: Theological School
13 Jan 2022
What is beauty? And how does it relate to creation? Laura is on a mission to find out.
For Laura Cerbus, there’s something magnetic about ‘Trinity’. She attended Trinity Secondary School, then Trinity School for Ministry, both in Pennsylvania, and is now commencing the next step of her study journey at Trinity College Theological School in Melbourne, looking into the complexity of ‘beauty’.
Category: Theological School
15 Dec 2021
It hasn't been (and often still isn't) easy for women in the church: Colleen O'Reilly reflects
Trinity College’s outgoing Chaplain, the Revd Canon Dr Colleen O’Reilly AM, highlights the past – and ongoing – struggle of women in the church.
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07 Dec 2021
Looking back on 2021: Theological School
Our Theological School's student president Xeverie Swee provides a reflection on the year.
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28 Sep 2021
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer: Navigating religious love and enmity
'Us' and the 'other'; neighbours and enemies. The Revd Dr Chris Porter considers how we know who to love and how to love them.
Category: Theological School
13 Sep 2021
IHEA welcomes University of Divinity as a new member
Independent Higher Education Australia (IHEA) has welcomed the University of Divinity to its membership base. Trinity College Theological School offers accredited courses through the University of Divinity.
Category: Theological School
04 Jun 2021
Be open to doubt: Why we need more Hans in our lives
The Revd Prof Mark Lindsay discusses Catholic controversialist Prof Hans Küng’s resistance to dogmatic certainty and openness to doubt.
Category: Theological School
25 Mar 2021
What is Holy Week?
Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday – Holy Week is marked out with a number of ‘days’, but do you know what they all represent? The Dean of our Theological School Bob Derrenbacker helps break it down.
Category: Theological School
12 Mar 2021
Churches going digital in a post-pandemic world
The Revd Dr Fergus King, along with Dr Srebrenka Kunek, consider how the modern digital environment, prompted by COVID-19, has offered the opportunity for the church to reflect on what 'real', 'presence' and 'absence' mean.
Category: Theological School
15 Feb 2021
Pancakes, ashes and lockdown: the meaning behind Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday
Trinity College Chaplain the Revd Dr Colleen O’Reilly AM explains the history of and meaning behind Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, including why Christians eat pancakes and where the ash received on foreheads comes from.
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18 Dec 2020
New partnership between Anglican theological schools
Trinity College Theological School, the University of Divinity and Perth’s Wollaston Theological College will partner in 2021.
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16 Dec 2020
2020 student reflection – Theological School
Kirsty Beilharz reflects on her year of remote learning through Trinity’s Theological School.
Category: Theological School
26 Nov 2020
Is the same-sex marriage debate going to break up Australia's Anglican Church?
The Revd Canon Prof Dorothy Lee, Trinity's Stewart Research Professor of New Testament, and Dr Muriel Porter, Honorary Research Fellow at the Trinity College Theological School, pose the question on The Conversation of whether the Anglican Church is about to split.
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