The ADM Annual Public Lecture recognises and provides a platform for Christian women who are established leaders in their field and who have developed a distinctive approach to engaging our world with the good news of Jesus. The Lecture serves the church and wider public in Sydney and beyond by inviting lecturers who can enrich the public conversation about Christianity and who can inspire and equip Christians with imaginative ways to make the gospel intelligible in their own spheres.
Watch the Annual Public Lecture delivered by Stephanie Kate Judd
Welcome, announcement of the 2022 ADM Fellows and interview with 2021 Fellow Dr Ruth Lukabyo
Q & A Session with Stephanie Kate Judd
Vote of Thanks from Sandy Grant, Dean of Sydney
The Dignity of Our Limits
The emotional register of the past year or more has been dominated by fear and frustration, disappointment and despair. Plans in disarray, divisions inflamed, grief pervasive, our resilience is exhausted and so are we. The constraints imposed on us have forced us to grapple with uncomfortable realities in our common life, in our relationships, and in our selves.
Moments like this afford each of us an opportunity for reflection and introspection into how we are to think about the limitations that are inherent to human life.
In this Annual Lecture traversing law and literature, philosophy and politics, boundaries and bioethics, Stephanie invites you to come alongside her as she explores what it is to be human and finite and very much out of control.
Rather than resisting and railing against them, she suggests that perhaps it is in embracing our frailties and limitations that we come to inhabit a fuller, truer version of humanity – one that befits the dignity bestowed on each of us by a loving Creator and illuminates our place within the Christian story.
Stephanie Kate Judd
Stephanie Kate Judd is a lawyer based on Gadigal land in Sydney. She briefly read theological studies in Oxford, where she pursued an academic interest in disability, dignity, and human rights. Her abiding interest in limitations stems from her experience of living with a physical disability for more than half her life. She has been an ADM Senior Fellow in 2021 and has relished the opportunity to spend more time writing for a broad public readership. Stephanie has written on human dignity in aged care for Eternity, life in lockdown for the Sydney Morning Herald, hosted an episode of Undeceptions podcast on unhealthy anger and most recently has had a poem published in Meanjin.
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