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Understanding Bipolar - 2021 Fellow Rev. Lily Strachan writes for the Mental Health and Pastoral Care Institute
2021 ADM Fellow Rev. Lily Strachan shares her experience of living with bipolar and helps other to better understand and support those living with mental illness, across two articles for the Mental Health and Pastoral Care Institute.
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Small ways to welcome people with disabilities in our churches - 2022 ADM Senior Fellow Marlies Hartkamp in The Gospel Coalition
2022 ADM Senior Fellow Marlies Hartkamp highlights the importance of welcoming people with disabilities in our churches, and offers three small ways for churches to get started.
Helping change problematic college cultures - 2022 ADM Senior Fellow Dr Katrina Clifford on Hope 103.2 FM
2022 ADM Senior Fellow Dr Katrina Clifford was interviewed for International Women’s Day, and shares about her work on changing the problematic culture in some university residential colleges, and growing leadership opportunities for young women.
Rethink how we hear God’s word - 2020 ADM Senior Fellow Amanda Mason in Sydney Anglicans
2020 ADM Senior Fellow Amanda Mason spoke with Sydney Anglicans about how oral-based Bible studies can help people from diverse backgrounds access God’s word in community with other Christians.
The mental muscles we need to flourish in a pandemic - 2021 ADM Senior Fellow Stephanie Kate Judd in Eternity News
2021 ADM Senior Fellow Stephanie Kate Judd speaks with Eternity News about her upcoming Annual Public Lecture, and how accepting our limitations can help us to engage with the challenges we face in new ways.
The role and value of chaplains in the ambulance service.
2020 ADM Senior Research Fellow Katie Tunks Leach shares her research on pastoral and spiritual care provided by chaplains to the ambulance service. She continues to work with both paramedics and chaplains to understand how to best ‘care for the carers’ in this challenging profession.
My fiancé called off our wedding, then the pandemic struck - 2021 ADM Senior Fellow Stephanie Kate Judd in The Sydney Morning Herald
2021 ADM Senior Fellow Stephanie Kate Judd shares her personal experiences of coping with a major life upheaval in the early days of the COVID-19, and reminds us that “it is through hardship, not ease, that we become brighter versions of ourselves.”
Intimacy in a time of pandemic - 2019 ADM Senior Research Fellow Rev. Dr Dani Treweek in ABC's Religion and Ethics
2019 ADM Senior Research Fellow Rev. Dr Dani Treweek asks how we can help to look after the mental well-being of single person households (1 in 5 of all Sydney households) during lockdowns, and argues that it involves recognising a genuine breadth of relationships as being wonderfully essential to life.
Raising kids who care - 2020 ADM Summer Fellow Susy Lee releases new book
2020 ADM Summer Fellow Susy Lee spent her time at ADM working on a project titled ‘Raising kids who care: Investing in families for the Kingdom of God’. That project has turned into a published book that resources parents with research and a vision for better ways to ensure happy kids through gratitude, caring and contribution.
Unhealthy anger - 2021 ADM Senior Fellow Stephanie Kate Judd on the Undeceptions podcast
2021 ADM Senior Fellow Stephanie Kate Judd joins John Dickson’s Undeceptions podcast and tackles the topics of sexism, anger and how Jesus makes all the difference for her.
Writing, mental illness and moral imagination .
How can stories help us – and help young people – navigate a sometimes lonely world?
As part of RN's Big Weekend of Books, award-winning YA author and 2020 ADM Senior Creative Fellow, Claire Zorn, joins Dr Meredith Lake, 2017 ADM Senior Research Fellow, to discuss writing, faith, the ethics of imagination, and her own sometimes difficult experience of learning to find her place in the world.
Faith in fiction - 2020 ADM Senior Creative Fellow Claire Zorn in Sydney Anglicans
Sydney Anglican’s Judy Adamson spoke to four writers who attend Sydney Anglican churches, including 2020 ADM Senior Creative Fellow Claire Zorn. They share their perspectives on why they write and the impact their faith has on their work.
Friendship and faith with Southeast Asians - 2020 ADM Senior Research Fellow Amanda Mason in Sydney Anglicans
2020 ADM Senior Research Fellow, Amanda Mason, shares five helpful things for Christians to consider about Southeast Asian culture before they jump into sharing their faith.
Women’s stories can make a difference, but only if men will hear them - 2020 ADM Senior Creative Fellow Claire Zorn in ABC's Religion and Ethics
2020 ADM Senior Creative Fellow, Claire Zorn writes for ABC’s Religion & Ethics on why reading fiction is an exercise in empathy and the need for boys and men to imagine, so they can understand and drive change themselves.
Why celibacy isn’t extraordinary - 2019 ADM Senior Research Fellow Rev. Dr Dani Treweek in Southern Cross
2019 ADM Senior Research Fellow, Rev. Dani Treweek, reflects on singleness, celibacy and why celibacy is not coloured “with golds and silvers and otherworldly tones”, but is simply “a life of grace-enabled, Godly obedience.”
What a sex therapist wishes pastors knew about talking about sex - 2018 ADM Senior Research Fellow Monica Cook on The Pastor's Heart podcast
2018 ADM Senior Research Fellow, Monica Cook, speaks with Dominic Steele on ‘The Pastors Heart’, about how pastors might do a better job in talking about sex.
My grandparents and human dignity in aged care - 2021 ADM Senior Fellow Stephanie Kate Judd in Eternity News
In the wake of the final report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, 2021 ADM Senior Fellow Stephanie Kate Judd looks back at her own family’s experiences of ageing and asks if we have diminished or devalued what it is to be human in later life.
What Disney’s 'love letter' to Southeast Asia teaches us about sharing the gospel - 2020 ADM Fellow Amanda Mason in Sydney Anglicans
In reflecting on Disney's latest release "Raya and the Last Dragon", 2020 ADM Senior Fellow Amanda Mason asks "What could be Australian churches’ collective love letter to the Southeast Asians among us?"
Could Australian Christian communities do as Disney did?
What our past teaches us about youth ministry now - 2021 ADM Senior Research Fellow Dr Ruth Lukabyo's new book in Sydney Anglicans
Rev. Craig Roberts, CEO of Youthworks, gives an overview of 2021 ADM Senior Research Fellow, Dr Ruth Lukabyo’s, 2020 monograph, “From a Ministry for Youth to a Ministry of Youth: Aspects of Protestant Youth Ministry in Sydney 1930–1959”.