Uniting Church Ministry & Mission Day

The Centre for Theology and Ministry is hosting a Synod Ministry and Mission Day on Tuesday 18 February 2025, which will include a welcome to country, an induction service for the new Lecturer in Systematic Theology and Ministry Formation Coordinator, and a Commencement lecture by Rev Professor Sathianathan Clarke, Lecturer in Theology and Mission, United Theological College, North Parramatta: “Discipleship in a multireligious world: faithful living in the Jesus Way and gracious loving within the embrace of the Trinity.”

9.30 am Welcome to country, smoking ceremony

10 am                Worship service in Yuma Auditorium
                         including the induction of new Synod ministry staff.                                

Preacher: Rev Dr David Fotheringham, Moderator, VicTas Synod.

11 am                 Morning tea

11.30                  Commencement Lecture in Yuma Auditorium
The commencement lecture marks the beginning of the academic year for Pilgrim Theological College.

“Discipleship in a multireligious world: faithful living in the Jesus Way and gracious loving within the embrace of the Trinity.”

Rev Dr Sathianathan Clarke, Lecturer in Theology and Mission, United Theological College, North Parramatta.

12.45 pm          Lunch

About Sathi Clarke

Sathianathan (Sathi) Clarke is Lecturer in Theology and Mission at United Theological College, North Parramatta.

Sathi is a Presbyter of the Church of South India. He bridges the world between establishment and the marginalised, the global and the local, and academy and the congregation. He has taught and lectured on global Christianity, contextual theology, postcolonial mission, and interreligious dialogue in India, the U.S.A.,
the U.K., Germany, Sri Lanka, Korea, South Africa, and Liberia.

In his research and teaching, Sathi has cultivated specialties in contextual theology, constructive global theology, and theology of religions. From 1996-2004 he was on the faculty at United Theological College, Bangalore. He has also been visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School and, for the last twenty years, the Bishop Sundo Kim Chair in World Christianity and Professor of Theology, Culture and Mission at Wesley Theological