Study Groups
Our study groups return in 2025, with online read-and-discuss groups meeting each quarter for 4-8 weeks.
FIRST QUARTER
- Our first quarter studies will be our Lenten Studies for 2025. Details and registrations are now open
SECOND QUARTER
- Our second quarter book will be Miroslav Volf’s A Public Faith, How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good; details will be finalised and registration become available around Easter
THIRD QUARTER – TBA
FOURTH QUARTER – TBA
You might also be interested in our Quarterly Conversations on the Quarterly Essay
PREVIOUS STUDY GROUPS:
The following is a mostly complete list of study group materials we’ve used over the last decade or so…
2014
Lent: Bruce Barber — four presentations on “Beginning at the beginning, or Why is it like this?
May-July: William Cavanaugh, Theopolitical imagination
November: William Cavanaugh, Being consumed
2015
Lent: Reformation Questions for the contemporary church
2nd Quarter: Rowan Williams, Resurrection: Interpreting the Easter Gospel [Not the easiest read]
2016
Lent: Called to Holiness in Australia
August: Rowan Williams, Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer
2017
Lent: Bruce Barber, The Lord’s Prayer
2018
Paula Gooder: on The Joy of the Gospel
August 2015: Northrop Frye, The Great Code
2019
Lent: Rowan Williams The Spirit in the desert – audio of lectures
2020
Lent: Rowan Williams The sign and the sacrifice
April-Dec Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures (Christine Hayes, Yale)
2021
Lent: Three studies on Mark’s Gospel (at St Mary’s)
Oct-?Feb 2022: Introduction to the New Testament (Dale Martin, Yale)
2022
Lent: Called to Community (video resource)
May-June 2022: Walter Brueggemann, Sabbath as resistance
July-Aug: Miroslav Volf, Free of charge: giving and forgiving in a culture stripped of grace.
Oct-Nov: Rowan Williams, Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life.
2023
Lent: Rowan Williams, Meeting God in Paul
July-Aug: David Ford, The shape of living
Oct-Nov: Andrew Root and Blair Bertrand, When church stops working: a future for your congregation beyond more money, programs and innovation.
2024
Lent: Samuel Wells, A cross in the heart of God
Aug-Sept: Wright and Bird, Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
Oct-Nov: Angles on world Christianity
2025
Lent: Rowan Williams, Christ on trial
May-June: Miroslav Volf A public faith
Other occasional studies have included
Stanley Hauerwas, After Christendom: How the church is to behave if freedom, justice and a Christian nation are bad ideas.