Tracy, Tricia and Louise reflect the origins of the Australian Women Preach and discuss what's next for the team behind the podcast.

Tracy McEwan (PhD) is a theologian and sociologist of religion and gender at the University of Newcastle. Her writing and research interests include women in Catholicism; gendered violence; church participation, generations, and life stage. Tracy’s monograph Women and the Catholic Church:Negotiating Identity and Agency will be published open-access with Bloomsbury Academic on 24 April 2025 https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-and-the-catholic-church-9781350424821/

Patricia Gemmell is a wife, mother and grandmother, andsemi-retired teacher of French, Latin and Italian.  She also has a Masters degree in Theology.  She belongs to the Grail, an international movement and community of women, and recently served 8 years on their National Leadership Team.  An active member of her parish community in Sydney for nearly 40 years, she is currently the co-ordinator of their Laudato Si’ Action Platform group.  Caring deeply about church reform she has been fully engaged in both the Australian Plenary Council and the Synod on Synodality and is also one of the working team responsible for AustralianWomen Preach, a weekly podcast of a woman preaching on the Sunday gospel.  

Louise Maher worked for many years in radio as a journalist, producer and presenter, including 25 years with the ABC. She created a podcast series for the Australian War Memorial and an oral history app for the National Portrait Gallery. Louise is an Accredited Editor and has a Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing from Sydney University.

First Sunday of Lent - Luke 4:1-13

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Luke 6:39-45 - You are the greatest project you will ever work on.

Dr Josephine Armour is a retired Anglican priest and former Dominican Sister from Adelaide, where she has been a teacher for much of her working life. Jo has been the parish priest at St Chad’s Anglican church until her recent retirement.

She lectures in systematic theology at St Barnabas College and is the author of “Call No One on Earth Your Father”.

Her interests include walking, swimming and hula-hooping.

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Luke 6:27-38 - Love your enemies be compassionate

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Luke 6:17, 20-26

Steph Jorna is a Brisbane based singer-songwriter, youth leader and teacher now working for the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane as Synod Coordinator and Project Officer-Inclusion.

Prior to this, she designed and implemented Brisbane Catholic Education’s system approach to student formation and youth ministry. Steph is passionate about shaping and facilitating effective, empowering and psychologically safe retreats where young people encounter the Other through each other.

The Presentation of the Lord - Luke 2:22-40 - Holding Hope

Laura Tharion is the women’s minister at Macquarie Anglican Eastwood. Here she is passionate about discipleship, pastoral care, justice seeking, and nurturing flourishing community. She studied history and anthropology at Sydney University, and theology at Sydney Mission and Bible College. She is a writer, preacher, story coach, bibliophile, tree-hugger, wilderness wanderer, haphazard homemaker, wife, and mother of three beautiful boys.

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Luke: 1:1-4, 4:14-21

Revd Canon Professor Dorothy Lee AM FAHA is a biblical scholar and Anglican priest with many years experience in lecturing in New Testament, including the Gospel of John. She has written and taught in feminist theology and women's ministry in the New Testament. Born in Scotland she was educated at the Universities of Newcastle and Sydney. She likes reading novels, writing poetry and hanging out with her cats.

2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time - John 2:1-11 - A Joyous Sign

Rev Dr Christine Redwood is the pastor at Seaforth Baptist Church in Sydney. She recently completed her PhD in preaching, the Old Testament and feminist hermeneutics. Her first book draws on her thesis and is titled ‘Hear Her Voice’. It was published in 2024. Christine loves being creative and is passionate about films, theatre, writing, and most of all communicating God’s story with others.

Baptism of the Lord - Luke 3:15-16, 21-22