2021 Conference Speaker Info
Dr Priscilla Pope-Levison
Keynote Speaker
Dr Priscilla Pope-Levison, an ordained United Methodist minister, is the Associate Dean for External Programs and Professor of Ministerial Studies at Southern Methodist University USA. Her interdisciplinary publications combine theology, gender studies, church history, and mission and evangelism. She is the author of Turn the Pulpit Loose: Two Centuries of American Women Evangelists and Evangelization from a Liberation Perspective. Her book, Building the Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era was awarded the Smith/Wynkoop Book Award by the Wesleyan Theological Society and was listed as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2014 by Choice magazine. She has co-authored and published several books with her husband, Jack Levison, including Sex, Gender, and Christianity.
Christine Faragher (Major)
I am a Salvation Army officer currently working on a PhD on gender equity in The Salvation Army with a particular focus on the experience of Australian women. I have been in ministry for more than 30 years and have academic qualifications in the Arts, Theology, Spiritual Direction and Supervision. An earlier research project (Masters) uncovered a hidden stream of contemplative spirituality within the Salvationist tradition. My current research is a cross-disciplinary study with three main sections: the first is a work of historical analysis, the second, empirical research and the third is a piece of constructive theology. The project includes an analysis of Catherine Booth’s Female Teaching pamphlet and a feminist re-reading of Catherine Booth’s letters that challenges the accepted historical narrative of her call to preach.
Emma E Moore
MA(Theology), University of Manchester, United Kingdom; BTh, Sydney College of Divinity, Australia
Emma is a lecturer in Theology at Eva Burrows College and Mission and Ministry Formation Coordinator for the Officer Formation Stream at EBC.
Dr Ewen Butler
I am a full-time pastor and independent scholar in renewal history. My entire career has been in education as well as church and secular campus ministry in Canada. I am an ordained minister with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (PAOC) and completed my doctoral research at Regent University in Virginia, USA.
Dr Glenda Hepplewhite
I am currently the Director of Quality Assurance at Alphacrucis College (AC). AC is a multi -campus and the national training college of the Australian Christian Churches (ACC). I have recently completed my PhD; my thesis is entitled Developing a Model for Empowering Female Pentecostal Undergraduates: Alphacrucis College as a Case Study.
Dr Ian J. Maddock, FRHistS
BSc (Hons) (UNSW); MDiv (ACT); ThM (Gordon-Conwell); PhD (Aberdeen).
Senior Lecturer in Christian Thought at Sydney Missionary and Bible College
Irene Alexander
Past and/or present lecturer at the Australian Catholic University, Christian Heritage College, Brisbane, and Asian Theological Seminary, Manila, Philippines I have presented at numbers of conferences including Asian Theological forum, Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia and Christian Counselling conferences in Asia, NZ and Australia. I have published a number of books, and have presented on the topic of the Divine Feminine at Theology on Tap and Women's Theology Group.
Dr Jennifer Hein
Jennifer Hein is a Salvation Army soldier at North East corps in Adelaide, South Australia. She is an adjunct lecturer in Church history at St Barnabas Theological College, Adelaide, and sessional lecturer at Booth University College, Canada. Her doctoral thesis was on the early history of The Salvation Army in South Australia.