52. Eseta Meneilly - 6 March 2022

Australian Women Preach

First Sunday of Lent - Luke 4: 1-13 -

Eseta writes: I am a first generation, retired Uniting Church clergy, migrant woman of colour (Fijian), who migrated to Australia thirty-five years ago. Through my many Australian experiences, for instance in the Uniting Church, in secular work as an Australian trained teacher prior to Ordained Ministry, and as a volunteer contributor in the communities in which I have been privileged to live and participate, I have freely explored ways of expressing my Fijian heritage and culture, and in particular, to speak to these from the perspective of a woman in diaspora. Through expressions of these, I am able to share my understanding of life in Australia from the perspective of a woman with specified gifts, and take opportunities offered to me to share some of these gifts through Biblical and theological narratives.