187. Penny Jones and Josephine Inkpin - 6 October 2024

Australian Women Preach

Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Mark 10: 2-16

Penny Jones

Penny is an Anglican priest and spiritual companion, who has been offering spiritual guidance and inspiration for more than thirty five years. As a dancer, labyrinth and InterPlay facilitator, and yoga practitioner, she is especially drawn to the interface of spirituality and the body, and to the ways in which physical movement can effect spiritual shifts. She has served on the staff of four theological colleges and courses, specialising in the New Testament, practical theology and homiletics

website: http://www.soulworkerpennyjones.com

Josephine Inkpin

Josephine is an Anglican priest serving as Minister of Pitt Street Uniting Church in Sydney. The first out licensed ordained transgender Minister in Australia, she has been very actively involved in many recent struggles for LGBTIQ+ advance in faith spaces and wider society and is currently co-chair of Equal Voices and a member of the Trans Council of Equality Australia. Formerly a staff member of the National Council of Churches in Australia and General Secretary of the NSW Ecumenical Council, she has worked in many capacities, not least with inter-faith relationships and First Nations people of faith, and as a theologian and church historian. websites:https://www.blessedimp.org/ and https://www.transspirit.org/

Together, Jo and Penny helped create the Queer Theology unit for Pilgrim College, the first such university initiative in Australia. Some of Penny and Jo's reflections and spiritual addresses can also be found at https://www.penandinkreflections.org/