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Roy Bradley Oration 2026 – Saara Sabbagh OAM
The Centre for Spirituality of Care and Community warmly invites you to the 8th Roy Bradley Oration 2026 on Sunday, 30 August 2026 – 3 pm AEST via Zoom to be delivered by Saara Sabbagh OAM Australian Muslim community leader, interfaith advocate, and international speaker, Saara will speak to: Mercy in a Fractured World: An Read more…
Workshops with Dr Eugen Koh – Developing a Spirituality of Care and Community in a Turbulent World.
CSCC invites you to participate in a series of in-person workshops in Melbourne to develop a spirituality of care and community. The workshops are in response to the interest arising from Dr Eugen Koh’s presentation to CSCC’s 2025 Annual General Meeting: Developing a Spirituality of Care and Community in a Turbulent World. The workshops will Read more…
AGM guest speaker – Isabel Thomas Dobson
Isabel Thomas Dobson opened CSCC’s 2026 AGM by addressing the following question: How can we talk about and model spiritualities of care and community in our current context? Isabel reflects on how to nurture spiritualities of care and community amid a world marked by hostility, collapsing norms and divisive political rhetoric. She contrasts destructive public Read more…
Annual General Meeting – April 2026
Our Chairperson, Gillian Henderson, welcomed attendees to the 8th CSCC AGM and expressed gratitude for members’ ongoing support, including a generous donation enabling sponsored Foundation Memberships. The committee continued Roy Bradley’s legacy through monthly meetings and a productive planning day, noting the centenary of Roy’s birth and the importance of fostering a spirituality of care Read more…
Newsletter – Autumn 2026
This newsletter invites you to the upcoming AGM with guest speaker Isobel Thomas Dobson on How can we talk about and model spiritualities of care and community in our current context? It also outlines a series of upcoming workshops with Dr Eugen Koh on developing a spirituality of care and community. View this newsletter.
Roy Bradley Oration 2025 – Michael Lapsley
The seventh Roy Bradley Oration was delivered by Michael Lapsley from South Africa on Sunday 26 October 2025 – 5.30pm AEDT via Zoom. A compelling and skilled speaker, author and group facilitator, Fr Michael Lapsley SSM speaks to the question, How do we respond together in life giving ways when terrible things happen? In a Read more…
Newsletter – Spring 2024
With contributions from members of the CSCC committee and the skills of the graphic artist who assisted us with our last newsletter, we have produced our second newsletter for the year. We plan, now, to produce three to four newsletters each year. This edition starts with a detailed summary, prepared by Andy Calder, of the Read more…
Roy Bradley Oration 2024 – Pádraig Ó Tuama
The 2024 Annual Roy Bradley Oration, our sixth, was delivered by Pádraig Ó Tuama from New York on Sunday 13th October 2024 – 7.30 pm AEDT, via Zoom. In this lecture “Things Known and Strange”, Pádraig will consider poetry – his own, and that of others – to address the human condition; what we can Read more…
Past Events
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Roy Bradley Oration 2025 – Michael Lapsley
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Roy Bradley Oration 2024 – Pádraig Ó Tuama
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Roy Bradley Oration 2023 – Dr Anne Pattel-Gray
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Roy Bradley Oration 2022 – Linda Walter
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Roy Bradley Oration 2021 – Dr Rachael Kohn
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Roy Bradley Oration 2020 – Reverend Tim Costello
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Roy Bradley Oration 2019 – Dr Bruce Rumbold
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