Peter Catt – President
Peter Catt is Dean of St John’s Anglican Cathedral, Brisbane. From 1997 to 2007 Peter was the Dean of Grafton. He helped establish and run the International Philosophy, Science and Theology Festival, which was held at Christ Church Cathedral, Grafton. He holds a PhD in evolutionary microbiology from the University of NSW and a BD from the Melbourne College of Divinity.
His interests include Christian Formation, liturgical innovation, the interaction between science and religion, and Narrative Theology . He is a member of a number of environmental and Human Rights organisations and has serves on Anglican Social Justice Committees at both Diocesan and National level. He is the current chair of The Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce.
Committee Members
Avrell Devonshire
Julie Worrell
Michael Furtado
Andrew Bush
George Mainprize
Len Baglow
Ray Barraclough
Ray Barraclough grew up on a farm near Clermont in central Queensland. He majored in history at the University of Queensland before working as a high school teacher for three years at Childers. He then went on to study at Moore Theological College in Sydney. On completing his studies there, he enrolled at Macquarie University to research his doctoral thesis. In his doctorate he explored a range of political ideas that are to be found amongst the New Testament writers.
Ray was ordained as an Anglican priest in Brisbane diocese in 1975. In that diocese Ray has served as a parish priest, university chaplain and theological lecturer.
Ray served his curacy at St James’ Anglican Church in Toowoomba. He then became Rector of St John’s Church, Upper Mount Gravatt. From 1979 to 1988 he was the Anglican Chaplain to the University of Queensland.
During the late 1970s and 1980s Ray was involved with Concerned Christians that was an ecumenical coalition of Christians in south-east Queensland who were concerned about the erosion of civic rights and wider political malpractice that were a feature of Queensland’s political landscape during those years.
From 1989 to 1993 Ray and his wife, Dorothy, served at St George’s College, Jerusalem, where Ray was senior lecturer. Subsequent to his return, he was the founding President of Friends of Sabeel Australia Inc [FOSAI]. FOSAI seeks to give support to the vision and activity of Palestinian Christians, and especially to the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem.
On returning to Australia, Ray took up an appointment as lecturer in New Testament at St Francis’ Anglican Theological College in Brisbane. Concurrent with that position he was also a member of the ecumenical lecturing team drawn from Brisbane’s Anglican, Catholic and Uniting Church seminaries.
While now living in retirement, Ray has been intimately involved in the establishment and lobbying activities of A Progressive Christian Voice (Australia) Inc.