“Who Am I?” A Sydney Anglican Female Perspective

Posted on October 28, 2019 
Filed under Opinion, Sydney Diocese

“My favourite moment of my favourite musical comes when Les Miserable’s protagonist breaks into his moment of existential crisis. “Who am I?”, he lyrically wails.

As I read Julia Baird’s latest offering about the caricatured, oppressed, silenced and invisible women of the Sydney Anglican Diocese (“In praise of the oddities and outliers resisting bonkers fundamentalism in Sydney”, SMH Oct 26th), I found myself having my very own Jean Val Jean moment (though, sadly, without the accompanying symphony). Who am I? I’m an ordained member of the Sydney Anglican clergy. But I’m also a woman. …”

The Australian Church Record has published an expanded version of an article by Dani Treweek which was first published in The Sydney Morning Herald.