About Sally
Sally Douglas’ work disrupts neat categories. Sally is a biblical scholar, theologian, and author who is committed to attending to the biblical text, early church writings, and feminist and womanist readings. Sally is a Uniting Church minister who worked in the mode of ‘scholar pastor’ for ten years serving an inner-city parish, alongside teaching, researching, and writing. In 2024 Sally became Lecturer in New Testament at Pilgrim Theological College, within the University of Divinity in Melbourne. Sally continues to write for both academic and popular-level audiences.
Sally’s interdisciplinary research spans Second Testament, early church studies and theology as she continues to reflexively engage with these sources and the potential implications of re-engaging with often suppressed texts in contemporary context. In particular, Sally’s research attends to questions of christology, soteriology, gender and discipleship.
A central question that informs Sally’s research and writing in both academic and popular spheres is “So what?” – “So what might this mean for how we understand ancient texts in light of contemporary research?”; “So what might this mean for understandings of the Divine?” and “So what might this mean for how we live?”
Amidst all of this, Sally seeks to cultivate contemplative prayer practices within her own life and she loves seeing live (loud) music.
Image courtesy of Carl Rainer Photography.