https://www.sallydouglas.net/home daily 1.0 2026-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/232291be-02c2-447d-8332-21d133cbf149/Sal-new-hero.jpeg Home - Theologian and biblical scholar, author, teacher and minister. Sally Douglas’ work disrupts neat categories. Sally is a biblical scholar, theologian, author, teacher and Uniting Church minister who is committed to attending to the biblical text, early church writings, and feminist and womanist readings. Sally is Senior Lecturer in New Testament at Pilgrim Theological College within the University of Divinity in Melbourne. She teaches in the field of New Testament, as well as in the fields of theology and spirituality. Sally has extensive experience working in the mode of “scholar-pastor”, and for ten years served an inner-city parish, while researching, writing, and teaching. Sally continues to write for both academic and popular-level audiences. Sally’s book Jesus Sophia: Returning to Woman Wisdom in the Bible, Practice, and Prayer was shortlisted for Australian Christian Book of the Year in 2024, and her latest book, Rewilding Prayer: God Beyond Gender, Faith Beyond Formulas was released in October 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/022823a1-6e0e-4853-84dd-8ba776c45df0/Douglas-v2+REWILDING+PRAYER+COVER.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/9f943ba6-d56e-4632-a320-9601b13a966b/Jesus+Sophia.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/1628071768009-UFPNUYTVH9EXZZ9GHFXE/The_Church_as+Salt+Front+Cover.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/1599013507072-AFU1HTP8WG7GGLRI7CKY/Early-church-hero.jpg https://www.sallydouglas.net/about daily 0.75 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/431bd961-a06f-4863-afe6-542d0918d831/Sally+2.jpg About - About Sally Sally Douglas’ work disrupts neat categories. Sally is a biblical scholar, theologian, author, and Uniting Church minister who is committed to attending to the biblical text, early church writings, and feminist and womanist readings. Sally currently serves as Senior Lecturer in New Testament at Pilgrim Theological College within the University of Divinity in Melbourne. She teaches in the field of New Testament, as well as in the fields of theology, and spirituality. Sally has extensive experience working in the mode of “scholar-pastor”. For ten years, she served an inner-city parish, while researching, writing, and teaching. Sally continues to write for both academic and popular-level audiences. Sally’s book Jesus Sophia: Returning to Woman Wisdom in the Bible, Practice, and Prayer was shortlisted for Australian Christian Book of the Year in 2024. Sally’s latest book, Rewilding Prayer: God Beyond Gender, Faith Beyond Formulas was released in October 2025. https://www.sallydouglas.net/you daily 0.75 2020-08-19 https://www.sallydouglas.net/early-church-understandings-of-jesus-as-the-female-divine daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/1599013507072-AFU1HTP8WG7GGLRI7CKY/Early-church-hero.jpg Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine The Scandal of the Scandal of Particularity Central to debates about Jesus is the issue of whether he uniquely embodies the divine. While this discussion continues unabated, both those who affirm and those who dismiss, Jesus' divinity regularly eclipse the reality that in many of the earliest strands of the Christian tradition when Jesus' divinity is proclaimed, Jesus is imaged as the female divine. Sally Douglas investigates these early texts, excavates the motivations for imaging Jesus as Woman Wisdom and the complex reasons that this began to be suppressed in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. The work concludes with an exploration of the powerful implications of engaging with the ancient proclamation of Jesus-Woman Wisdom in contemporary context. https://www.sallydouglas.net/contact daily 0.75 2023-02-20 https://www.sallydouglas.net/speaking daily 0.75 2025-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/b8ae49d6-3d76-4798-a877-c5267f0293e8/Nomad-hero.jpg Speaking - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/1e441983-1034-4e3f-b927-307464c9ac81/Soul-search.jpg Speaking - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/4acb947f-3215-438a-9cbe-27a09921d657/LRR.png Speaking - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/1628067245984-I2OAVYD2KCNR0AIQQMDC/100000x100000-999.jpg Speaking - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/1628068979663-EYZMD0Y14C8AD49QFMH7/100000x100000-999-2.jpg Speaking - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/1628069391526-72VIR8ZI5UPCJE1T9MYW/100000x100000-999-3.jpg Speaking - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sallydouglas.net/writing daily 0.75 2026-03-15 https://www.sallydouglas.net/the-church-as-salt daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/1628071768009-UFPNUYTVH9EXZZ9GHFXE/Early-church-hero.jpg The Church As Salt The Church as Salt Becoming the Community Jesus Speaks About You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled underfoot. - Matthew 5:13 The Jesus community is called to be the salt of the earth, a metaphor that contains rich and disruptive challenge. Salt is little. We weep salty tears and grow up in dark salty wombs. Salt preserves. Salt draws out taste and too much salt spoils everything. With scholarly insight into the biblical text, early church writers and theology, as well as her pastoral experience in ministry, Sally Douglas invites us to wrestle afresh with the metaphor of being salt. Here we discover a call into discipleship that is free from the success criteria of consumerist culture and free from nostalgia. This book is not a ‘how to’ manual. Instead, through stories of ancient and contemporary salty communities, reflection questions and liturgies, this book is a nourishing resource for people and communities seeking faithful ways of being church today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/8384fd08-e8e7-4c01-a9b1-674249aa1eab/The+Church+As+Salt+Digital+Resource.jpg The Church As Salt https://www.sallydouglas.net/about-archived daily 0.75 2023-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/431bd961-a06f-4863-afe6-542d0918d831/Sally+2.jpg https://www.sallydouglas.net/jesus-sophia daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/fba7db6e-b7af-4a21-bc46-185b15853d09/Jesus-Sophia-award.jpg Jesus Sophia Jesus Sophia Returning to Woman Wisdom in the Bible, Practice, and Prayer In this groundbreaking book, Sally Douglas excavates biblical and early Christian understandings of Jesus as the female divine. Drawing from her expertise as a New Testament scholar and theologian, Douglas accessibly sets out the evidence for Jesus Sophia and then explores its practical implications, both for the church--often suffocated by God-as-male imagery--and for our day-to-day lives. Questions about discipleship, biblical interpretation, and theology are investigated in relation to Jesus Sophia's hospitality, friendship, anger, non-retaliation, and care for all things. In this process understandings of the cross are revisited, female imagery for God is reclaimed and celebrated, fresh and ancient practices of faith are offered, and inclusive, exquisite liturgies are shared. With dynamism, humor, faithfulness, and creativity, Douglas encourages, unsettles, and supports readers, as they discover Jesus Sophia for themselves. Jesus Sophia was shortlisted for the Australian Christian Book of the Year in June 2024. https://www.sallydouglas.net/rewilding-prayer daily 0.75 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f37cb389e737009759a88ff/022823a1-6e0e-4853-84dd-8ba776c45df0/Douglas-v2+REWILDING+PRAYER+COVER.jpg Rewilding Prayer Rewilding Prayer God Beyond Gender, Faith Beyond Formulas Rewilding Prayer disrupts the idol of pretending that God is a man and upends the delusion that prayer is about wishful thinking, vending machines, or reciting words. Grounded in her experience as a biblical scholar, theologian, minister, and student of contemplation amidst the mess of living, Sally Douglas offers a collection of stunning prayers, blessings, and liturgies for use in daily life and for the gathered community. This book shows that there are faithful and expansive ways of naming the Triune God that do not rely on gender. Rewilding Prayer takes seriously that a life of prayer is not static but circles through seasons of emptiness, growth, dryness, nourishment, and difficulty--often in quick rotation. With insight and honesty, questions about what prayer is for, what prayer does and does not do, and what we can do when we cannot pray are explored. Exuding a gritty hope, Douglas demonstrates that prayer is the call to the real. 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