About the storyteller

Sarah is a Biblical storyteller, poet and ordained minister in the Uniting Church in Australia.

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Sarah has been telling the Biblical stories and leading workshops with church communities – congregations, presbytery, synod, network, NCYC, assembly – for around 10 years. She is a leader in the Network of Biblical Storytellers in Australia, and a member of the Network of Biblical Storytellers Int'l and its Scholars Seminar; she was the final speaker at TEDxAdelaide in May 2013, and spoke at the Inter-Disciplinary.Net fourth global conference on narrative in Prague later that month (see Perspectives on Storytelling: Framing Global and Personal Identities).




Sarah is studying a PhD exploring the way performance - oral storytelling - leads to interpretation of biblical texts, from September 2014 at the University of Edinburgh. She performed the letter to the Romans as a test case for the embodied methodology in Edinburgh and Adelaide. Sarah has presented on her progress with this project at conferences and colleges in England, Scotland and Australia, and for the Network of Biblical Storytellers' Festival Gathering and Scholars Seminar in Washington, D.C.

Sarah's first poetry collection, On Wisdom's Wings, was published in 2013 by Ginninderra Press, with a chapbook, In Prayer and Protest, released in 2014. Her second poetry collection, The Only Constants, was published by Ginninderra press in 2016.
Collections of story, poetry, prayer and liturgy for the seasons of Advent/Christmas/Epiphany and Lent/Easter will be available through Proost in late 2016 and early 2017.




Find a prayer-poem for one of the lectionary texts each week from Sarah at Pray the Story.



Ordained in 2010 in the Uniting Church in Australia, from 2011–2014, Sarah was the sole minister at Belair Uniting Church, Adelaide, a vibrant & creative, medium-sized congregation.
Sarah was also the facilitator of two alternative church endeavours, Black Wood Jazz and The Esther Project. Her ministry continues to be both alternative & pioneering, as a freelance minister invited to preside in many contexts, and supporting Venture FX pioneers connected with the City Methodist Church in Edinburgh. More about
Sarah as minister.

Sarah's preaching is shaped by both her storytelling and scholarship, and she has been in high demand for pulpit supply during her time in Scotland. Click on the link to read reflections Sarah has offered 'from the pulpit.'

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