GREG MOSES: SHORT RESUME


Greg Moses (actually Gregory James Moses) is

·        Parish Priest (for want of a better expression) working in the regions of Herberton, Malanda and Yungaburra, on the Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland, Australia

·        an Australian  philosopher and part time theologian  still with a part time attachment to the Roman Catholic St Paul's Theological College, within the ecumenical combine, the Brisbane College of  Theology.

·        a visiting fellow at Griffith University, also in Brisbane, attached to the School of Theology there;

·        worker on occasion, at the Brisbane campus of the Australian Catholic University.


Taken after the Christchurch, N.Z. ANZATS Conference, on Eco-Theology, in July 2000.  That's Mt. Cook in the background (or a  part of it.)

St Paul's Theological College,  at a place called Banyo, where I have worked and/or lived for almost half of my life, is set on an 100 acre property on the north east side of Brisbane, Queensland, about 15 minutes from the Brisbane airport and close by the Gateway Arterial highway.  The site is right next door to the Boondall Wetlands, the largest wetland area still existing within the Brisbane region.  The Banyo property itself is something of a sanctuary for various species of birds, of which more than 100 varieties have been detected over the years. I’ve also spent some time (1985-1993) in Sydney, NSW, at St Paul’s National Seminary for mature aged students, at Kensington just south of the city.  That was also a very good time for me.

Enclosed below some of the more common Birds of Banyo!  The accessibility of such beauty in daily walks is what used to keep me sane:


(1) Red-backed parrot (Psephotus haematonotus)
(2) Cattle egret (Ardeola ibis): tends to keep company with the horses on the property.

(I’m probably still sane, but now relying on a sit-in kayak to supplement the daily walks.)

From 2003, the site came to be shared between us and the Brisbane campus of the Australian Catholic University.

Gregory James Moses was born at Mareeba, North Queensland, Australia, in 1948, and brought up in the neighbouring country town of Atherton, on the Atherton Tableland, a lovely place, God's own country.

My parents Alex and Ann (maiden name also Moses) were born in Australia of Syrian-Lebanese parents, on both sides, religion Antiochian Orthodox, from ancestors who were probably Christian aligned to the old See of Antioch already at the time of the Moslem conquests. Their parents migrated to Australia in the 1880's and 1890's and earned their living initially as hawkers, i.e. travelling sales-persons, servicing the 'outback', in father's case from Thursday Island to Melbourne, in mother's case to the south of Sydney and inland N.S.W.

They eventually settled, as hotel keepers or publicans (father's family in Atherton, the "Grand Hotel", still existing under other ownership) and as sheep/wheat farmers around Temora in N.S.W. (Ann's family). Mother was born in Braidwood, on the banks of the Shoalhaven River, inland N.S.W.  They were married in Sydney in 1945 and arrived as a couple in North Queensland the day peace was declared.  In 1972, mother retired from managing the Grand Hotel, and went to live at what is the present family home in Nowra, downstream on the banks of the Shoalhaven, 100 miles to the south of Sydney.


Kookaburra sits on the old clothes line (at mum's place in Nowra)!.  There is a gum tree in the background.

Both parents are now deceased, Alex in May, 1958, Ann in January, 1998.

I have two brothers, my older brother Peter, who is a criminal lawyer, my younger brother Vincent, who is an engineer.  Vincent is married to Mary Rose, and they have three children, James, Elizabeth and Katherine.
 

Katherine, Vincent,  Elizabeth, Mary Rose, James, photo taken Christmas 1998, Orange, NSW.

I was educated in Atherton (St Joseph’s School) and Cairns, North Queensland (St Augustine’s  College), with tertiary education at Banyo Seminary the predecessor establishment to where I used to work, at Queensland University, but mostly at the University of Leuven in Belgium (B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Leuven 1985). Postgraduate research was on the Scottish philosopher David Hume.
Lately I have been more interested in the possibilities of Process Thinking as a way of operating ethically and truthfully in the world in prospect of the 21st century now begun.

Since 1985 I have been working almost entirely in theological colleges, at Kensington, Sydney, N.S.W. 1985-1993 within the Sydney College of Divinity and at Banyo, Brisbane (1993-present day) within the Brisbane College of Theology.

This was with the exception of a ten week sabbatical in the parish of Ravenshoe in Far North Queensland, and the last six months of 2005 at a marvelous parish called Daisy Hill filled with wonderful people half way between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.  I’m now continuing the process, already begun, of moving full time back into parish ministry, while carrying with me as a supervisor half a dozen research projects and probably moving back into a little bit of lecturing in Intensive mode once I get settled.  This takes me back into God’s own country, at this moment in Cairns, but from 25th February 2006 for the time being in Herberton, Malanda and Yungaburra.

I am an ordained Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Cairns, north Queensland (since 1972). This, as things have turned out,  has not functioned very strongly in my life, except for 1973-1975 as an assistant priest in the diocese of Cairns, and excepting the role of 'formator' of seminarians at Banyo and Kensington for about 13 years. Apart from that,  main 'pastoral' involvements have consisted in baptisms, marriages and funerals for family and friends. This is now in process of change.

I strongly treasure my family, mostly in Australia but scattered in various other places such as London and parts of the U.S. I also
greatly treasure my friends, in Belgium, the U.S., Great Britain and Australia.

Some of my friends, photo taken in 1985 in Leuven, Belgium.

To both family and friends I hereby send warmest regards and greetings!

I still retain a firm allegiance to Catholicism broadly considered, particularly in so far as it constitutes one of the few remaining counter-forces to the modern day religion or complex of idolatries, variously named as 'economic rationalism', 'globalization', 'consumerism', 'economism', etc.
 

As well as a business or working address (which keeps changing) as in the Welcome page, Greg Moses has a home address at what was my mother's home,

Gregory J. Moses
54 Riverview Rd,
Nowra, N.S.W. 2541,
Australia.
Ph. 61 (0)2 44214105. .
(Mobile: 61 (0)417 707 875)

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