On 17th October, 2025, The Bible in Deep Time Symposium was held at the Dalton McCaughey Library, Parkville. At this symposium eight short provocations were offered thinking about the connection between Deep Time and the Bible.
Deep Time is the idea that time exists beyond the limit of our human lifespan including Indigneous, geological and even spatial time. The discssions that followed ranged across a variety of topics, which can be understood via the headings of Country, time, trauma, communication and language, hope, justice, decolonising, reconstruction. It was noted that the concept of Deep Time had been colonised and so was not suitable for a project that valued and prioritised Indigenous understandings. An alternate title was proposed by Aunty Janet Turpie-Johnson: Place is Presence. The subtitle “time, Country and the Bible” sums up the main themes that are informing this work.
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Place is Presence: Time Country Bible 