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Oral histories and biographies of Queenslanders involved in religious settings.

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The Difficult John Vincent: First Clergyman at Moreton Bay, 1829

At a time when clergy were in short supply across the colony of New South Wales, Rev. John Vincent’s appointment to Moreton Bay in 1829 failed disastrously.

Figure 2: The front façade and chapel forecourt of St Peters Lutheran College Chapel, 2016 (Lisa Daunt).

Architecture, art, and music at St Peters Chapel

Designed by Dr Karl Langer in an architecturally modernist style, the St Peters Lutheran College Chapel in Indooroopilly opened in 1968.

Figure 2: Dorothy Alexander and Alan Demack, Student Christian Movement conference, c. 1955 (Demack family).

Alan and Dorothy Demack

Decades of service as lay preachers has enriched the community experience of this Rockhampton couple.

Rev. Merrington and the ANZAC Memorial Peace Chapel

During the Great War, Rev. Dr E. N. Merrington’s war diary and letters home talk of numinous and sublime experiences.

Benjamin Glennie, Apostle of the Downs

The diary of Anglican priest Benjamin Glennie details the challenges and privations of religious ministry on Queensland’s colonial frontier.