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Julia Baird: Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
The Edge Auditorium, slq
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Duration: 60 minutes
A stirring meditation on the nature of spirit in a secular world, Bright Shining elegantly makes the case for grace. Drawing on reportage and personal philosophy, Julia Baird examines the scarcity and significance of this ephemeral virtue.
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Julia Baird
Julia Baird is a globally renowned author and award-winning journalist. A much-beloved broadcaster in her native Australia, Julia presents for ABC TV and writes columns for The New York Times. In 2007, she became senior editor of Newsweek in New York. Her work has earned her four Walkley Our Watch awards, a Walkley Award for team election reporting, and two further Walkley nominations. She lives near the sea with two children, a tyrannical cat and an abnormally large dog.
Ashley Hay
Ashley Hay is an award-winning novelist and essayist whose work includes The Railwayman’s Wife, A Hundred Small Lessons and Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions. A former editor of Griffith Review, she also works as a mentor and facilitator, and as editorial consultant for the Climate Justice Observatory.
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