Geoff Dornan

Geoff Dornan is a clergyman of the Uniting Church. His work has been balanced between, academia, congregational life, and policy development with both the NSW/ACT Synod and National Assembly of the Uniting Church. This has included endeavours in the promotion of social justice through both the negotiation of international aid agreements and the advancement of bioethical thought and practice through the NSW Government’s “Human Research Ethics Committees’ (HRECs). Geoff’s interest in Christian identity in the social and political world, was sparked by the rise of liberation theology in Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s, and his involvement in that movement during the Pinochet Dictatorship in Chile and the civil war in El Salvador.

This essay about grief arises from his personal experience of the loss of his son Andrew, killed with his friend Akaash, in an agricultural accident on Christmas Eve, 2021.