God’s Own Country

Bio Reverend Canon Auntie Di Langham is the Director of Reconciliation for Anglican Diocese of Newcastle, and Secretary of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anglican Council. She has been a priest in the Diocese of Newcastle for the past 21 years, and was the first Aboriginal woman in this Diocese to be ordained. She was a chaplain in Corrective Services NSW for 20 years and prior to that, a chaplain in Juvenile Justice. Di is a Boandik woman and part of the Stolen Generations’ history of this country, and is now living and working in the lands of the Awabakal and Wanaruah. She likes to weave Aboriginal spirituality into any of her talks and talk about her past experiences in any sermons she gives. 54

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