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NetworkTime: Monday, 7.30-9.30pm
Place: Home of Brian & Margaret Hill (8 Kirby Way, Samson)
There will be a special public lecture at Murdoch University on July 2 in the Kim Beazley Lecture Theatre from 6pm to given by Professor Jules Pretty OBE. Professor Pretty is renowned for his work in international agricultural and community development.
The world and its cultures and environments face unprecedented challenges in the coming two to three decades. Consumption-driven stresses on food systems, nature, water and energy are likely to put many cultures and economies under serious threat. What, then, can be learned about divergent patterns of living that emphasise connections to land and nature?
Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Essex. He is a Fellow of the Institute of the Biology and the Royal Society of Arts, Deputy-Chair of the government’s Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE). He is a regular speaker, contributor to media, and presenter of the 1999 BBC Radio 4 series Ploughing Eden, a contributor and writer for the 2001 BBC TV Correspondent programme The Magic Bean, and a panellist in 2007 for Radio 4’s The Moral Maze. He received a 1997 international award from the Indian Ecological Society, was appointed A D White Professor-at-Large by Cornell University from 2001, and is Chief Editor of the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. He received an OBE in 2006 for services to sustainable agriculture.
See the following link for more details:
http://www.ccpr.murdoch.edu.au/events/file_downloads/2009_Keith_Roby_Lecture_Invite.pdf
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The W.A. Newbigin Network group has organised a planning meeting to consider how to engage local Christians in the questions concerning climate change.
Getting ready for the end of the world as we know it: Promoting Christian reflection, action and prayer about our warming world.
Saturday 25th November 2006, 9.30am-12.30pm
Mount Pleasant Uniting Church (Meeting Room 1)
Dr Gordon Preece, Dean and Director of the Macquarie Christian Studies Institute (located at Macquarie University in Sydney) and Editor of Zadok Perspectives, will discuss with us ‘being the public people of God’. All welcome.
Sunday 11th June 2006, 7.30pm
8 Kirby Way, Samson (Brian and Margaret Hill's place)
William Cavanaugh will be visiting Perth at the end of May 2006. There are 3 events in Perth:
Saturday 27/5: Workshop on consumer culture
Sunday 28/5: Newbigin group meeting in the evening
Monday 29/5: Public lecture at UWA in the evening
He will also be presenting at the Zadok conference in Sydney from June 2 – 4
Jim Wallis' blog 'God's
Politics'
In particular about a recent book on ‘The Myth of a
Christian Nation’
His blog also has articles by Tony Campolo – in a recent posting Campolo
reported on a study by Randall Balmer of Columbia University in which Balmer
found that leading evangelicals were in favour of the use of torture in the war
against terrorism. Campolo criticises their ‘duplicity’ since they
have hitherto taken an absolutist line (eg on abortion) but now they are becoming
more ‘situationalists’
Very significant developments in recent theology centre around a renewed understanding of the Trinity. Speakers at this symposium include Alex Jensen, John Dunnill, Margaret Tyrer, Ian Barns and Geoffrey Lilburne. There will be ample opportunity for discussion and lunch will be provided (at a cost of $20.00). Place is Worship Centre, Murdoch University and time is 9:15 to 4:00 pm. To register a place, call Nicole Brown on 9360 6890.
This is a new Intensive developed by Ian Robinson and offered through the Perth Theological Hall. The unit is eligible for Continuing Education Credit, and is offered at a cost of $200.00. Call Anne Watson 9360 6880 for enrolment details.
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