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Bp Terry Brown has emailed a few of his conference papers around and I thought I’d post them here for Bogosity readers to check out.

The first two are from the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia Theological Hui

Keynote 1

Keynote 2

RAMSI and Beyond

The U.S. (and I’m guessing Australia will follow) wants to back out of the Millenium Development Goals of giving 0.7% of GDP to developing nations.

Anglican Communion News Service

the Episcopal Church has endorsed the ethic of
0.7% giving to fighting global poverty, ... For
the U.S. to now oppose that long-held target further undermines our nation’s international credibility, [...]

A Letter from Archbishop Rowan Williams to the Taizé Community:
Anglican Communion News Service

Very few people in a generation manage to change the whole climate of a religious culture; but Brother Roger did just this. He changed the terms of reference for ecumenism by the challenge to Christians of diverse loyalties to live the monastic life [...]

Life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different forms of intelligence, each with its strengths and weaknesses. This point was well demonstrated in the minutes before last December’s tsunami, when tourists grabbed their digital cameras and ran after [...]

Sledging creationists again.

Open Letter

What these people don’t understand is that He built the world to make us think the earth is older than it really is. For example, a scientist may perform a carbon-dating process on an artifact. He finds that approximately 75% of the Carbon-14 has decayed by electron emission to Nitrogen-14, and infers [...]

Everyone knows that every single muslim is an extreme crazy fundamentalist. Just like all christians vote liberal.

Australia meets with Muslim leaders to root out extremism | csmonitor.com

But some Muslims here have a growing sense that they are being defined within the media by the voices of the extremists, and that an intervention by the [...]

I can relate to this article about how NGOs regard their donors. I have felt this way when trying to be involved with a certain NGO who shal remain nameless.

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Members Unite! You have nothing to lose but your newsletters and crappy coffee-cup premiums…

Right now, most advocacy NGOs consider their [...]