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Oxford center for religion and public life (OCRPL) public lecture
Author: Dr. Andrew Kirk
The first will deal with a fundamental question concerning the state of human rationality in current 21st century intellectual thinking. It will explore briefly changes in the essential criteria, developed to achieve good reasoning,
Maternal-thinking, and Managerial Missiology: A Colombian Case Study
Author Biography
Renee Rheinbolt-Uribe, Stellenbosch University Research Fellow, Faculty of Theology
“Maternal-thinking” in missiology emphasizes the importance of mothers in God’s eyes. Maternal-thinking emphasizes motherhood and womanhood, and it has implications for mission, church, and society.
Oxford center for religion and public life (OCRPL) public lecture
THE MOST REVD. DR. HENRY NDUKUBA
Jesus Christ said “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Decolonizing Data and Recovering the Person in Christian Organizations
by Dr Rebecca Supriya Shah.
The purpose of this paper is to prompt Western Christian organizations—funded and led by people whose histories are intertwined with colonialism—to examine the impact of their “gaze” on people in the Majority World. Today, because of the vast scale of the Christian humanitarian and relief industry,
Online workshop trains educators in online theological education
Myanmar is currently in the grip of a brutal and isolating civil war. Christians in this nation are struggling greatly to continue to train the next generation of leaders as conflict rages around them. At the request of our partners in the country, OCRPL’s networking arm called the Global Institute for Leadership and Development (GILD) project stepped in to offer Christian faculty training in using online education.
Why is Freedom of Religion rather ignored by Media and among the Public and what should be done?
by Canon Dr Chris Sugden.
Presentation at Red Wednesday International Conference on Freedom of Religion in Public Space, Charles University, Prague, November 29. 2023
In a cartoon in a recent Private Eye Magazine a father says to his child: “Let’s pray for peace in the Middle East”.
Religion and Social Justice Social Justice as Praxis – Dr Basilius M. Kasera
Namibian Journal of Social Justice – Vol 2, November 2022. pp 161 -176
Abstract: Social injustice is neither morally neutral nor does it happen in a social vacuum. To create an authentic environment which reflects some measure of social justice will need concrete symbols or life-enhancing goods.
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