Centre for Rural Community Leadership and Ministry

Conferences & other Events

Upcoming Events

• ARDN (Alberta Rural Development Network) Conference
  Creating Rural Connections
  May 11 -13, 2010
  Lethbridge, Alberta
  
  
• International Rural Church Association (IRCA) International Conference
  Hunger: The Global Challenge
  Altenkirchen, Germany, September 20 to 26, 2010

• R. Alex Sim Rural Symposium
  Therefore Choose Life - Nurturing Rural Congregations and Communities
  October 25-27, 2010
  Crief Hills, Ontario
  

 

Past Events

• Rooted in Faith: Celebrating Rural Churches in Community 2009
  October 2009, Lloydminster, Alberta

Theme Speakers:

1. Brother David Andrews, CSC, JD, Senior Representative: Food & Water Watch, Senior Advisor to the President of the 63rd UN General Assembly

• The Rural Church: Dynamics of Decline and Resilience (93 KB)
• Spirituality for Sustainability (109 KB) Listen to Presentation

2. Dittmar Muendel, Associate Director of the Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life

• You have Healed the Wounds of My People Lightly: Finding Genuine Hope Rather than False Optimism for Rural Communities (comming soon)
• Toward the Healing of Creation: The Crucial Role of Churches in Restoring “Membership” with Land & Community (comming soon)
  
• Suggested Readings:
  

  The Development Dictionary, Wolfgang Sachs (ed)
  The Art of the Commonplace, Wendell Berry, (ed. Norman Wirzba)
  The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry
  Deep Economy, Bill McKibben
  The Revolution of Hope, Erich Fromm
  When Corporations Rule the World, David Korten

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