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GLOBALIZATION AND RURAL LIFE,
A Presentation to the United Church of Canada,
Bay of Quinte Annual Conference, Napanee, 2008

What is economic globalization and how does it affect rural life in Central Canada?

What role can Christian Churches play in building up community as a response to the negative impacts of economic globalization?

These are the questions asked and answered by this presentation prepared at the request of the Rural Life Committee of the Bay of Quinte Conference of the United Church of Canada.

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“Globalization and Rural Life”,
United Church of Canada, Bay of Quinte Annual Conference, Napanee, 2008 - Link »

“Ecojustice”,
keynote address to Anglican Church of Canada, Niagara Synod, Hamilton, 2007 - Link »

“Climate Change, Globalization and the Problem of Social Agency in Ecumenical Social Ethics”,
a public lecture given to the Ecumenical Institute, University of Geneva, Switzerland, October 2006

“Kyoto Protocol Negotiations and Implicit Ethico-Religious Principles”
a joint presentation with Dr. David Hallman to the Religion, International Diplomacy, and Economics Colloquium of the Munk Centre for International Studies, Toronto, March 2006.

“Ethics of Leadership in Families or Leadership in Ethical Families”,
a paper presented to the second Globethics.net Leadership Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2005 - Link »

“Integration & Disintegration: Economic Globalization & the Islands of Hope”,
Paper presented to WCC Consultation on Economic Globalization & the Island of Hope, Nadi, Fiji, Aug. 11-16, 2001 - Link »

“Food and Water”,
joint presentation to the General Synod, Anglican Church of Canada and the National Convention, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, Waterloo, June 2001

“Globalization and Rural Development”,
Conference on Rural Economic Development, Bismarck, North Dakota, Oct. 2000

“Models of Ministry and the Problem of Money”,
paper presented to the Saskatoon Theological Union, Fall 1999

“Friendship as a Moral Norm and the Problem of Boundaries in Clergy Ethics”,
A paper presented to a conference on “The Life and Work of John Macmurray”, King’s College, Old Aberdeen, Scotland, April 1998

“Is the Rural Population of Saskatchewan an Endangered Species”,
presented to the 5th Annual Prairie Conservation and Endangered Species Conference, Saskatoon, Feb. 22, 1998

“Ethics in Ministry: A Workshop”,
St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon, Jan. 24, 1998 & Emmanuel College, Toronto, Ont., Dec. 6, 1997

“Principles for an Investment Ethic in the Context of Globalization”,
International Consultation on Investment Ethics, Geneva, Switzerland, January 22, 1998

“Rural Sustainability in a Globalizing World: The Saskatchewan Case”,
presented to the Second Annual Wilfred Laurier University Conference on professional Ethics in Business, Health and Education: “GLOBAL MARKETS, GLOBAL MORALS?” Waterloo, ON, October 23 & 24, 1997

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
& PUBLIC LECTURES • 1997-1993

“When is a Journalist Not a Journalist?”
A Case Study presented to the Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics Annual Meeting, Memorial University, St. John’s Nfld., June 3, 1997

“Building a Moral Economy”,
St. Peter’s Abbey, Muenster, SK, April 1997

“Putting the Interchurch Coalitions in Context”
a Ten Days for Global Justice Event, Humboldt, SK, Feb. 23, 1997

“The Moral Panic About the Canada Pension Plan”,
Central Alberta Council on Aging, Red Deer, AB, Jan. 25, 1997

“Ethics for Rural Community”,
A Case Study presented to the Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics Annual Meeting, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, May 27, 1996

“Globalization, Agriculture and Community”,
keynote address, Ontario Farm Women’s Network, Annual Meeting, Trenton, ON, March, 1996

“Globalization and Sustainable Communities”,
a presentation made to the “Managing Agriculture for Profit ‘96” Conference, Red Deer, AB, Jan. 1996

“Who Will Bless Globalization”,
a paper presented to the Ideological Criticism Group, Society for Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Nov. 1995

“Building Community as a Response to Globalization”,
Keynote Address , National Farmers Union Annual Convention, Edmonton, AB, January, 1995

“Emerging Questions in Clergy Ethics”,
a paper presented with Dr. Maureen Muldoon to a joint meeting of the Canadian Theological Society and the Canadian Society for the Study of Clergy Ethics, Calgary, AB, June 1994

“Globalization, Community and the Farm Crisis”
a paper presented to a conference on “Agricultural Technology and Farm Work” sponsored by the Dept. of Sociology, University of Regina, Feb. 1994

“Ethics, Economics & Society”,
a lecture series presented to the annual Church & Society Conference, Grande Prairie, AB, 1993

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
& PUBLIC LECTURES • 1992-1984

“When the System Farms the Farmers”,
presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics in conjunction with the Canadian Sociological and Anthropological Association, Charlottetown, P.E.I., May 30, 1992

“John Macmurray and Contextual Theology”,
presented to the annual meeting of the International John Macmurray Society, Marquette University, Milwaukee, October 1991

“Coalitions: They served us in the past, do we need them in the future?”,
a paper presented to a conference entitled “Canadian Churches & Social Justice - Priorities for the 1990s”, 1991

“How Karl Polanyi’s Moral Economy Can Help Religious and Other Social Critics”,
presented to the Third International Karl Polanyi Conference, Milan, Italy, November 1990

“Spirituality and the Material World”,
a paper presented to a conference entitled “Prairie Fire: Lessons from the Social Gospel”, Winnipeg, March 1990

“Christian Faith, Sexuality and Aids”,
a paper presented to a conference entitled “Aids and Development”, University of Waterloo, Kitchener/Waterloo, March 1990

“What’s To Be Learned from Canadian Protestant Statements on the Economy?”
a paper presented to a conference entitled “God’s Justice in a New Century: The Future of Religion and Economic Justice” sponsored by Interfaith Action for Economic Justice on behalf of the World Council of Churches, Washington, D.C., November, 1989

“The Idea of Capitalism or the Capitalism of Ideas: A Moral Critique of The Copyright Act”,
presented to the annual meeting of the Society for Socialist Studies, Quebec City, 1989

“Listening to the Land: A Theological Response to Free Trade”,
a paper presented to the annual meeting of the Canadian Unitarian Council, Saskatoon, May, 1988

“Canadian Churches and Social Change”,
a paper presented to the annual meeting of the Society for Socialist Studies, Winnipeg, June, 1986

“Strange Bedfellows: Canada’s Churches and the New Political Economy”,
a paper presented to the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Guelph, June 1984



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