---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Challen <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:31 AM Subject: To: Dear Friends, Here below, a reminder of the initiative by which we want to identify the universality in the truths the great faiths seek to share with each other and with many other people of good faith. Please do not let the accident of venue and day chosen detract from the ecumenical earnestness in which the examination of the biblically propounded Covenant of Trusteeship for 'everything under the rainbow' is proposed. We wanted a worship centre as the focus and Saturday was deemed the best day for a widely varied group to gather with adequate time to engage; and we selected three events to widen possibilities of attendance and to develop momentum with consultation between the events.. We apologise that there was no way we could make suitable choices for everyone in offering an open invitation. Our intention is to support as widely a representative gathering as we can assemble to work out the implications of the Covenant for our economic behaviour today and henceforth. The co-organisers hope that others will join in contributing to follow-up ecumenical events that might generate a momentum leading to the social reforms that all of the leaders of the three faiths are now identifying as necessary…. Please still consider - joining us, - recruiting others to represent your vital insights, - donating to help us meet the costs of what we are convinced is a task that must be tackled urgently. *Herewith the sites for registration and for options for making a donation for the three spring conferences* * * *PLEASE HELP us by inviting and attracting representatives of our great faith traditions to share in the exploration of COVENANT AND CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS, expressing how life is gift; and turning our rich rhetoric about the universality of mono-theistic faith into tangible applications, to which we can all contribute.* *////////////////////////////* Are the Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions fulfilling their foundation mission – the honouring of a Covenant of property rights in land that excluded the right to exclusive monopoly of a minority, but gifted to be shared by all - and if not, what should be done about it? These three conferences are designed to examine how the three Abrahamic faiths laid the foundations for a moral economics in which nature was to be shared for the common good. · The conferences, held in London churches, will reveal that Jesus identified the rent of land as the sacred source of revenue for the community. What should be done to encourage religious leaders to honour that advocacy by the people who adhere to the Christian faith? · Islamic scholars elaborated the principles of Land Taxation a thousand years before Adam Smith – can this history be reintegrated into the ethics of Islamic economics? · The Covenant with God came at a price – a moral code of conduct. Can this Covenant solve the territorial dispute over the Holy Land today? The Chief Rabbi spoke recently of the Covenant requiring us 'to serve and conserve' the earth. *'A THEOLOGY OF LAND AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS'* ////////////////////////////// 1] April 6th 10-4 at St Mary, Aldermary, City of London Honouring the Theology of the Land : *GOD & THE GOOD LIFE: THE AUDIT [1st of 3] - **250 places* Register on *http://god-and-the-goodlife.eventbrite.com/* ///////////////////////////////// 2] May 4th 10-2 at Christ Church North Southwark Honouring the Theology of the Land : *GREAT AWAKENINGS: THE APPLICATION [2nd of 3] - **150 places* *Registration on http://theologyofland2of3.eventbrite.com* /////////////////////////////// 3] June 1st 10-2 at St James, Piccadilly Honouring the Theology of the Land : *HOLY LAND: THE AFFIRMATION [3rd of 3] - **250 places* Registration on http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5506287454 * *///////////////////////////// Registration and donations can also be directly to *P B Challen *by this email address or to Canon P B Challen 21 Bousfield Rd. London SE14 5TP 020 7207 0509 Charitable contributions gaining us the tax advantage, can be made to 'THE LAND RESEARCH TRUST', c/o Peter Challen 21 Bousfield Rd. London SE14 5TP, The Land Research Trust is Charity No.327041 www.landresearchtrust. org <http://www.landresearchtrust.%20org/> ** -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/