Interesting idea. I've been developing similar lines of thought: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T3h31ex-XF8df5fScgHNyIR65d9rnANBhRoHOVsgSFc/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T3h31ex-XF8df5fScgHNyIR65d9rnANBhRoHOVsgSFc/edit?usp=sharing</a><div>
<br></div><div>Mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Challen</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peterchallen@gmail.com" target="_blank">peterchallen@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:28 PM<br>Subject: Honouring a Theology of Land - 3 conference latest<br>To: <br><br><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-repeat:initial initial">Herewith the sites for registration and for options for
making a donation for the three spring conferences</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-repeat:initial initial">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;</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-repeat:initial initial">and </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-repeat:initial initial">turning our rich rhetoric about the
universality of mono-theistic faith into tangible applications, </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-repeat:initial initial">to which we can
all contribute.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-repeat:initial initial"> ////////////////////////////</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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.</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(80,0,80)">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">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?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(80,0,80)">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">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?</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(80,0,80)">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:12pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050">'A THEOLOGY OF LAND AND ITS
IMPLICATIONS FOR CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS'</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050">1] April 6th 10-4 at St Mary, Aldermary, City of London</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#005580">Honouring the Theology of the Land : </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">GOD & THE GOOD
LIFE: THE AUDIT [1st of 3] - </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099">250 places</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050">Register on</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050"> </span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><a href="http://god-and-the-goodlife.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155cc">http://god-and-the-goodlife.eventbrite.com/</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050">2] May 4th 10-2 at Christ Church North Southwark </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#005580">Honouring the Theology of the Land : </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">GREAT AWAKENINGS: THE
APPLICATION [2nd of 3] - </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099">150 places</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050">3] June 1st 10-2 at St James, Piccadilly </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#005580">Honouring the Theology of the Land : </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">HOLY LAND: THE
AFFIRMATION [3rd of 3] - </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099">250 places</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
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