The Eye of the Needle

Biblical clues for a new economy

Keynote addresses by

Professor Ulrich Duchrow, Kairos Europa, Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Heidelberg

and

Dr Molly Scott Cato, Director of the Cardiff Institute for Co-operative Studies and author of Green Economics

Facilitated by Simon Barrow, Co_Director, Ekklesia

Saturday March 24th 2012, 10am to 4pm.

£30, incl. lunch

The Vassall Centre, Gill Avenue, Bristol, BS16 2QQ

Many big questions remain unanswered since the global economic crisis of 2008. How can we create a more stable global economy? How can we overcome the growing gap between the richest and the poorest? How do we change the model in which risks taken by private companies to achieve big profits are underwritten by the public purse? How can we create an economy which recognises the limits of the earth's resources?

And does Christianity have anything distinctive to offer to this search for a new economy? The Bible has a great deal to say about debts and debt cancellation, about land and ownership, about wealth and poverty, about equality and justice. Are there biblical ideas and concepts which could shape our economic thinking today?

These are the questions which will be addressed at a conference organised by ISR and Ekklesia and which will take place in Bristol in March.

Booking:

ISR, 162 Pennywell Road, Bristol BS5 0TX or eyeoftheneedle@ccisr.org.uk 0117 955 7430 or www.ccisr.org.uk/eyeoftheneedle

Dioceses of Bath & Wells, Bristol, Exeter, Gloucester, Salisbury and Truro

Conference Agenda

The conference will include opportunity for group work in which the following issues will be explored:

We also hope that there will be opportunities for Christian groups engaged in existing alternative economic practice to tell their story.

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The Churches' Council for Industry and Social Responsibility