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Towards a Christian Understanding of the Middle East

By / 12 June 2007

The Middle East continues to be an arena of conflict, with religion and politics intersecting. Christians have a special stake in coming to a better understanding of this complex conflict, in which they are involved and to which they have contributed. This Theological Colloquium (the fourth in what has become an annual series mounted by the Wellington Theological Consortium) is designed to help Christians explore more fully the religious dimension of the contemporary Middle East. It offers the opportunity to both hear informed and expert analysts and to discuss their presentations.

Speakers

Rehana Ali is a Shura Council Member of the International Muslin Association of New Zealand (IMAN) and Wellington Representative of The Islamic Women’s Council of New Zealand.

Glen Barclay (Diploma of Scholar of Theology) is a Wellington Presbyterian minister. She has served as Leader/Administrator of Columbanus Community of Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and Global Missioner for the NZ Presbyterian Church in the World Council of Church’s Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme for Palestine/Israel. Glen Barclay is a Human Rights advocate and public speaker regarding Palestine/Israel.

Catherine Jones S.M.S.M. holds degrees in Education (University of the South Pacific), Church History (Catholic University of America) and a Graduate Certificate in Islamic Studies (Pontifical Institute in Rome). A Member of the Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary, she has worked in Fiji, Algeria, Mauritania, France, and New Zealand. Sister Catherine is involved in ecumenism and interfaith relations, including the Auckland Interfaith Council and Council of Christians and Muslims.

Robin Lane is a Presbyterian minster and a member of the Wellington Council for Christians and Jews.

Peter Lineham (MA Cant, BD Otago, DPhil Sus.) is Head of the School of Social & Cultural Studies on the Albany Campus of Massey Univeersity. He writes and teaches on the religious and social history of New Zealand and of 18th and 19th century England. He has published There We Found Brethren, No Ordinary Union, Bible in Society and a number of articles, and is co-editor of Transplanted Christianity.

Victoria Mason is a visiting lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Victoria University. Her research interests include human rights, the politics and history of the Middle East, Muslim communities and Islamophobia, the politics and history of South Africa, race and racism, conflict and post-conflict societies, migration and diasporas. She is about to submit her PhD thesis on the consequences for Palestinians in Kuwait of the 1990-1991 Gulf War.

Dave Moskovitz (BA Hons. from University of California, Berkeley in Computer Science and Linguistics) is a Lexicographer, IT Consultant, and Company Director, and has engaged in postgraduate research on New Zealand Sign Language. Past President of Temple Sinai (Wellington Progressive Jewish Congregation), he has been active on the interfaith scene for a number of years.

Peter Stuart has an M.A. in History (New Zealand) and in Theology (Oxford). He is an Anglican priest, and Secretary to the Wellington Theological Consortium. He has served as university chaplain and tutor, Canon Theologian in the Anglican Diocese of Wellington, and was the first (co-) Chairman of the Wellington Council of Christians & Jews.

Rosemary Wallis (M.A., Dip.Ed., Dip.Tchg., B.D) returned in March after four years in Beirut, Lebanon where she was director of Eastwood College, el Mansourieh, an evangelical school with multi-faith staff and students. She has also served as Assistant Principal of Middleton Grange School in Christchurch, and as a board chair and visiting lecturer of the Bible College of New Zealand’s Christchurch branch.

Susan Wilson has a B.Theol. (Hons) and M.Theol, from Otago University, with a major in Systematic Theology. She is on the staff of the Wellington Catholic Education Centre where she is involved with distance learning students, and teaching.

St Joseph’s church, Basin Reserve, Wellington

For further information contact:

The Wellington Theological Consortium
C/O Andrew Dawson
PO Box 12046
Wellington

witlibrary@wn.ang.org.nz
(04) 472 1057 extn.612

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