Australian Association for Mission Studies

Here is a selection of the papers that were given at the conference on "Christian Mission in the Public Square" held by AAMS and PaCT at ACC&C in Canberra from 2 to 5 October 2008 (see conference page for more details on the conference).

All the papers sent in so far are here. Most are in PDF.

* Clive Ayre, "The church in the eco-crisis"

* Stephen Burns, "Worship, mission and the public square: A primer"

* Matthew Clarke and John Donnelly, "Learning from missionaries: Lessons for secular development practitioners" (a zipped PowerPoint file)

* Darren Cronshaw, "The shaping of public theology in emerging churches"

* Jim and Therese D'Orsa, "Education in mission: Mission in education"

* Lynette Edge, "Training ministers today"

* Bill Edwards, "Missiology and Australian Aboriginal missions: A personal journey"

* Garth Eichhorn, "The church and the powers: A missions perspective"

* Teresa Flaherty, "Australian Religious women on mission in Papua New Guinea: Sisters of Mercy called to change in church and nation (1956-1981)"

* Cyril Hally, "Missionary discipleship"

* Mark S Hurst, "Anabaptism: The beginning of a new monasticism"

* Doug Hynd, "Public theology after Christ and culture: Post-Christendom trajectories"

* Jonathan Inkpin, "Nei Neiwa Yi Yu Gali: Towards a whole body theology of reconciliation"

* John A Moses, "Anzac Day as Australia's All Souls' Day: Canon David John Garland's vision for the commemoration of the fallen"

* Rangi Nicholson, "Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Monitoring Maori language and cultural policies of the Anglican church in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Polynesia"

* Tammy Smith, "Learning to be a guest in the home of another: First impressions"

* Wendy Snook, "An exploration of multicultural body-language communications and its implications for Australian theology and mission"

* Kevin Walcot, "Missiology in the grey zone: Discussing 'mission' at U3A-ACT"

* Heather Weedon, "Catholic Religious Sisters: A dying breed?"

* Justin Whelan, "Christian nonviolent direct action as public theology"

* Robert Withycombe, "Planting a colonial Anglican mission in New Guinea before 1900: Inhibitions to growth"