Sunday evenings at St Aidan's in 2010

Mind ~ Body ~ Spirit

HELD ON THE LAST SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH

5:30 - 7:30 PM

Talks and discussion to kindle your MIND
Soups and bread to comfort your BODY
Evening prayers to lift your SPIRIT

February 28 Kelly O'Shanassy
Chief Executive Officer, Environment Victoria;  A Director of 'WaterKeepers Australia'
Will we outlast our rivers?
March 28
Dr Bob Birrell
Reader in Sociology at Monash University.  Joint editor (with Katharine Betts) of the quarterly demographic journal People and Place.
Population Growth versus the Environment: are the two compatible?
April 25
Bruce Steele AM
Adjunct Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts, Monash University;
Music Director, St Aidan's Uniting Church, North Balwyn
Johann Sebastian Bach:
Why is he "Great"?

May 30
Professor Michael Clyne AM
Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne; Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
Language, religion and social inclusion
June 27
Michael Shaik
Public advocate for Australians for Palestine; formerly worked for Department of Defence (Navy) as a Civilian Peace Monitor in Bougainville.
Barriers to peace between Palestine and Israel
July 25
Beth Dun
Music Therapist and Co-ordinator of Music Therapy at the Royal Children's Hospital.
Improving the health of children with Music Therapy
August 29
Dr Paul Harrison
Senior Lecturer in Consumer behaviour and Marketing, Deakin University; currently undertaking research for Victorian Dept of Justice and for ASIC examining the role of marketing in influencing rational decision-making.
Selling happiness: The incremental influence of marketing
September 26
Professor Neil Rees
Chair, Victorian Law Reform Commission; former Professor of Law and Dean of Law at University of Newcastle; Foundation co-editor of Aboriginal Law Bulletin.
Are we sleepwalking into a surveillance society?
October 31
Dr Anna Halafoff
Researcher for the UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations - Asia Pacific and the Global Terrorism Research Centre, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University.
Netpeace:  Multifaith movements and common security
November 28
Margaret Pont
Author of “Arthur Boyd and St Francis of Assissi"
The meaning of sainthood from a secular point of view. (Arthur Boyd’s insights experienced through his
St Francis works.)

EVENING PRAYERS will echo and enrich the theme of the talk.

For further information:

Phone: 9857 8412 (Office) OR email: mail@staidans.org,au

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