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The 2016 Exclusion and Embrace Conference will be held on 21-23 August 2016 at the Jasper Hotel, 489 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Australia.Featured art
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Day three ……
It is the last day of our three day conference and we began with two fantastic presentations from Professor Hans Reinders and Dr. Sam Kabue. Professor Hans Reinders is the Chair of Ethics at VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands and he discussed with … Continue reading
Spirituality: who gives a toss?
Andy Calder will be presenting at the Exclusion and Embrace Conference on Spirituality: who gives a toss? Andy is a Uniting Church in Australia minister, in the role of Disability Inclusion with the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania. He is … Continue reading
Promoting Church Inclusion of Intellectual Disability Across India
Dr Nathan Grills, Mrs Natalie Tan and Ms Jubin Varghese will be presenting on ‘Promoting Church Inclusion of Intellectual Disability Across India’. Christian communities and churches in India have been slow to include people with disability and especially those with intellectual … Continue reading
Tribute to the late Rev Canon Dr Christopher Newell AM (1964–2008)
A feature of the conference will be a tribute to the late Rev Dr Christopher Newell AM. Christopher was a visionary social activist and disability advocate widely published across fields including ethics, telecommunications, pastoral care and spirituality. Christopher contributed substantially … Continue reading
The Luke14 initiative
Rob Nicholls is one of the presenters at the Exclusion and Embrace conference this year. He’ll be discussing the ‘The Luke14 initiative: addressing exclusion in faith communities’. He’ll be looking at why it would be necessary to convince church communities that including … Continue reading