Category: Speeches

(2020) Yes. We Should Download the Covid 19 App.

This debate is about doing good in our lives. About caring for others and getting ready for the next wave of Covid-19 infections. The app is voluntary, the information collected is not owned by the government, there is no policing, there are many protections.

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(2019) On Gleaning

This powerpoint was stimulated by an article that Josh Ridley sent to Adam Geha: Bruce Baker and Tom Parks, ‘The Book of Ruth Can Transform the Way We Do Business Today’, Christianity Today, 21 June 2019. I presented these slides to the informal “Eggs No Bacon” ‘Abrahamic faiths and beyond’ ecumenical breakfast club.

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Adam Geha, Muhammad Yunus, and Michael Easson, with the book A World of Three Zeros.

(2018) Welcome to Professor Muhammad Yunus

Good morning everyone. Thank you for joining this brunch with Professor Muhammad Yunus. Please join me in acknowledging the Gadigal people of the Eora nation – the traditional custodians of this land. We pay respect to elders, past and present, and we also extend our welcome to all indigenous people present.

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The school logo.

(2014) Manners Maketh Man

At my university graduation at Kensington in 1976, I wondered who the hell was the apparently famous, but then unknown to me, spot-lighted old guy rambling-on in such a soft voice. I cannot remember a word Douglas Stewart said. There is no fire on the snow memory.

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