I would like to thank Deacon Gerald Du Pont and the organising committee for inviting me to speak at this international study conference organised by the International Diaconate Centre. It is a great honour for me to deliver this opening address.
Although I am now a theologian, my own background is deeply seeped in an understanding of the created world around us. My early career studying the natural sciences then researching the physiology of plants taught me just how much we depend on the living world in which we are placed and its intricacy and beauty. I moved into a study of theology in the late 1980s because agricultural plant science on its own did not seem to address the global and ethical challenges that even then were rising to the…
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