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Documents, mostly PDF

• Archive of Faith & Reason articles by Ian Harris of Wellington 
• Seeking the Sacred in a Multi-Faith World – Lecture by Dr Val Webb delivered at St Andrew’s on The Terrace on October 13, 2011

• The Human Grounds of Compassion: 
  Is 'positive atheism' an oxymoron? Bill Cooke, 30 September, 2010 
  Ethics without God: Exploring a Secular Basis for our Ethics - Lloyd Geering, 5 October, 2010
• In Praise of the Secular - Lloyd Geering, 2007
• The Greening of Christianity (PDF document) - Lloyd Geering, 2005
• Fundamentalism: The Challenge to the Secular World (Web Page) - Lloyd Geering 2003
• Paradise on Earth (PDF document) - Lloyd Geering, 2000
• Images of the City  (PDF document) - Lloyd Geering 1984
• Sacrifice in a Secular World (PDF document) - Lloyd Geering 1985

• Building a Responsible Society: Four lectures in 1998 involving Jenny Shipley, Helen Clark, Jonathan Boston and Lloyd Geering
• Crisis in the Christian Way (PDF document) Lloyd Geering 1993
• What Future the family? (1994): Brian Easton - Family Policy - Creative or Destructive? 
  
  

Audio

• Achieving Equality Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand, April 2001

• The Blessings and Curses of the Bible Phyllis Trible, June 2002

• Death Henryk Skolimowski, March 2000

• Ethics and Morals Lloyd Geering, October 1998

• Making Meaning, Finding Health James Stuart, April 1999

• The Priority of Wisdom Lloyd Geering, September 2002

• Reforming Christianity Bishop John Spong, July 2001

• The Kingdom of God Lloyd Geering, May 2004

• Love Lloyd Geering, May 2004

• The Greening of Christianity (2005) In four parts (1) The Global Crisis, (2) Beyond "Our Father who art in Heaven", (3) The Ecological Moral Imperative, (4) Greening Rites and Festivals

• Power of the Gospels - Alexander Shaia, April 2012

• Marriage Equality: Reflections on Church and State  (Link to PrideNZ website)

Video

• Prof Lloyd Geering explaining the loss of the traditional Christian concept of God, and the need for a God concept that places responsibility of each of us to maintain the peace and to maintain the planet. The full version is available from Top Shelf Productions.

• The Last Western Heretic
  A documentory on the heresy trial of Lloyd Geering.
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• Faith for the 21st Century: Christianity at the crossroads Lloyd Geering gave this address at St Michaels Church, Melbourne

• Wrestling with God Lloyd Geering gives a lecture on wrestling with the concept of God. This was given at a SAGE (Successful Ageing, Growth and Enjoyment) meeting at St Michaels Hall in Melbourne
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• Christianity without God  an excerpt by Lloyd Geering

• Christianity and Buddhism – Can they remain relevant in the 21st century? a discussion between secular Buddhist teacher Stephen Batchelor and Lloyd Geering

• Jung the Unconscious and Us an introduction by Lloyd Geering to the series of four lectures