This morning's open-resource question for the General Ordination Exams asks to choose a MDG ...
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger .
2. Achieve universal primary education.
3. Promote gender equality and empower women.
4. Reduce child mortality.
5. Improve maternal health.
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Create a global partnership for development with targets for aid, trade and debt relief.
contributions TEC can make toward it and what political, economic, and cultural factors need to be taken into account at the parish and the diocesan levels?
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Be sure and check out this page from the EGR website and also the links above to all the individual MDG pages.
For an excellent exposition of how the MDGs are a natural 21st century incarnation of the mission trajectory of the church, click here and read the Rev. Dr. Ian Douglas' excellent piece Why Should We As Christians Care About the MDGs.
How would you answer this question?
