There’s No Such Thing as Christian Ethics
29 Mar 2007
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Two sundays ago our church began a series on issues of the environment, and social action, and consumerism. I wanted us to begin by taking a step back from the discussion on whether global warming is happening, and what can we do if anything, and look at the bigger issues of the ethics of Christian living. How should we live as christians and what is the context of consumerism we find ourselves in. The introductory talk is here.
The title is the suggestion that to be a christian is to live an ethical live (rather than ethics be something we can bolt on afterwards) and why and how consumer culture and christian culture makes it optional so much of time.
Also in gathering practical resources, for the action end of caring for the environment, one of the most helpful I have found (thanks Peter Aschoff for telling me about this) for tracking the environmental decisions we make is www.wearewhatwedo.org. This site gives you simple things you can do, and an online system to track them and see the effect they have. You can also track your actions through a group registration which we are considering, so we can measure in some way the collective impact of our community as we take action.
Are there any other similar sites you have found helpful for doing this?
Tagged: Christian-Living, Environment, Ethics, Resources
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Comment by cynthia
9.44 pm on 31 Mar 2007
Oops, Jase. Your link is hyper but may include a freudian typo in the url. Are we what we do or are we rarely what we do ? :-)
Fortunately, this is known to generate comments (like this one) yet minimize potential link love. Paul can it possible that you somehow dozed offline for some seconds! C
Comment by Paul
12.20 am on 3 Apr 2007
lol, yes cynthia – even blog addicts like me need their down time :)
Comment by Jason Clark
6.45 am on 1 Apr 2007
Hi Cynthia, there is s slight typo in the link to ‘we are what we do’, I’ll get it fixed.
Comment by Phil Whittall
11.08 pm on 4 Apr 2007
Hi Jason – it’s good to come across other Christians that are engaging with these issues. Here in the UK it seems to me that a debate over a new morality is emerging (what is an ‘ethical lifestyle’?) but the church is largely absent from the conversation. Some friends and I are engaged in this through the Breathe project http://www.ibreathe.org.uk – if we are to lead genuinely authentic Christian lives then the infratructure of how we live surely must take into account consumerism, environmental issues etc along with more traditional morality issues. Anyway, keep engaging with the issue!
Phil
http://www.thesimplepastor.blogspot.com
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