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The Fall Forum @ St. Andrew’sEveryday Justice #1 Coffee
seven weeks of everyday ways to change the world!
Sunday September 22 CoffeeSunday September 29 Chocolate
Sunday October 13 CarsSunday October 20 Food
Sunday October 27 ClothesSunday November 10 Waste
making the connection
from segregation to communion
the movement #om disconnected parts of our lives to a whole
1. becoming aware of the world’s needs
2. realizing our choices make a difference
3. appreciating how our faith informs our view of justice
4. being inspired to make an everyday change
the high cost of low prices
‘every decision has a price tag’
ethical consumption: the application of our moral values and ethical standards to our consumer habits
Seven weeks, seven consumer habits coffee, chocolate, cars, food, clothes, waste, debt
change the world...
don’t panic!
taking sma', intentional steps
it can be hard to know where to begin
allowing our faith to speak to us about how we live in the world
Q: how does your faith make a difference to how you live
your everyday life?
what would jesus do?
a revolution of justice
fo'owers of the way
to follow jesus is to enter a new way of living
‘The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim #eedom for the prisoners and
recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed #ee’
luke 4:18
what is justice?
‘justice is what love looks like in public’ - cornell west
honoring the image of god in each other
sin is the fracturing of that honoring relationship >
injustice
through jesus, unjust relationships can be healed >
justice
mending the world
tikkun olam - mending the worldjustice after Nuremberg
biblically, justice is righteousness (Hb: tsedeq; Gk:
dikaios)
to live justly, to do justice, is to act such that people might live
rightlyrestoration rather than
retribution
coffee!
what’s a cupof joe worth?
mark and the ‘fair trade jungle blend ’ (pp.31-32)
five companies - nestle, kraft, procter & gamble, sara lee and tchibo - control 50% of global
coffee market and its prices
2001, at the end of a decade of massive growth in coffee
consumption, all-time low point in prices paid to growers
now coffee sells for less than the cost of production
the wages ofsin is death
the loss of coffee farming as a sustainable way of life has
exacerbated the movement of illegal labor from central
america to the northin 2001, 14 farmers died from
dehydration and exposure having been dropped by their smuggler 60 miles from the
U. S. border in the deserta living wage: the minimum
necessary for a person to maintain basic standard of
living
just money
the long arc of history
‘is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of
injustice’ - isaiah 58:6
‘so I wi' come and put you on trial...against those who de#aud laborers of their wages...’ - malachi 3:5
‘look! the wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of
the lord almighty’ - james 5:4
money, politics, and religion
‘when people te' me that religion and politics should not mix, I ask them which bible they have been
reading’ - Desmond Tutu
what does it mean to worship god, singing of god’s just ways on earth, and then to drink coffee
that exploits its growers?
Q: should politics make its way into the church hall?
what you can doIn 2008, fair-trade price for
coffee was set at $1.26 per pound (average per pound = 65 cents)
fair-trade certification also insists on fair treatment of workers, no
child laborwe can buy fair trade, ask our
stores to stock fair trade products, lobby our church to
serve fair trade goods to church members
what now?