Colossians 1:15-20 tells us that all things are made by God, sustained through God, exist for God. Christ redeems and reconciles all things … and we get to play a part in that. Christ’s reconciliation is carried out, in part, by the way we live our lives right where we are. God has put each of us, as part of his church on earth, in a particular place. We are to minister not just to the people of that place, but to the place itself.
Maya Angelou, interview with Kelly B. Trujillo, Relevant Magazine, April 22, 1913
Apologies to Sarah Bessey whose blog post, “I am damaged Goods,” was published in our Spring 2013 issue without prior permission. We regret our oversight and again refer readers to Sarah’s writings at A Deeper Story and at SheLoves Magazine.
Ethics Bytes
Conventional pollutants from existing conventional coal plants to create electricity contribute to asthma, other ling diseases, and heart attacks…joint study by the Harvard School of Public Health and Syracuse University Center for Health and the Global Environment.
Ethics Bytes…blasts from the past:
“What the Moral Majority is calling for, perhaps unknowingly, is a restoration of civil religion…which may be defined as the state’s use of religion for its own political ends..The establishment of morals derives from inner conviction and obedience rather than a mere outward conformity. Consequently, Falwell’s alternative to the current moral decadence of America is more consistent with the morality of civil religion than the morality of the Christian faith.”
—Wheaton theology professor, Robert Webber in his 1984 book, The Moral Majority: Right or Wrong?
Ethics Bytes
“Morality can be defined as the rightness or wrongness of human actions…Moralism means something else. It is not morality because it assumes the validity of one judgmental answer to every moral question…”
—St. Olaf College professor Erlings Jorstad in his 1981 book The Politics of Moralism,
Ethics Bytes
“We also need to…have international law that would prevent the continued abuse of girls in early child marriage and international trade in human beings is horrendous. “[In Atlanta Georgia] we have more than 200 girls every month, little girls, who are sold into slavery, primarily because Atlanta has the largest airport on Earth, and also because we have a lot of passengers coming in from the southern hemisphere, where girls can be bought for slavery and prostitution for about $1000. And so prostitution goes on.”
Former President Jimmy Carter Interview with Elizabeth Willoughby May 28, 2014 on looktothestars.org
