Sounds like Judy has been reading the resources for Social Justice Sunday on the NCCA website http://www.ncca.org.au/Home
(except that the link to the worship resources is broken!) Security at all Costs? Message from the National Council of Churches � How To Use this Kit � Understanding Security - Understanding Violence � Security at all Costs? A Christian Reflection � Resources for Worship � The Cost of Clothes � For Richer or Poorer � Secure Communities � An Insurance Policy? � Excising Our Welcome � Securing Space � Our Houses, Our Castles, Our Homes But then there are copies on the way by snail mail. regards John Halford [EMAIL PROTECTED] 48 Shawlands Avenue Blackburn 3130 (03) 9878 6169 0405 193 924 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead http://groups.msn.com/JohnHalford/mylinks.msnw - some links ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Redman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, August 20, 2004 2:13 pm Subject: A good basis for considering policies? > Hi everyone, > > Sojourners (US based Christian magazine) currently has a petition > goingwhich is working against a religious right campaign to convince > Christians that they should vote for Bush: > > "It is the responsibility of every political conservative, every > evangelical Christian, every pro-life Catholic, every traditional > Jew...to get serious about re-electing President Bush." > - Jerry Falwell, The New York Times, July 16, 2004 > > "I think George Bush is going to win in a walk. I really believe I'm > hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in > 2004.The Lord has just blessed him.... It doesn't make any > difference what he > does, good or bad." > - Pat Robertson, AP/Fox News, January 2, 2004 > > See http://go.sojo.net/campaign/takebackourfaith > > While I am not aware of anything similar in Australia, the > petition has > some material in it that I think is applicable here as well. It says: > > We are not single-issue voters. > > We believe that poverty - caring for the poor and vulnerable - is a > religious issue. Do the candidates' budget and tax policies reward the > rich or show compassion for poor families? Do their foreign policies > include fair trade and debt cancellation for the poorest countries? > (Matthew 25:35-40, Isaiah 10:1-2) > > We believe that the environment - caring for God's earth - is a > religious issue. Do the candidates' policies protect the creation or > serve corporate interests that damage it? (Genesis 2:15, Psalm 24:1) > > We believe that war - and our call to be peacemakers - is a religious > issue. Do the candidates' policies pursue "wars of choice" or respect > international law and cooperation in responding to real global > threats?(Matthew 5:9) > > We believe that truth-telling is a religious issue. Do the candidates > tell the truth in justifying war and in other foreign and domestic > policies? (John 8:32) > > We believe that human rights - respecting the image of God in every > person - is a religious issue. How do the candidates propose to change > the attitudes and policies that led to the abuse and torture of Iraqi > prisoners? (Genesis 1:27) > > We believe that our response to terrorism is a religious issue. Do the > candidates adopt the dangerous language of righteous empire in the war > on terrorism and confuse the roles of God, church, and nation? Do the > candidates see evil only in our enemies but never in our own policies? > (Matthew 6:33, Proverbs 8:12-13 ) > > We believe that a consistent ethic of human life is a religious issue. > Do the candidates' positions on abortion, capital punishment, > euthanasia, weapons of mass destruction, HIpandemics-and genocide > around the world obey the biblical injunction to > choose life? (Deuteronomy 30:19) > > Judy > -- > "Politics is the work we do to keep the world safe for our > spirituality"- Judith Plaskow > > Rev Judy Redman > Uniting Church Chaplain > University of New England > Armidale 2351 > ph: +61 2 6773 3739 > fax: +61 2 6773 3749 > web: http://www.une.edu.au/campus/chaplaincy/uniting/ > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the > message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) > See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm > ------------------------------------------------------ > ________________________________________________________ GoConnect Internet Access - $13.95* for 30 hrs per month Unlimited Downloads Be part of the advance force - JOIN NOW! http://www.goconnect.com.au *Terms and Conditions Apply. ------------------------------------------------------ - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm ------------------------------------------------------
