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?