Matthew Fox in the 18th of the 95 theses he pinned to the church door in Wittenberg says Eco Justice is a necessity for planetary survival and human ethics; without it we are crucifying Christ all over again in the firm of destruction of forests, species, air and soil. Nice one Matthew !
What are people like ? Some are saints, some are sinners...you may say. Perhaps in the current age we would say : “Some are celebrities, some are scroungers” We do have a way - don't we - of putting things into binaries, black and white, yes and no, good and bad, this and that. It works for computer code but I don't know if it works for human beings made in the image of God..... Perhaps now more than in previous ages and certainly since the economics of the Thatcher era arrived, the neoliberal economics that makes the market its God, we have so many stories that make people other than ourselves...and so make it possible to cut their wages, to implement austerity. We have heard the stories about those who are poor and how they are to blame for their property because of the lack of initiative, laziness, fecklessness etc. In today’s Rochdale Observer the story about poor children not being ready for primary school can be told to us as poor parenting causing t...