and also check out wonderland's post on fashioning an ethical industry where the fashion industry engages with the question of whether fashion can be fair.
and finally, george monbiot looks at the so-called 'self-vindicating policy on nuclear weapons development' - mighty scary stuff.
when i was talking to someone at the police yesterday (with me dog collar on) they said, 'i stay away from religion. all the problems of the world are about religion, politics, and land. and power. and its always men! will we ever get it right?'
and while it won't be anywhere near perfect in this world, the christian hope of personal transformation leading onto some corporate transformation through engagement with the deadly issues of life really does have something to offer. transformed individuals generally don't remain isolated - they engage with others.
this new globalised age we find ourselves in is struggling, i think, to learn to live with itself due to an immediacy and proximity unknown in ages gone by. and it has the ability to bring global destruction in completely imaginable ways. isolationism is struggling with globalisation, and yes, religion, politics, power, land, and men are in it up to their eyeballs.
martin luther king jr. said, 'an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind'.
while the complexity of life is mind-boggling, let's try to see and respect the image of god in all people, and demand that our political leaders, captains of industry, and religious leaders do the same.
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