tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50637015954445777972011-10-18T11:01:05.807-07:00A forum hosted by the Akron Christian Reformed ChurchRedbaerdnoreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063701595444577797.post-39668354053120095542007-03-08T07:10:00.000-08:002007-03-08T07:15:59.196-08:00

On March 26, 2007, Malone's Worldview Forum will feature the topic: “Wal-Mart, Global Corporations and Consumerism” The Proponents will be Don Soderquist, Former Chief Operating Officer for Wal-Mart and Jon deGraaf, Filmaker, Author and Advocate of Taking Back Your Time A Film Forum will be held on March 28 at 7:30 p.m. and we will show An Inconvenient Truth - now a two-time Oscar winner! We

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Some of you are just finding the site for the first time. There are many different ways you can participate....If you'd like to have get a bi-weekly digest of posts, email me (arudd @ malone dot edu) and let me know. If you'd like to submit content of posts or links -- email me and I'll be happy to post them on your behalf. Posts will (hopefully) contain concrete ways that we can and do respond

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I wanted to fill you in on something I've been thinking and reading about that applies directly to our conversations in small group and Sunday school. We all know about the necessity for Fair Trade coffee and have even committed (at some level) to serving it at church functions. However, I've recently become aware of (through the Simply in Season website - a cookbook connected with the MCC)

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(not the starting point or end point, but part of your journey in the liturgical year)o Examine your own desires and buying habits and learn to eat seasonallyo Buy from farmers’ markets in season (and eat less for the money!)o Buy grass-fed meats directly from farmers: Eat Wild Ohioo Review your retirement savings/investments portfolio to see where and to whom your money is goingo Read and study

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o Continue and increase our care for the needy local families and refugee families (local-global connections)o Bring our own mugs for coffee and tea (less Styrofoam)?o Stewardship of our building and grounds as a positive example (e.g., energy use, recycling our waste, etc.)o Connect with what is already happening in Highland Square and Akron (e.g., First Presbyterian Church has a food pantry

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(connected to how God speaks to us in the liturgy?)• New ideas for concrete community actions (connected to how God speaks to us in the liturgy?)o Learn more in the adult education class about Burma and Liberia and Central America… o Start a church food co-op as in days of old• Join Community Supported Agriculture (weekly boxes of seasonal produce)• Lots of nearby farms are listed at http://

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• Ideas to bridge liturgy and lifeo Write a belief/faith statement stating how each liturgical season relates us to the rest of the worldo Commit to specific, common actions for each season: “During Lent, we will fast from ____________ together, because we feel God leading us in this direction.” “During Easter, we will _______.”o Review the Contemporary Testimony of the CRC; it makes connections

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• Things we are already doing that are in the right directiono Benevolence fund of the deaconso Fair trade coffee?o Karsten Kitcheno Sharing and giving rides to church (keep on carpooling!)o Make more use of FreeCycle and even start our own version (Amber Waters’ idea)o Others?from Scott's in-class handout.

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Some concerns and questions people have raised • All this concern about knowing the workers and buying whole/organic/local foods may not be practical for lower-income people.• Should we focus on tending our own gardens or on changing society? What about others in society (e.g., kids eating school lunches that are unhealthy)? Do we go beyond boycotts to making demands for changes or does that

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For those of you who have been in the globalization class … I was investigating the “csa” options “locally” and found the Mud Run farm in Navarre (says it’s about 6 miles south of Massillon). See links below … it’s $400 for a share for 16 weeks. I emailed him and he said that they do have shares available for this season. Per the website: Each share includes; approx. 12-20 lbs. of organic

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In his latest book Thomas Friedman says that we live in a "flat world" of fierce global competition. But the worship of the Christian church in liturgical time ushers us into participation in the fullness of God. For us, both the world and time are round and full. To deal with globalization, we need to move from flatness to fullness, and the liturgical year can help us make this move. Thomas

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