Fair Trade

A discussion on the Sola Panel. I am glad for voices like John Sandeman in these kind of discussions!

I do get worried about the nature of some of the discussion in the comments on this post though. Not so much worried about attitudes to fair-trade: I agree there are other approaches to the problem. More the manner.

I want to see more of what Dave Miers calls 'humble orthodoxy'. There is a tendency within Sydney Anglicanism towards 'hyper-critical-ness' (that's my term for it). We are so committed (and rightly so) to preaching Jesus alone that we are the first to relentlessly cut down anything that isn't explicitly gospel preaching.

I'm all for preaching the Christ and him crucified; to preaching him 'of first importance', but I don't think this means we need to demolish every attempt to be culturally relevant in order to achieve this.