While feasting on abundance,
they banter and bray in serious postering tones
of the evils of gay marriage,
of the mind altering idea of ordaining women,
of the horrors of sexuality,
- More than 30 per cent of children in developing countries – about 600 million – live on less than US $1 a day.
- Every 3.6 seconds one person dies of starvation. Usually it is a child under the age of 5.
- Around 270 million children, just over 14 per cent of all children in developing countries, have no access to health care services.
- Some 13 per cent of children ages 7 to 18 years in developing countries have never attended school. This rate is 32 per cent among girls in sub-Saharan Africa (27 per cent of boys) and 33 per cent of rural children in the Middle East and North Africa.
- Over 1 billion people—1 in 6 people around the world—live in extreme poverty, defined as living on less than $1 a day.
- More than 800 million go hungry each day.
The earth continues to spin on an axis of hunger, poverty, violence...... while the dudes in robes, who study the Good Word focus on what they think matters. There are some who spend their days talking the talk, and others who spend their days walking their talk. Actions speak louder than shallow prayers and misguided hymns. Prioritizing and putting human beings first doesn't seem to be a prerequisite in the minds of the Lambeth delegates.
Is there something wrong with this picture. I am so tired of academically enhanced discourse which continues to overwhelm the realities we should be focusing on. Ivory tower philosophies don't feed the hungry, don't vaccinate the children, don't provide blankets to the homeless. Hell, ivory tower talking doesnt help to soothe the weeping of the forgotten. Effective guidance and leadership works within the Body of Christ where we all dwell equally. Effective leadership is harboured within messiness of living.
Can we just get someone in the lead to make a decision and move on to deal with the more important, life and death crises than whether or not two guys can marry? Let them marry for goodness sake.......throw the confetti, turn on the macerana, have a party in the church hall. And when the hangover of a good celebration goes away..........get out there and ACT.
7 comments:
i thought that was my post for a second...
tickle tackle my granddad used to call petty arguments when there was more important stuff to deal with...
paul....i just read it over and it does feel like one of your posts. Looks like I'm under the influence of Harbour thoughts.
Synchronicity maybe?
or
Great minds think alike.
yes, i'm thinking that we could have a good chin wag beyond the tickle tackle over a beer at one of those shank draw soirees.
amen to this post Dana...
My favourite debating subject. When I discuss with friends how we could solve problems in our country, world, we come up with so many answers. Answers the church leaders and political leaders can't come up with.
This pictute does hurt because the beauty is paid by people many which even couldn't afford it.
I will not go further because otherwise I am still typing for an hour.
Only one more which fuels me. The pope is against the pill. South America with many poor people are very catholic and can't feed the many children they get.
Ok that's enough I do believe but this is one of the reasons I don't believe in the church
Those are some horrific and very sobering statistics Dana. I wonder if there will ever be any answers.
I say this as a loyal Anglican. I humbly think the primates should get together every ten years and tend a garden. They should actually work with their hands and then give that food to the hungry. It would remind them of the real world outside of the ecclesiastical one as well as keep them busy. I suspect that they would all get along much better if they actually had to rely on each other for manual labor. You cannot tend the earth and be consumed by such ridiculaous things like whether or not someone's sexuality makes that person a full and equal human.
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