Watched two compelling documentaries recently.ÂÂ
China Blue, a clandestinely shot expose of a blue jean factory in China
…and Black Gold, a look at the plight of Ethiopian coffee growers who receive pennies for their efforts while westerners sip $5 lattes.
 
That got me wondering if the growing success in elevating the fair trade of coffee to a moral issue could work for something like clothing coming from the third world? Obviously there are organizations working towards this but it’s just not as sexy an issue as fair trade coffee… but why not and how could that change?
That got me pondering how many of the myriad products I consume daily in the west are linked back to similar scenarios.
That got me feeling a bit of complicity and that got me wondering what form activism in these matters should take for Christ followers, if any? What should it look like?  Should the church lead the way and set the pace in all endeavours essential to our humanity… art, social justice, human rights, space exploration, activism, environmental issues, politics (gasp!), etc… not just endeavours essential to our christianity?
Are these two different missions… or the same one? Is this a both/and rather than an either/or… and if so what does that balance/tension look like?
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