Responsible Consumerism

I often think about how our systems keep us complicit in the oppression of the voiceless– those trafficked individuals who make our clothes, the animals who we torture for food, the Earth we plunder for profit.  The act of oppressing each of these groups (whether we all agree or not on what we consider appropriate means to ends) is rooted in our anthropocentric understandings of human existence… many of which are rooted in traditional biblical understandings.  I know that a goal of my ministry will be to try to give voice to each of these groups and help people consider the ways that we can “control our ripples” and undermine these cruel acts of dominion by how we (at least those of us who have some agency and freedom in how we can spend money) contribute to these systems and the ways we can reject them.