Ethical sales

We try to buy our clothes from fairtrade / organic / ethical companies… but it is still hard to avoid the lure of the high street and the price tag usually causes the majority to head to the high street.
But there are other ways, I’ve found getting creative about shopping helps, as does heading to [...]

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.
The Story of Stuff is a great little film [...]

re:mixing our approach

The recent blah…, subverting the empire, with Brian Walsh and Sylvia Keesmat looking at their book Colossians Re:mixed, was a good day…
Mark Berry gives a good summary of the day… which really followed the flow of the book, which I’ve mentioned before.
The morning sessions helpfully explored Colossians in the contexts of Israel (The Jewish [...]

Organic fruit and veg box

A few people have asked me recently about where we get our fruit and veg from… so I thought it was time I mentioned the delights of Riverford Organic deliveries, especially when I noticed that this week they have announced that they now deliver, through local farms, to most of England and south Wales.
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Summer’s here

I’ve been far too quiet for far too long… and already summer is here, so I thought it was time my blog got a summer make-over… and what better way to mark the summer than a camper van by the sea?
We’ve been looking for a replacement of Dixie (our former vw camper van - as [...]

The ‘why’ of living in community

Just read this at the Mustard Seed House blog - article by Christine Sine about living in community, which resonates with my thinking… seeing community as essential to mission and discipleship:
Noemie did not grow up with a Christian background, but since her time in DC where she had opportunity to speak at length on how [...]

The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne

I’ve been trying to blog about The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne for a while now… but somehow every time I think about it I can never really sum it up. But that is probably because it is such a simple book about the story of a community of hopefuls [...]

Clothes exchange

You can now get paid (in vouchers) for taking old M&S to your local Oxfam shop… find out more - although you’ve gotta shop at M&S first to make that one work… anyone?

Black Gold Movie - action tip

A new documentary film about the impact of the coffee trade called Black Gold, is about to be released, so I am making it an action tip.
The film exposes the injustices of the international coffee trade industry by following the journey of Tadesse Meskela, General Manager of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Co. in Ethiopia, [...]

Believing without belonging

A new report from Tearfund on churchgoing in the UK has some interesting findings - especially finding more evidence for the need to grow new communities and fresh expressions of church. I have not read it all but the BBC website says the report finds that whilst people find “the church thing a little bit [...]