URGENT REQUEST TO 147 ASSOCIATES FOR THEIR INDIVIDUAL YEA OR NAY RESPONSE

Dear Associates,

As the Archbishop of Canterbury publicly admits to a sense of personal responsibility in the decline of church adherence, a possible shared public comment might be made.

I ask for your rapid yea or nay to the question of whether you would be willing to have your name added to those supporting a brief letter [to Church Times or other public voice] on the contextual structures [?Kin[G]dom of God] within which all pragmatic  threefold* actions should be set   [*Global/Societal/Personal or God/Binding Spirit/Exemplar Jesus].

At the request of the Christian Council for Monetary Justice, I wrote a letter similar to that below to the Archbishop of Canterbury several years ago, and received a note from one of his staff that it was not appropriate to put it to the Archbishop!  And jJust three weeks ago I sent the brief letter below to the Church Times over my own signature; but received no acknowledgement!

Could a repeat submission, indicating that ? 50 / ?100 others had agreed that their name be associated with the letter, have any better effect?

Please see boxed below and then reply Yes or No to your association with such an attempt at a succinct and graspable case for serious discussion of, and planning for, the implementation of profound structural change, while very limited time for large scale action remains before us.

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Dear Editor,

As fear of extinction mounts the basic thrust of our faith is even more relevant. That thrust is at once simple, profound, and extremely difficult to sustain. It is to love God in all creation and in its every part, our better-self included.

Beside all the rich Palliative pastoral care the church promotes, it is vital that we also follow the Prophetic call for a genuine and lasting Structural Curative. That can only be by redesigning the structures of society from scratch, to lead to justice, and thence to peace. 

That must mean a reawakening to, and changing of three fundamental and deeply encultured fault lines:-

1.      The restructuring of the monetary system to end centuries of exponential exploitation, usury.

2.      The recognition that we are stewards, not owners, of creation by creating land value tax as the basic balancing factor of our economic lives. 

3.      The ending of the institutional rigidity of power over others, which thwarts the dignity of co-operative sharing of all our appropriate skills and tasks for the Common Good. 

Sincerely

Peter Challen

Your Yes or No please. Peter