Deeper shade of grey | enviro-guilt

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hen I read some books they make me feel so guilty; I’ve got through the stage where I beat myself up because my prayer life isn’t as spectacular as Paul Yongi Cho; that my sense of holiness falls so short of Brengle; that my community justice isn’t as intense as Jim Wallis.

However there seems to be a new brand of Christian book that needs a warning on the cover. If you are not taking the environment as seriously as the re-cycled pages of the book you are reading - be ready to be feel pretty miserable by the end. That is unless, of course, you have already converted your car to run on cooking oil. That you have re-plumbed your water so that you re-cycle your shower water to flush your toilet to then water your organic tomatoes!

Shane Claiborne seems to lead the way and his message is definitely one worth listening to and being challenged by. So when I met him the other week when I was taking one of my daughters Eryn to school, was I pleased we were on our bikes!? I was introduced to him while he was waiting for a bus to take him to the Faithworks conference - that would be a fossil-fuel powered bus - I felt pretty smug with my non-fossil fuel form of transport, that not only was second hand, but also borrowed.

Deeper shade of grey appears every Wednesday on theRubicon. Find past posts and a bio of Capt. Gordon Cotterill here.

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