I spent the weekend building a rabbit hutch, rock climbing, playing chess and having fun with/dealing with (!) all the kids from the neighbourhood who hang out at our place so I’ve yet had a chance to respond.

I too have wept with people in prayer damaged my multiple circumstances that would make someone get caught up in prostitution. I think we need to do all we can to support each other on the exodus journey from all that reduces God’s good creation (including humans) to a ‘mere commodity’ be it prostitution, poverty, war, bad stewardship of the land, child slavery (the list goes on). So to answer your question, I support anything that will work to further protect sex workers from exploitation and efforts to further prevent children being involved in prostitution. But more than that I pray the we would become communities of ‘grace activists’ where we can support people in finding work that reduces the commodification of life. Rather than ‘distant moralising’ or telling other people how they should live, I pray our communities would have the courage to embody God’s ‘costly compassion’ and share in peoples sufferings, in Christ’s sufferings.

I’ll be happy to pray for your friend it sounds like she’s doing fantastic work. I’d like to hear why she’s against the bill and I know someone who’s working on it, maybe we could put them together. Maybe you and I can help facilitate that. I must admit I have only read parts of the Bill.

Grace and peace for the transformation of creation,
jarrod

Good to have a way of staying more in touch.

Have you thought about twitter? Mine is

http://twitter.com/montgorp

Russel

Certainly your statement to Grendel about Christians drinking only fair-trade coffee and encouraging others to do the same speaks to your lack of concern at being labeled a “wowser”. What is your opinion on WA’s proposed Prostitution Reform Bill (Please pray for Linda Watson of “Linda’s House of Hope” (a mission that ministers to women who want to leave the prostitution business)who has been harassed on the phone and late night outside her home for lobbying against this bill) that will fully legalise brothels in WA and WA’s Human Reproductive Technology Bill that will grant licenses to any scientist to create and experiment on human embryos? What will be the consequences on our neighbourhoods and what course of action should we take, if any?

Peter Singer’s new book “The Ethics of What We Eat” is excellent on this subject. We go about ethics very differently (!) but in this book he’s brill. (you’ll be pleased to know he touches on coffee!)

Night mate.