In connection with the Trafalgar Square rally, this was an interesting idea.

It still bothers me that so much of this discussion is simply a rehashing of the mainstream political-scientific debate. The debate is very important, and there’s every reason for the church to participate in it. But where is the prophetic stance that demonstrates a right relation to the environment? Is the church really only called to run a sort of sacred sideshow to the main event? Shouldn’t our primary focus be on acting out the full scope of renewed creation? Isn’t there a need for theatre, drama, a prophetic embodiment of hope? How do we manifest the creativity of God? How would we project that on to the exterior of our public institutions?

I would suggest that the issue for the church is not so much statistics as symbolics.

I right this having spent much of the day in the dwindling rainforests of Borneo. It’s very sad.

So Peter, how was the rally?