Hi folks,<br><br>Here is the link for the bishop's address to synod; <br>story and summary : <br><a href="http://www.sheffield.anglican.org/index.php/home/latest-news/29-latest-news/3863-our-economic-system--shaped-by-greed-and-everyone-for-themselves">http://www.sheffield.anglican.org/index.php/home/latest-news/29-latest-news/3863-our-economic-system--shaped-by-greed-and-everyone-for-themselves</a><br>
<br>full text<br><a href="http://www.sheffield.anglican.org/index.php/home/about-the-bishops/bishop-steven/recent-talksaddresses">http://www.sheffield.anglican.org/index.php/home/about-the-bishops/bishop-steven/recent-talksaddresses</a><br>
<br>dean's address<br><a href="http://www.sheffield.anglican.org/index.php/home/latest-news/29-latest-news/3864-statement-by-the-dean-of-sheffield-on-the-continuing-demonstration-by-occupy-sheffield-in-the-cathedral-forecourt-november-2011">http://www.sheffield.anglican.org/index.php/home/latest-news/29-latest-news/3864-statement-by-the-dean-of-sheffield-on-the-continuing-demonstration-by-occupy-sheffield-in-the-cathedral-forecourt-november-2011</a><br>
<br>Blessings,<br>Deacon Dave<br><br>========================<br><br><p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);"><strong>There is an alternative</strong></p>

<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);"><strong>-Bishop of Sheffield in major speech today</strong></p>
<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);">The
 Bishop of Sheffield, Dr Steven Croft, said this weekend that the 
Church’s voice needed to be heard as the economic crisis continues and 
deepens.</p>



<p> </p>
<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);">Speaking
 in Doncaster at a meeting of the Sheffield Diocesan Synod on Saturday 
(19 November) Dr Croft said: “The Church has a vital contribution to 
make to this debate,”  before outlining how key themes of justice and 
right priorities have been “forgotten in society at large.”</p>
<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);"> </p>
<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);">Dr
 Croft was clear: “We need to carry once again a message of repentance 
and faith.  We are calling for repentance from greed; from foolishness; 
from indifference to the poor; from carelessness with resources.</p>
<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);"> </p>
<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);">“The
 way in which society can be renewed now as in previous generations is 
through a rediscovery of Christian faith and values which can then 
inform the change we need to make.”</p>
<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);"> </p>
<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);">Earlier
 in the morning the Dean of Sheffield, Peter Bradley, had explained some
 of the background and implications of the Occupy camp outside Sheffield
 Cathedral.</p>
<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);"> </p>
<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);">Dr
 Croft added his voice to that debate in saying: “We are seeing the 
beginnings of a popular movement of protest in the Occupy movement 
around the world and outside our own Cathedral.  It is a movement which 
is asking questions and articulating a sense that something is wrong 
rather than providing answers. We may want to agree with the questions 
which are being raised whilst disagreeing with the methods of the 
protestors in raising them.”</p>
<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);"> </p>
<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);">The
 Bishop said that there needed to be an end to endemic greed and a 
culture of selfishness: “Our economic system has been shaped by the 
ethics of greed and everyone for themselves.  But that this economic 
system contains the seeds of its own destruction.  Greed has led to 
deregulation in the interests of profit.  Deregulation and a completely 
free market leads to massive borrowing and greater risk.  Spiralling 
debt leads in turn to the collapse of the system.”</p>
<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);"> </p><br><br><br><br><br>