[OSList] good questions

[Brett Barndt via OSList]

My favorite question is what role have we all played in creating this
crisis?

i.e. sitting by while funding from global oil industry partners outside our
national judicial systems funded religious extremism in many countries now
experiencing turmoil over silent decades, our own govts created instability
through financial support of abusive dictatorships, wars, and occupation,
and arms were transported into Syria over supposedly NATO controlled
borders under various guises, etc. over several years while our mainstream
media and elected officials failed to tell us loud and clear, but while
Syrian exiles were trying to sound that alarm, etc.

How can our new knowledge about all these connections and our own part in
it give us a sense of power and commitment to actually change things using
our democratic or other  social institutions like our faith communities now
that we do know?

When people of faith and ethical motivation engage themselves and take
responsibility for changing things, the elected and other institutions
implicated in these crises will see permanent and deep reform. Not before.

Good luck. Yours is a very worthwhile project!
On Nov 18, 2015 9:05 AM, "Hege Steinsland via OSList" <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Can I ask for input on this…
>
> What are the good questions for a community or a Church to ask oneself in
> todays refugee- situation.
> Questions that can generate insight, energy and hope…
>
> I wonder…
>
> Hege
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