Archive for January, 2012

  • Part 3- Fair Trade vs. Free Trade: A Christian Choice?

    By admin on January 30, 2012
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    Part 3 of 3… This is the third installment of Cowan’s three-part series. To Read Parts 1 and 2 Click HERE Certainly Christians should feel compelled to act to make things better, but one should not confuse the policy option one believes will bring about such a change with the compulsion one feels. Our motive to act may be good [...]
  • Part 2- Fair Trade vs. Free Trade: A Christian Choice?

    By admin on January 23, 2012
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    Part 2 of 3… This is the second installment of Cowan’s three-part series. To Read Part 1 Click HERE The scale of the fair trade market is tiny compared to the global economy. To which supporters might say at least it’s a start. Yes, it’s a start, but a bad start. Firstly, it favors only those few producers who are [...]
  • Part 1- Fair Trade vs. Free Trade: A Christian Choice?

    By admin on January 17, 2012
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    Part 1 of 3 Imagine a village, any village you like. Put some children in the village, playing. Then put them to do some commercial work. Place some billboards advertising consumer products around their school for a utility installation, funded by the advertising revenues. Sounds terrible? Do you bemoan the intrusion of big business in children’s lives? Is this the [...]