science museum and politics
The Science Museum is a national institution. I love it. It's a great place to learn things, and accessible for kids and adults alike.
Now, any intelligent person knows that it's impossible to present facts without also presenting some kind of ideology or narrative or belief. But the Science Museum doesn't usually stick its nose directly into politics.
The current exhibition on climate change, though, is directly linked to Copenhagen. What do you think? Should a museum be running a political campaign?
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
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Thanks for this Maggi, although from my recent experience the struggle for women starts way back as ordinands.
Anyway, I’ll start a lobby group “Maggi for bishop” and we’ll get things changed!
Maggi – as someone who in her ministry might well meet a young women whose life has been touched by Christ and who senses within her a vocation to ministry, to making the love of Christ known to others, to speaking of God’s kingdom…..
could you really encourage such a young woman to follow this vocation if it meant ministry within the Anglican church which still thinks it is Ok to talk about protecting men and others from the ministry of a woman; which assumes that there is nothing wrong with allowing others to act as though she doesn’t exist; to blame her and her ordination for *forcing them*(sic) from *their* church (sic).
It’s not going to get better if this sort of sacramental apartheid is legitimised. I weep for women with a call to priesthood now as much as I wept for them 30 years ago…. or maybe more. At least there was hope then…
This reminds me of the question (ever ongoing)of should the Church engage in politics?, maybe that’s for another time.
I guess the Science Museum running a theme on climate change fits with what it stands for and climate change is about science.
I always become a little nervous though when people expand on their reletivity.
As a straight answer, I guess it gives me no probelm as such if handled correctly.
On this issue? Absolutely. It’s too important not to….