Live Chastely...

I agree with James Preece that we've pretty much covered the Live Simply campaign... and anyway, if the Bishops of England & Wales are going to put out such crassly patronising material for their "Yoof" activities (stuff that no self-respecting teenager would touch with a ten-foot barge pole) then I think it's time to get them to take a reality check...

...the government are already doing a great PR/brainwashing job on sustainable development (it's in the (compulsory) GCSE Science curriculum), recycling (it's in the (compulsory) GCSE Science curriculum) pollution (it's in the (compulsory) GCSE Science curriculum) and energy-saving suggestions (I'll give you three guesses, but you'll probably only need one of them...) They also get a lot of this stuff from TV programmes, the internet, and magazines... school PSHE classes also cover quite a bit of this stuff too...

What the young people of today need to hear when they go to church is not more of the same. They need encouragement to live the Christian way of life in every way, and that includes morality.  So the Bishops ought to concentrate on promoting the message of Humanae vitae, which, after 40 years, is being shown to be uncommonly prophetic.

Go over to the site, and register for the Live Chastely promise.  BTW, at the risk of stating the blindingly obvious, (as a teacher, I'm always conscious of the fact that "the obvious" is often not that obvious to everyone) living chastely is not the same as being celibate.  If you're married, then living chastely means not going to bed with anyone other than your spouse.