{"id":381,"date":"2014-03-31T22:11:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T22:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/missionwork\/?p=199"},"modified":"2014-03-31T22:11:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T22:11:34","slug":"a-chicago-chicken-shops-statement-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/missionwork\/2014\/03\/a-chicago-chicken-shops-statement-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chicago chicken shop’s statement of faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>By Joseph Sunde<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Leghorn Chicken<\/a>, a \u201csocially conscious chicken shop\u201d in Chicago, makes it quite clear that they intend to be,\u00a0as one might put it<\/a>, a\u00a0culture-making enterprise<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Behold their\u00a0statement of faith<\/a>\u00a0(hat tip<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to Jeremy Mann for pointing it out).<\/p>\n

Such an attitude, worldview, and moral orientation isn\u2019t all that appealing to someone such as myself, particularly when paired with the lovely\u00a0parental advisory sign<\/a>\u00a0located at the counter. Yet I feel no inclination to enlist the muscle of the magistrates to manipulate them toward watering things down. I can consume their chicken blindly (not advisable), take my business elsewhere, or start a delicious chicken shop of my own.<\/p>\n

Respond to the market signal with your own market signal. Heed your\u00a0conscience<\/a>.\u00a0Shape and create the culture. Bear witness to the Truth. Etc.<\/p>\n

Yet for those like\u00a0Kirsten Powers<\/a>, these folks should simply subdue their strident beliefs and get back to plain-old materialistic business. \u201cMost people just want to eat a chicken sandwich,\u201d\u00a0she might say<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s not clear why some chicken shops are so confused about their role here.\u201d Or,\u00a0as Andy Stanley might put it<\/a>, \u201cleave gay rights out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

I bring this up simply to re-affirm a\u00a0point I\u2019ve already made<\/a>: businesses are culture-making enterprises, whether\u00a0they<\/em>\u00a0or we<\/em>\u00a0like it or not. When we detest or disagree with particular cultural outputs of particular cultural enterprises, we should respond with healthy Christian output, not systemic strong-arming and stifling.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This means maximizing the freedom to shape culture and maximizing it for all. That includes religious freedom for the baker, the florist, and the photographer, just as it includes the ramblings of a supposedly a-religious chicken shop.<\/p>\n

From Acton PowerBlog<\/a>. Images: Leghorn Chicken \u00a0and Jennifer Woodruff Tait.<\/p>\n

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