Thou shalt help to save the planet, Mothers' Union tells its 3.6m flock
By Ruth Gledhill and Alan Hamilton

Leaders issue new commandments on how to fight poverty and climate change

HONOUR thy father and thy Mothers’ Union, and the meek may yet inherit some kind of Earth.
Thou shalt abhor Kenyan green beans, nor shall ye drive to the shops when you can get the bus. Thou shalt turn thy central heating down and thy television off at night, and shouldst thou fly thou shalt plant a tree of penitence to offset thy carbon emissions. Thereby might the planet be saved.

The Mothers’ Union, a powerful Christian pressure group of 3.6 million members within the worldwide Anglican Communion, has issued its own Ten Commandments in a new drive to help the world’s poor and to fight against climate change. It takes as its text the Old Testament prophet Micah, who urged the Israelites to “act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with your God”.

Instead of tablets of stone the union, founded in 1876, with 122,000 members in the UK, and not to be confused with the Women’s Institute, has produced a campaign booklet, Fair Enough?, which lists ten small but effective ways in which members can mother the Earth back to good health. the rest