Year: 2013

Fundamentalism enters the church of baseball

… when Major League Baseball announced last week that it was planning to introduce instant replay to games, thereby allowing umpires to stop play after a difficult call and watch the whole thing again in slow-motion, all I could think, with a tinge of sadness, was that a new, especially virulent kind of fundamentalism had arrived in America’s First Church.

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On Labor Day, a sign of hope for working Americans?

Companies have been frantically painting themselves green to attract environmentally conscious customers. Employers might discover, to paraphrase the old McDonald’s slogan, that their workers deserve a break today if consumers (who are also workers themselves) started pressuring them to be more employee-friendly.

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Conflicting Testimony

Monday, September 2, 2013 — Week of Proper 17, Year One [Go to Mission St Clare for an online version of the Daily Office including

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