Making those who are invisible visible
January 5, 2014
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Artist Ramiro Gomez takes images of the good life, and then sketches in the invisible domestic workers who make the good life possible. Recently he
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Alert to churches: unemployment benefits to expire
December 28, 2013
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A not very happy New Year for many in the U.S. Congress left town to celebrate the holidays and left millions of Americans holding the
Commemorating the homeless dead
December 21, 2013
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A number of Episcopal churches participated in services memorializing people who died homeless this year. It isn’t clear to me whether these services are coordinated
We are not all in this together. Is that even possible?
December 17, 2013
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The economic interests of the rich and the rest are at odds, writes Shamus Khan in an op-ed for The New York Times. And since
How should the church respond to Black Friday: a social media conversation
December 2, 2013
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Perhaps it indicates the shallow nature of my faith, but the best ethical reflection I’ve been part of in the last two years have been
Thou shalt not kill: the Pope on the economy
November 26, 2013
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“Just as the commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill’ sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say ‘thou shalt not’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills,” Francis wrote in the document issued on Tuesday.
Truth will out
October 6, 2013
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By the time I had signed for my check and walked off, I made a decision to lie about something. I decided that if asked what I do, I would lie and say that I was “a nonessential government employee.” This, I reasoned, would have the double benefit of bringing both awareness of a much larger issue and and keeping me from hearing an hour-long confession I was not prepared to hear.
On Labor Day, a sign of hope for working Americans?
September 2, 2013
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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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