This sermon trilogy opens one hundred and four years ago, when eight Chicago White Sox players were permanently banned from baseball for desecrating the sport’s sacred code: they bet on the game. More accurately, they received payoffs to throw the 1919 World Series, allowing the gambling syndicate to profit. The incident cast a stain on the good name of baseball – and threatened to be the achilles heel of sports integrity. This service will pay tribute to what is beautiful and good about athletic competition as well as ask whether corruption within games of chance are making a mockery of games of sport. We will also ponder the adjacent corruption threatening society at large.

The Zoom link and Order of Service will be provided at mpuuc.org/zoom.

Topics: Re-membering