Real or fiction, athletes & shoe company’s get rich based on the almost slave-like wages received by the kids who make these over-priced, highly hyped SHOES. But it’s buy them, or some other 3rd World product, or go bare foot. Where can one buy American made shoes? What American would work for three times the wages those 3rd world country kids earn?
Some of the newer congregations of the 20’s – 40’s age group have shoe boxes on prayer tables around the sanctuary/worship room & that is where & how the service is ended, in prayer with the opportunity to give, or not to give, as one is led.
Nuclear energy is the dirtiest fuel for the next thousand years, at least.