Getting back to cricket, I can remember Brian Johnston (commentator on the radio, who seemed rather uncomfortable with the idea of playing on Sunday) saying "If you've been to church, I hope you had a good sermon"
I’m not certain (it was a very long time ago) but when the Sunday League started in England and Wales, Johnners wasn’t a commentator. That could have led to him being used less for Test matches too.
I do know that Vic Pollard of New Zealand retired from Test cricket when asked to play on a Sunday, and Euan Murray, the Scotland prop forward and Michael Jones, the All Blacks flanker would not play on Sunday
When I worked in retail, I actively preferred working on weekends so that I could take my days off midweek - shopping areas in the UK tend to be busy on Sundays, so I preferred to go into town when it was quieter. Lots of people who work on Sundays aren't bothered by having to do so.
When I did my internship, it was in a town that was heavily conservative Reformed. I often liked to take bicycle rides on Sunday afternoon, biking to nearby communities and back. The Reformed people were very critical of the trips. Kept doing it though.
I really was bothered when our library started opening on a Sunday. I told my manager that I didn’t want to work on Sundays but she just told me to look for another job where I didn’t have to. I stayed though, it was my career after all. After a couple of years we went back to closing on Sundays as we weren’t busy enough.
I really was bothered when our library started opening on a Sunday. I told my manager that I didn’t want to work on Sundays but she just told me to look for another job where I didn’t have to. I stayed though, it was my career after all. After a couple of years we went back to closing on Sundays as we weren’t busy enough.
Obviously in this specific case it wasn't busy enough to stay open on Sundays, but surely as a librarian you would want a library to be more available for users - not less? For some people, Sunday may be the only day they have free to visit the library.
Speaking in general, I think it's one thing to have your (general you) own personal or church-wide standards for Sundays but quite another to expect strangers (especially non-Christians) to abide by your own personal beliefs on Sunday opening hours etc.
... though if you have strongly held personal religious standards that include you personally not working on Sundays, and the library can't open Sunday without you compromising those views, then the library can hire someone else! I mean, it's by no means necessary for the worker to automatically knuckle under, particularly when it isn't a case of life or death.
I suppose i ought to declare myself. As a very young adult Christian from an anti-Christian family, there was no way I was going to give up Sunday morning worship for my bookstore job. I told my boss I was available any time but then, and they found a way to work it out. And if that meant I got more than the usual share of crappy shifts, well, I was okay with that. And they were too, I think, as it meant one person who would never bitch about them.
When I was a college student I had two part time jobs -- one as a church choir director, and one as a server in a breakfast & lunch restaurant. When a new manager was hired at the restaurant I was told that I'd have to start working there on Sunday mornings (prior to that I worked on Saturday mornings which was perfectly fine with the previous manager). I explained that my choir job required I be in church every Sunday. No matter. I was scheduled at the restaurant two Sundays later, and when I confirmed that I could not and would be at the restaurant that day, I was fired. 😎
I can remember the first time I hung out washing on a Sunday; I would have been in my early / mid 30s. I think there was a reason - one of my children had woken up ill early on Sunday morning and thrown up in bed, or something like that, creating an instant pile of laundry which I didn't want to leave in a festering heap until Monday.
Once I'd done it once, I didn't go back to "no laundry on the Sabbath" and now it wouldn't even cross my mind to avoid it.
I had a lovely, normally undemanding, elderly aunt who used to come and stay with us for three weeks every summer. It was noticeable that various house rules were relaxed on Sundays at her request, eg watching television, and were not put back in place after she had gone home.
Top marks to my parents for considering her well-being over their house rules.
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Shades of Chariots of Fire!
Obviously in this specific case it wasn't busy enough to stay open on Sundays, but surely as a librarian you would want a library to be more available for users - not less? For some people, Sunday may be the only day they have free to visit the library.
Speaking in general, I think it's one thing to have your (general you) own personal or church-wide standards for Sundays but quite another to expect strangers (especially non-Christians) to abide by your own personal beliefs on Sunday opening hours etc.
Once I'd done it once, I didn't go back to "no laundry on the Sabbath" and now it wouldn't even cross my mind to avoid it.
Top marks to my parents for considering her well-being over their house rules.
" Smiley face"