then an open-ended conversation on points prompted by the reading. On one occasion, we used the text that is our Gospel for today, the story of the owner of the vineyard promising to pay his workers what is fair. We had a lively discussion with active participation from the head of a large construction company, the president of a bank, and other veterans of many discussion of wage policy in the real world of business. When we met again one month later, the banker told the group, “You won’t believe