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There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…sively detailed institutional history of the American Bible Society. Many readers, myself included, might be aware of the critical importance of the ABS in the nineteenth century, but probably thought it had trailed off into insignificance sometime in the twentieth. That’s far from the case. A major accomplishment of Fea’s work is to trace that entire history, and to do so not as an apologist but as a professional historian. The fact that Fea was…

Holey Holey Holey: The Problem with a New Study Valuing Religion at $1.2 Trillion Per Year

By Michael Schulson

…religious groups handle a lot of cash? That last one isn’t a secret: we already know that religious institutions take in large sums. The Grims are trying to turn a truism into a number. That’s always a delicate exercise. At best, figures can help us grapple with the experience of living in a mass society. But they can also produce a kind of false certainty that obscures more than it clarifies. So, does religious activity really account for 7% of t…

“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden

By Michael Schulson

…rence this past November, I expected him to talk a lot about the past. Instead, Eaton, a radiologist, focused on the future—specifically, a future world in which everyone can embrace Paleo principles. On further reflection, this makes sense. Like any popular diet, Paleo is as much a theory of human flourishing as it is a prescription for healthy eating. Yet, as theories of human flourishing go, Paleo is an ethical wreck. There’s basically no way f…

The “Religious Freedom” Issue That May Cost the Accused Boston Bomber His Life

By Anthony Santoro

…wever, a sizable number of potential jurors—those who follow the Church’s teaching on capital punishment—are likely to be excluded from jury service for their religious beliefs.1 This regularly happens in capital trials across the country, and it’s important to reflect on this case to highlight both the potential Establishment Clause problem and a remedy to that problem. The basics of criminal trials have been in the public consciousness lately, w…

‘Pure White’ Examines the White Supremacist Origins of Evangelical Purity Culture

By Emma Cieslik

…ame prominent, White Protestants were sort of anointed to be the national leaders in the United States. And as far as virtue goes, the greatest amount of virtue was on the shoulders of White women through the concept of sexual purity, which was part of Victorian gender ideologies. (And of course, it was an ideal, so it had nothing to do with White women’s actual experiences.) But it presumed that White women were dispassionate, were uninterested i…

Inspired by the Anti-Abortion Movement and QAnon, Anti-Trans Rhetoric is a Blatant Call for Violence

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…“Libs of Tiktok has opened my eyes on this.” The claims that have been spread about Boston Children’s Hospital and other clinics that care for trans children and teenagers by “Libs of TikTok,” run by right-wing activist Chaya Raichik, have been proven false time and time again—though, much like conspiracies about Covid or the 2020 election, the truth doesn’t affect the far-right’s hate. (Nor does the fact that an anonymous Twitter account that ex…

The World’s Most Influential Yoga Teacher is a Homophobic Right-Wing Activist

By Andrea Jain and Michael Schulson

…ervative religious nationalism. This is partly what makes the Indian yoga teacher and mega-celebrity Baba Ramdev such a fascinating figure. He is at once a source, reflection, and distortion of so much that feels familiar in American culture. Today, Ramdev is both a monastic and an entrepreneur. He is a proponent of all-natural products and a Hindu nationalist. He’s a TV star. He has a following of millions. He’s getting ready to open a university…

Survival of the CrossFittest: After a Schism Over Racism Can the Fitness Empire Shed its Culture of Whiteness?

By Cody Musselman

…ly twenty years fanatics of the rogue fitness brand ardently followed the teachings of CrossFit’s founder and CEO, Greg Glassman, growing the CrossFit community to nearly 15,000 gyms worldwide. Then, in an early June tweet, Glassman trivialized the pandemic and mocked the death of George Floyd, setting off a cascade of events that spelled the end for him and threatened the fitness empire he created. Key sponsorships were lost. Hundreds of gyms dis…

End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…use of vulgar terms like “milfs” and “BFC” (i.e., “Big Fucking Can”). Instead she argues that when the drinker takes a swig of Monster, the cross is turned upside-down and thereby made anti-Christian. “Bottoms up,” she says, mimicking the motion. Weick’s most striking piece of evidence is the large, stylized letter M, which she claims is not one letter but the Hebrew letter Vav repeated three times. In Hebrew, letters have numerical values. The f…

Jesus, Santa, and Now Sound of Music‘s Mother Abbess?

By Shannen Dee Williams

…say about the five-time Tony Award winner’s acting or vocal abilities—instead, their opposition was chiefly rooted in the portrayal of the often-overlooked Mother Abbess as a black woman. “We turned it off after we saw a negro nun,” tweeted dave44s. “No negro species in the Sound of Music.” (Note: dave44s’s sentiment was retweeted over 200 times before his Twitter account was suspended.) Mike Greenberg of the ESPN sports talk show Mike and Mike a…