Religion Dispatches
…ng line of theological interventions in the most pressing moral problems of each successive generation. While Cox’s aim is certainly true, The Market as God misses the target….
Read More…rom the market, there is no freedom to be anything but at the mercy of the market. It’s almost impossible to be entirely free of the market these days, but it is possible, and politically feasible, to decouple social and market status. 2) The reason our political leaders can’t or won’t make the effort to think outside the market idolatry isn’t that they’re stupid or politically blind or sinful or corrupt or what-have-you, though they display all t…
Read More…rms declined, and continued to staff its booth at the East Lansing Farmers Market. Between the end of the 2016 farmers market season and the beginning of the 2017 season, the East Lansing Farmers Market updated its own vendor policies, adding a provision that stated vendors must comply with East Lansing’s non-discrimination ordinance. To submit an application, vendors had to agree to adhere to this policy not only while at the farmers market, but…
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…cal economy that privileges those most disadvantaged by the current global market structure, those least able to speak and act against its outrages. This means not merely anteing up a share of personal or organizational wealth to support even the most worthy causes, but risking the gem of social capital in Bourdieu’s conception of the term—status—to critique, challenge, and, in the end, redeem the global market economy so that it benefits all. My…
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…Jews from Babylonian exile to return and rebuild the Temple. Some of them read Trump in the apocalyptic frame that arose in 20th century American Protestantism in which a battle with evil forces is a sign of the end-times before Jesus’ return. “I know that Donald Trump is not a Christian,” the preacher and editor of End Times News Geoffrey Grider declared, but “God is preparing to shake the nations of the world and I believe he is going to use Do…
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…Shortly after Reza Aslan and Hasan Minhaj’s, “An Open Letter to American Muslims,” was first published on RD this past Tuesday, it became clear that it had launched a critical discussion across the United States. But now, as the subject of BBC’s “World Have Your Say” program (sorry, programme), the letter has jumped our nation’s borders and launched the discussion across the world:…
Read More…Associate Editor Hussein Rashid appeared on the BBC show Beyond Belief on Oct. 4, 2010, to discuss the history and place of Islam in America. Other panelists include Robert Salaam of The American Muslim and Daniel Pipes. About half the show focuses on the Park51 controversy and responding to Pam Gellar’s incitement against New Yorkers’ right to self-determination. …
Read More…targeted if ISIS does make a concerted attack on Lebanon. A gay man in Beirut told Gay Star News, “From my point of view, once ISIS crosses the borders, I will be taking the first plane to Istanbul. Everybody will try to leave. But a lot of the gay community can’t afford it. Once they are here we will be one of the targets because gay people are evil for them, so we should be killed. We have a lot of dating applications and websites so I think it…
Read More…on. I’ve created my own tradition. In my family, we have a fresh, chopped fruit salad. I admit, there is something extra special about handling the fruit while fasting. All that slicing and dicing into tiny bite-size pieces is almost as delicious as the first bite after the fasting day is over. Sometimes when I break fast somewhere else, I feel like something is missing; even if the dates are there to simulate uniformity. Now these small variants…
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…dealing with the Suhartos of the world would be problematic. If they were truly, truly, political (as they seem to behave) then it would be a matter of just backing and creating politicians, right? But its more like a movement—and this movement is about certainty. Certainty means that Jesus has put the right people in charge, and submission and assistance to them will ensure that God’s Kingdom will eventually come. It is the certainty that America…
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