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Hitchens Debates Conservative Evangelical: Nothing Happens

By Eric Reitan

…of “rebuttals” they’re supposed to use in response to the various reasons customers might offer for not buying a product. For the salesperson armed with this flexible script, the human vulnerability of the single mother (one who expresses concern both for her children’s safety and for her precarious financial situation, for example) becomes a trigger for a set of prepared arguments that will ultimately result in a payment plan for a state-of-the-…

A Libertarian Split Over the Hitching Post Case

By Sarah Posner

…he city has not threatened the Knapps with arrest or imprisonment, adding “Americans United has been clear all along: No church can be compelled to offer religious services to same-sex couples. The First Amendment protects against that.” But because the Hitching Post is a for-profit business, it is not entitled to the religious exemption granted under the local anti-discrimination law. Libertarians, while either agnostic on or for marriage equalit…

Beliefnet Readers: Are You Really Offended by the Word “Feminism”?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…marketing analyst would devote attention to the preferences of a company’s customer base, and try to gather data on said preferences. It’s not surprising that a writer, even in these lean days, would refuse a regular writing gig which required her to adopt a very different voice than the one she’d spent years crafting. What does surprise me is this: Evidently a non-trivial number of readers of Beliefnet out there are offended by the word feminist….

The Vampire Who Beat Wells Fargo

By Joseph Laycock

…ow to sue in small claims court. So many companies have made it clear that customer service is not a priority for them. Americans need to force them to rethink that position.” The fictional vampires of contemporary “paranormal romance” frequently appear threatening at first, but inevitably end up using their powers to protect mortals from other, more evil vampires. Self-identified, real-world vampires (strange as they might seem) may currently be…

The Theological Hijacking of Religious “Freedom”

By Timothy K. Snyder

…e problem with this view? The problem is not so much that there are a good number of Americans who have consulted their theological traditions and decided that it would be against their personal conscience to affirm same sex marriage. The problem is that in the recent efforts of many religious Americans, the law is being used to legislate a vision of freedom that defines religious freedom as “freedom from.” Unlike the early American Baptists, who…

Advice from a Disaster Pastor: Open Your Wallet, Not Your Closet

By Carlos Wilton

…delivering it to Chico: who then turns around and uses it to scam the next customer. How many of our charitable contributions are like that? Even after we’ve handed over the money, there’s a part of us that still wants to give a yank on the line. ___ The church I serve is located near ground zero for Hurricane Sandy. Nearly five years ago, half our town was flooded, upending our lives and displacing many of our church families. It’s taken us years…

Is America Willing to Be Freed from Its Demons?

By Willie James Jennings

…ruct neighborhoods, carve up communities, and channel resources, goods and services along racial lines. Such barriers feed our fears and teach us to live comfortably in the racial lies that have guided the thinking of so many Americans for centuries. We have learned to structure our fear geographically and unleash it through police violence set up to protect our spaces. Land developers, civil engineers, city planners, real estate agencies, builder…

Lincoln, Clinton, and Trump: From Strategy to Spin to Straight-Up Bullshit

By Martin Jay

…incoln’s reputation as a person of absolute integrity has been a staple of American political culture for many generations. Biographers have confirmed that Lincoln was, by and large, an exceptionally honest person. In one familiar tale, which was included in Horatio Alger’s 1883 semi-fictionalized biography Abraham Lincoln: The Backwoods Boy, Lincoln walked a long way to return a petty sum to a customer who had been inadvertently defrauded in a st…

The C Word

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…k satisfaction, personal growth and development, management effectiveness, customer/supporter satisfaction, teamwork, communications and pay and benefits.” The list that came out show organizations with a lot in common – they are mainly non-profit outfits, churches, schools, and colleges. Most of them require applicants for employment to agree with a specific statement of faith to work there. Take the Alliance Defense Fund for example. Before you…

Space X and the Photo-Op: Trump’s Use of the Bible Was Just the Latest in a Series of Christian Nationalist Messages

By Tony Keddie

…inance” across “a new magnificent frontier.” It’s only because of “private American companies” and “fierce competitors” like Elon Musk, Trump crowed, that Americans have been able to “blaze a trail … into the heavens.” So much of Trump’s space talk smacks of nineteenth-century colonial rhetoric that cast white men as superior to Native Americans and African slaves. “The innate human desire to explore and innovate is what propels the engines of pro…