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Nike’s Token Equality: New Campaign Masks the Truth About Workers’ Rights

By Gerald J. Beyer

…Dorothy Day, The Solidarność movement in Poland and countless others to struggle for “bread and freedom.” Building on Pope Leo’s defense of workers in the late nineteenth century, Pope John Paul II argued in his 1981 encyclical on human labor that all workers have the right to work, a just wage, form unions and strike, a safe working environment, parental leave and unemployment insurance. More recently Pope Francis declared that the denial of wor…

Faith for Fuck-Ups? A New Book Explores a Broader Vision for Christianity

By Jason J. Stellman

…e. What if, instead of starting in the clouds with a bunch of esoteric, lofty propositions about some God way up in heaven, we begin on the ground, in the trenches, amid the dirt and grime of our everyday earthly lives? What if, rather than saying, “God is A, B, and C” and trusting the trickle-down sanctification of free-market theism to make us good people, we say, “I want to be X, Y, and Z,” and then seek out the spiritual principles that are mo…

Re-branding Is Not the Cure: Campolo & Claiborne Miss the Core Problem in Evangelicalism

By Peter Laarman

…hristians are “less than” in God’s eyes will necessarily be regarded as untrustworthy partners in the common struggle for a just society. 5. Campolo and Claiborne even get their history wrong. What they regard as the first successful re-branding of Bible-centered “orthodox” American Christianity in the early 20th century was in fact a complete failure, just as their proposed “Red Letter” re-branding will be this era. They cite Carl F.H. Henry as t…

The Black Church in Trump’s America: Refuge and Resistance

By Leslie D. Callahan

…bout incorporating theological and social analyses that white evangelicals market to Black churches. How detrimental and dangerous for us in the African American community to get our theology from people and institutions that were designed and pioneered with our oppression in mind. We would do well to remember that the authors and institutions that were on the wrong side of history when it came to our civil rights from slavery through Jim Crow wer…

When Being “Christian” Means Supporting Trump: An Argument For Hiding Your Faith

By Jonathan Malesic

…e Washington Post reported on October 9 that evangelical theologian Wayne Grudem had withdrawn his endorsement following the release of the tape of Trump bragging about sexual assault. The same article notes that Reno is, in his words, “beginning to regret signaling any public support, as you can imagine.” Back in the middle of the fourth century, when there really was a Roman emperor, the bishop of Jerusalem was wary of the new alliance between C…

Trump and Hindu Nationalism: A Match Made in Bollywood

By Andrea R. Jain

…cceeded thanks to the mutually beneficial relationship between nationalist politics and multinational corporate interests. Trump’s seal of approval for “Hindu” also applied to the Indian state: “I am a big fan of Hindu, and I am a big fan of India.” Mirroring Modi’s Hindutva government in which the Hindu is the Indian state—along with disgust for Muslims—has earned Trump the support of a niche constituency of American Hindus. And Trump’s reach int…

Anti-Gay Campaign In Indonesia Leads to Arrests; Mexico’s Religious Right Wars Against Secular State & LGBT Equality; Muslim Preacher Sparks Controversy in UK Re Death Penalty For Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r 7, and says the Guam Visitors Bureau is looking to market the island as a marriage destination for same-sex couples. United Nations: Anti-Gay Countries Block Mention of LGBT People in New Urban Agenda Belarus, Russia, and more than a dozen other countries reportedly blocked any mention of LGBT people in a document on a “New Urban Agenda” to address the challenges of rapidly growing cities….

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

By Michael Schulson

…ry becomes even murkier. Take Trijicon, for example, chosen from a Deseret News listicle, “20 companies with religious roots.” Deseret News included Trijicon in the list because the company “inscribed coded biblical references on high-powered rifle sights used by the U.S. military.” That’s it. Other than the founder’s purported religious beliefs, its inclusion is arbitrary. Why not include Ebay, whose founder Pierre Omidyar is a Buddhist, or any o…

Why Build a Mormon Complex in Philly?

By David Krueger

…adical work of architecture built in Philadelphia in a half-century.” Constructed in an area populated by some of the city’s most prominent cultural institutions, including the oldest natural history museum in the Americas, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Masonic Temple, and the Barnes Foundation, the edifice is highly visible from the I-676 expressway. Nationwide, adherents of this once-persecuted, minority religion are increasingly visible i…

Rubio’s Awkward Balancing Act Between Evangelicals and Catholics

By Patricia Miller

…ngelicals seem divided between the hard-core Christian nationalism of Ted Cruz and Rubio’s kinder, gentler approach that focuses on his “personal relationship with Jesus.” Writing in RNS, Jonathan Merritt says that while the ad is a “mishmash of religious beliefs and Bible verses,” he finds it “surprisingly cogent.” But the ad strikes me as an awkward—if wishful—amalgamation of evangelical, and Evangelical Catholic, inward-focused concern with fai…