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The Invention of a Corporate Christian America

By Andrew Aghapour

…ave sermons on their themes, etc. Tell me more about this alliance between business leaders and Christian groups. Why did American industrialists need religion on their side? During the Depression, business leaders were on the defensive. The public blamed them for the Great Crash and the New Deal had constructed a new regulatory state and empowered labor unions, two developments that corporate America readily resented. Business leaders quickly res…

Court Strikes Down Pennsylvania Law Forbidding “Blasphemous” Business Names

By Lauri Lebo

…of George Kalman, a Pennsylvania filmmaker whose application to register a business name “I Choose Hell Productions LLC” was turned down by state regulators. According to a news release from the Pennsylvania ACLU (I am a board member of a local chapter) the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found that the statute violated the First Amendment prohibition on establishment of religion and promoted only Christian religious vie…

Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.

By Joanna Brooks

…University and I fell in love with teaching. Suffolk was an iconic working-class university—in the 1960s that meant working-class first-generation-college white immigrant families. I had young men negotiating grades with me because if they didn’t get a C, they’d get drafted. I investigated how people avoided the draft and became very aware of class divisions in Boston and America at large. The war really turned me into a social critic, a thinker,…

The Sanders Insurgency: A Return to the “Secular Sacred”?

By Peter Laarman

…is dream of deliverance, this longing for the overthrow of a predatory overclass, was deep and broad enough to unite labor radicals like Hillman and upper middle class reformers like Jane Addams. It was a dream heartily embraced by a significant cohort of “Social Gospel” leaders (e.g., Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and George D. Herron) who were appalled by what they regarded as the blasphemous identification of most other church leade…

Coming Out on a Christian Campus, Then and Now

By Ed Madden

…ure. Another essay, entitled appropriately “Toxic Teachings,” interrogates class notes from a course on Christian Home, notes that repeat outdated psychological theories about distant fathers and cross-gender identifications and that offer tips on how to bring your kids up straight. (I recall my own Christian Home class. I still have the textbook with its litany of gender stereotypes. I remember the professor split up the boys and girls one week t…

Blame Series Bonus: How Federal Policy Created America’s Fergusons

By Andrew Aghapour

…t’s a home price that was affordable with an FHA or VA mortgage to working class families, black or white. Many black families could have afforded those homes in the late 1940s and 1950s, but they were prohibited from purchasing them by FHA policy. Today, those homes sell for $500,000 or $600,000. We now have a law, the Fair Housing Act, which says that African Americans are free to live anywhere they want. They can live in Levittown, they can liv…

Milquetoast Liberal Religion Won’t Challenge Conservative Values: A History Lesson

By Sheila D. Collins

…arge part of the Great Plains, restored wildlife and built a system of over 800 state and county parks. They electrified an entire region of the country, bringing what had been America’s “Third World” up to 20th century standards. They created works of art, gave concerts, set up theaters throughout the country, ran nursery schools, served over 1.2 billion school lunches to needy children, gave immunizations, taught illiterate adults to read and wr…

Why #FreeBritney is an #Exvangelical Cause

By R.L. Stollar

…ne angle. While several journalists have noted the role of Spears’s former business manager, Lou Taylor, in Spears’s conservatorship, Taylor deserves greater scrutiny. In Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino’s New Yorker piece on Spears’s conservatorship, for example, they include a single throwaway line about Taylor’s religious beliefs: “Jamie had become close to Lou Taylor, a business manager who shares the Spears family’s Christian faith and whose hu…

Khalifah: We Really Do Have Control Over Our Own Destiny

By Amina Wadud

…tyle things into place, as we all know, are good for us anyway. Before the class was over, we had to make an “action plan” for the next week: something we would do between this class and the next weigh-in the following week. We broke into groups of two and were supposed to make sure that our partners were specific: when, how much, how many, and what ever we chose. I had the guy who had lost 6 pounds by eating lunch and that was his goal again for…

UPDATED: The Coup That Never Ends: ‘Whitemanism’ and the Perils of a Flimsy Liberalism

By Peter Laarman

…, and environmental regulation to a minimum? Ensuring white power ensures corporate power. There’s no mischaracterization. 6. Back to the path forward for progressives. Nobody I know who is serious about racial justice ignores for one minute the role of class. Sadly, the paladins of waging class struggle often won’t reciprocate and acknowledge the role of race. And until they do, the idea of a winning class struggle will remain what it’s always be…