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Did Billy Graham Really Tell Romney He’d ‘Help’?

By Evan Derkacz

…omney, whom I considered a friend. I have followed Mitt Romney’s career in business, the Olympic Games, as governor of Massachusetts and, of course, as a candidate for president of the United States. What impresses me even more than Governor Romney’s successful career are his values and strong moral convictions. I appreciate his faithful commitment to his impressive family, particularly his wife Ann of 43 years and his five married sons. It was a…

KS Republican Repeats Obama/PP Conspiracy Theory

By Katie Toth

…y the “family values” crowd, is an ideological posture and not a historical fact, so a selective read of the data is just business as usual….

Is the Episcopal Church a Bain Capital Investor?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…copal Church” was an initial investor in Bain Capital: So we started a new business called Bain Capital. The only problem was, while WE believed in ourselves, nobody else did. We were young and had never done this before and we almost didn’t get off the ground. In those days, sometimes I wondered if I had made a really big mistake. I had thought about asking my church’s pension fund to invest, but I didn’t. I figured it was bad enough that I might…

Mitt Romney: Wooden Pastor or Real Boy?

By Mary Barker

…2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Our executive meetings followed a business format with charts and graphs that provided attendance statistics. The goal was to increase attendance; to move the line on the graph up. The strategy was to go name by name through the list of inactive members and research their particular interests. Active members would then be assigned to become their “friend,” calling them up and feigning interest in their hobb…

Burning Man: Fear of an Alternative Pagan Social Order

By John W. Morehead

…strong opposition from city leaders out of fear that “the city’s image and business projects would be tainted,” and of course religious groups, including conservative evangelicals, have had their issues as well. Although a few evangelical critics have written positive analyses of Burning Man, including an essay in Christian Research Journal by Steve Rabey, and a recent essay in Christianity Today by Phil Wyman, the gathering in Nevada’s Black Rock…

Romney: Your Data is Mine, But My Tithing is Secret!

By Sarah Posner

…tune 500 business world and dig deeper into available consumer data. . . . Businesses use those kinds of analytics firms to answer key questions for clients, such as where to build a retail store or where to mail pamphlets touting a new product. The analysis doesn’t directly bring in campaign contributions, but it generates the equivalent of sales leads for Romney’s campaign. The project relies upon a sophisticated analysis by powerful computers o…

Is the Ryan VP Pick Good for Mormonism?

By Joanna Brooks

…o-connect-with Church—which, by the way is really rich, as the coverage in Businessweek and elsewhere has highlighted. All of this stuff about his business past, his financial dealings, and his Church experience position him as a rich, white, awkward, secretive, paranoid candidate. It all fits. But Ryan doesn’t fit that at all. He’s a game-changer, an ideological figure out of a particular moment in the evolution of American conservatism. He has n…

Bruni on Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…cracy, and one in particular that protects religious freedom, it’s a risky business defining who are the “real” Christians, particularly when religion is being politicized. Michele Bachmann is wrong, politically speaking, not because she has a different view of Christianity than Frank Bruni. She’s wrong because she’s exploiting a particular conservative and literalist version of religion to undermine democratic principles and upend the constitutio…

The Redemptive Power of Jewish Self-Hatred

By Gordon Haber

…is twin sister. The Blood of the Walsungs is a nasty, fascinating piece of business. (I’d put it in the same category as T.S. Eliot’s “Burbank with a Beidecker, Bleistein with a Cigar”—masterworks of hateful snobbery.) But in its time, Mann’s theme was not so unusual. For German-speaking intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth century, the self-lacerating tendencies of assimilated Jews (real or imagined) was a serious topic of discussion,…

Is Romney Tax Matter a Religion Dog Whistle?

By Joanna Brooks

…ey to release undisclosed pre-2010 returns. And this comes on the heels of Businessweek’s attention-grabbing article that described the opacity of LDS Church finances and Church-owned business dealings, which have not been available to the public since the 1960s. It’s unfortunate that both stories conjure up one of the most unfriendly characterizations that has followed Mormons in American public life—that of secrecy and duplicity. It was this cha…