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Spinning But Not Religious: Inside the New Economy of Spiritual Fitness

By Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst

…e way. In the book you predict that “the body is only going to be a bigger business.” Are there downsides to commodifying fitness? Or will the relationship between bodies and business be mutually beneficial? I think the downsides come when people essentially go too far. When it not only becomes a life style but it turns into a little bit of an obsession. In my research I discovered people who were recovering alcoholics and addicts who stopped drin…

When ‘Church Business’ Yields a Real Page Turner

By Peter Laarman

I have to admit that Michelle Huneven’s new novel was almost too delicious for me, even more addictive than a box of chocolate truffles or a big bag of Cape Cod potato chips (with sea salt, naturally). I know too much about the book’s setting in Pasadena and the neighboring village of Altadena, where I lived the tiny bungalow life for ten happy years. I also know too much about the inner life of congregations. And I recently soaked up more than I…

The Uncertain Post-Obergefell World of Religious Exemptions

By Sarah Posner

…n of religious liberty and free speech rights–in other words, painting the business owners as the victims–the Commissioner, Brad Avakian, summarily dispatched with that claim in his opinion. The Oregon public accommodations law, which prohibits discrimination against customers based on, among other things, sexual orientation, does not violate the free exercise or free speech rights of business owners, Avakian wrote. He cited the United States Supr…

Markets and Morality: Faith-Based Investment Group Profiles Polluters

By Frederick Clarkson

…alent to removing 12,000 cars from US roadways. When the Prophetic is Good Business “Looking a little further out on the horizon,” Laura Berry says, “and we think that is what faith-based investors are particularly good at… it is possible to envision new ways to incorporate environmental concerns via new ‘valuation models’—such as the Trucost data—for corporations and investors.” These she says, are key to changing how we think about business deci…

RDPulpit: You Lost the Debate

By Mary E. Hunt

…es. At a time in world history when space travel is practically economy or business class, and the Internet allows instant communication, there is something rather quaint, not to mention morally reprehensible, about sending troops anywhere. Don’t people see how ridiculous it is to blow up one another’s children? We need a good open forum on the nature of patriotism, how everyone can give to and receive from their country, not another rehearsal of…

Beck’s Distortions Of It’s A Wonderful Life Mirror His Distortions Of Current Events

By Lauri Lebo

…during the Depression the most hissable villains were grasping bankers and businessmen. From a 1947 FBI internal memo: With regard to the picture “It’s a Wonderful Life”, [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a “scrooge-type” so that he would be the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a common trick used by Communists. In…

How Not to Rescue Muslim Women

By Shabana Mir

…t and delight. When a young American calls for non-interference in “their” business because “they” are different, I am relieved and disturbed. I contrast the non-interfering liberal with the large young Midwestern ex-GI in my class years ago: “Saddam is the Antichrist, and we’ve got to go in and fight him,” he told me solemnly. So I like the tune of non-interference. A little. In relative terms. But the background harmony assumed total difference….

Resisting the “New Normal” of Parasitic Capitalism in the Two Americas: The Religious Imperative

By Peter Laarman

…as the Republicans are? This is moral insanity. Pour shame on the rentier class: This is harder, but our class criminals like to be able to hide out. Religious leaders who hunger for justice should steel themselves to track them down, confront them, and let them answer for themselves. This is not about attacking wealth per se but about challenging irresponsible wealth that has no trace of neighborliness in it. Religious leaders could take some ti…

Creationism Makes Its Mark

By Lauri Lebo

…st Amendment’s Establishment Clause by permitting religion to be taught in class, and for failing to protect their son. Federal law allows such civil liberties cases to be filed anonymously. Freshwater has filed a countersuit, citing defamation of character. In July, the school board suspended Freshwater without pay based on the investigatory report, saying he had misused the electrical device, taught religion in his science class, and failed to f…

Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent

By Lucia Hulsether

…e grandson that it is raining in Delhi, to tracking the arrival of Yusuf’s flight from Pakistan—is premised on Google’s unbounded access to data. Google has so much information, that it almost seems to read the granddaughter’s mind. But who can fault them for it? If benevolent big data can heal partition, who are we to protest? All this places a new spin on recent disclosures that Google harvests its users’ information and sells it to advertisers,…