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A Matter of Life and Debt: The Role of Religion

By Peter Laarman

…0 years in the manner of a cancer or tape worm: think of all the leveraged buyouts in which the assets are pillaged and the workers sent home. The financial sector is also a cancer on our politics, spending vastly more money to buy votes in Congress than any other sector except (wait for it!) the health care industry. The cancer metastasizes because of the outsize profits and pay in the finance sector: 60 percent higher than in other sectors requi…

As Cambodia Erupts in Protest, a Stolen Buddhist Relic Ignites Anger

By Joe Freeman

…rs say that since the theft, few see the point of coming. “I ask people to buy my lotus flowers, incense and candles, but they mock me. They do not know what to buy and pray for, because the relic was stolen,” said a 23-year-old woman who has worked there for years. “We feel so sorry about the loss, but we do not know who stole it. Security has been been tightened ever since the relic vanished. Authorities stationed police and military police at t…

“Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” Less Durable Than Sexism Surrounding It

By Eva Mroczek

…s he buys: “We are storytellers first, and these items tell a story… We’re buyers of items to tell the story. We pass on more than we buy because it doesn’t fit what we are trying to tell.” There is no trope of the “ugly sister” What about the “ugly sister” metaphor? There is no such trope, Askeland claims. “Ugly” refers to the paleography—the sloppy handwriting on the forged fragment. “Sister” simply refers to “sister” fragments, related texts th…

“The Slut Assumption”: Myths About Jewelry Reveal Diamonds Aren’t Always A Girl’s Best Friend

By Wendy Doniger

…it would make women more thoughtful about letting jewelry—and the men who buy them jewelry—have too much power over them. The younger generation of women nowadays often prefer to buy their own jewelry. . . . Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? Certainly to inform and entertain! Not really to piss off anyone but De Beers! What alternative title would you give the book? Are Diamonds Always a Girl’s Best Friend? Myt…

Mark McGwire Confesses, He Sinned on Baseball’s Sacred Ground

By Michael J. Altman

…ey can do some amazing things. We worship them because of their bodies. We buy their iconography in packs of trading cards. We buy their shoes, their jerseys, and we pay to go to the local temple and see them amaze us. But when these bodies sin we feel sinned against. Tiger Woods sex scandals, Kobe Bryant’s adultery, baseball steroid use, and Michael Vick body slamming dogs—these are all athletic bodies transgressing the proper use of the body. We…

LGBT “Welcome” Ad Rejected by Sojourners, Nation’s Premier Progressive Christian Org.

By Rev. Robert Chase

…lti-layered, web-based advertising strategy that included a significant ad buy on the Sojourners website and email newsletters—home to one of the largest networks of progressive Christians in the United States. So, you can imagine our dismay when Sojourners refused to run our ads. In a written statement, Sojourners said, “I’m afraid we’ll have to decline. Sojourners position is to avoid taking sides on this issue. In that care [sic], the decision…

A History of the Unaffiliated: How the “Spiritual Not Religious” Gospel Has Spread

By Matthew S. Hedstrom

…inspiration on the web; attend retreats, seminars, workshops, and classes; buy candles and statues, bumper stickers and yoga pants; take spiritually motivated trips; and, perhaps most significantly, buy and read books. Since the 1920s, when the major New York trade presses first started offering nonsectarian religious books in significant numbers, books have been the most important conduit for spreading the “spiritual but not religious” gospel. T…

Beautiful Dreamers: A Documentary Asks “What is God”?

By Nathan Schneider

…hink about really differently. This God is a complex creature. Where Can I Buy This God? None of this, in Oh My God at least, falls short of ravishingly beautiful. Rodger ensures that people answer his question only in the most stunningly picturesque of settings. He then captures them with the intensity of contrast and color, combined with frenetic editing, that we usually see for thirty seconds at a time in car commercials (much of Rodger’s previ…

Obama Foe Wants His MTV

By Bill Berkowitz

…a business relationship.” In fact, he said, “we added [the station] to the buy list because there was a sales person at MTV who heard that we were making an ad buy and hustled” to get MTV on board. “A large portion of the MTV audience—a younger demographic—have been uncritically supportive [of Obama] in part because he is seen as hip and cool,” Hanna noted. “I thought it was important to plant some seeds of doubt within that group.” In a June 2004…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…sion talking about the LGBT people being less than human. For example, the number two person in the state broadcasting company – actually now he’s the number one person – hosted a show devoted to the question of whether it was enough to protect our children to ban homosexual propaganda or whether more needed to be done. He argued that more needed to be done. He said and we need to outlaw blood and sperm donations by them. And if they die in car ac…