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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…

Step Right Up And Get Your Low-Priced ‘Pro-God Content’! Donald Trump Enters the Bible Business

By Karen E. Park

Nearly four years ago on June 1, 2020, Federal officers violently cleared peaceful protestors from Washington DC’s Lafayette Square in order to make way for Trump to stand in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church and hold a Bible.* He had just given a speech at the Rose Garden, vowing to use military force to quell national protests over police brutality and the recent murder of George Floyd. As soon as he finished, he walked across the street wit…

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…

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…

Why the Methodist Effort to Discipline Sessions Is a Risky Business

By Daniel Schultz

The United Methodist News Service is reporting that over 600 clergy and lay members of the denomination are seeking church discipline against Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his role in the Trump administration’s policy of separating detained migrant families at the U.S. border: The group claimed in a June 18 statement that Sessions, a member of a Mobile, Alabama, church, violated Paragraph 2702.3 of the denomination’s Book of Discipline. Spec…

The Tea Party Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…rty), but rather a “Christian worldview” organization that brings together business leaders and pastors (including Kimbrell’s own pastor, Frank Page, a one-time president of the Southern Baptist Convention and now the head of its executive committee, and one of President Obama’s first appointees to the Advisory Council to his Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships). The country “cannot be successful without a fundamental Judeo-Christi…

His Holiness, Inc.: The Dalai Lama as a Spiritual Mega-Brand

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ed to enlighten alumni, students, faculty, and others from the surrounding business community in the sold-out auditorium on the ways in which practices of compassion can enrich—spiritually and materially—the lives of business people. Thus, CCARE director James Doty began his introduction of His Holiness by noting the financial consequences of the fast-paced, stress-filled, competitive lifestyles that characterize the entrepreneurial high tech indu…

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…

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…

Even After an Obama Victory Reports of the Death of the Religious Right are Greatly Exaggerated

By Bill Berkowitz

…to the US Postal Service and direct-mail companies experiencing a surge in business as urgent fundraising appeals pepper the mailboxes and inboxes of religious right supporters. At its worst—as was done during the Clinton Administration—forums will be convened to discuss whether the Obama presidency is legitimate. An Obama presidency will force the religious right to rethink its strategy and tactics; a process that has been happening over the past…