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To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

By Diane Winston

…gment” of the nation. By the twentieth century, these yeomen-farmers had a new enemy: national chains. Viewed as foreign interlopers, the chains threatened to take local resources and local capital out of the Ozarks and put them into the pockets of Northern fat cats. In response, farmers and small businessmen began experimenting with new retail models: stores that were locally owned and financed, free of unions, and structured as cooperatives. It…

Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era

By Gary Dorrien

…ves in the film that political converts offend their old friends and their new allies. The old friends hate them for breaking ranks and the new allies hate them even more for being untrustworthy and weak. Niebuhr’s courage to change was one of his chief strengths, although some things about him did not change. He always aspired to realism, even as a pacifist. He thrived on paradox almost to the point of treating it as a criterion of truth. He neve…

Health Care as Moral Drama

By Ira Chernus

…jority of conservatives themselves, and their loved ones. There is nothing new about conservatives on the march in the service of self-defeating causes. They have long opposed measures that would give them cleaner air to breathe, water to drink, and food to eat. They have long supported measures that would keep them dependent on foreign oil. They have long cheered for wars that send their sons and daughters off to kill and be killed, and they’ve s…

The Religious Lives of Soldiers

By Jonathan Ebel

…d the time to read more fiction and/or the talent to write it. What’s your new book? I have three new things in the works right now. My friend John Carlson and I have co-edited a volume on religion and violence in American history. We have seventeen wonderful contributors, including Martin Marty, John Corrigan, Stanley Hauerwas, Eddie Glaude, Jr., Brent Plate, Sohail Hashmi, James Turner Johnson, and Jean Bethke Elshtain; and we have chapters cove…

Unitarian Church Shooter Jailed for Life

By Jonathan L. Walton

…itten manifesto and intended suicide note which he released to a Tennessee newspaper following sentencing. The letter represents the voice of one wrestling with a growing sense of personal despair while situated inside the echo chamber of conservative talk radio, Fox News and right-wing reading material. Adkisson’s nihilistic rant is chock full of militaristic allusions plucked straight from the hyperbolic and extreme hypothetical rhetoric of Rush…

Palin, Again.

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…her alleged son-in-law-to-be not take down his “My Space” page, fail to register to vote, and why does he show no current interest in his alleged fiancé, or the semi-sacrament of matrimony? The Democratic Party, with its new leadership, has a rare and inspiring opportunity to listen to a younger generation, and even to conservative religiosity, as it imagines the forging of new coalitions for the difficult and challenging days ahead….

MLK Monument That Never Was, is a Reminder of the King Too Often Ignored

By Ed Simon

…had to admit that it “would never happen.” Savage believed, as he told the New York Times‘ Shaila Dewan in 2008, that the most fitting memorial to Dr. King would have been a “life-size statue of him, placed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where he stood when he delivered his most famous oration.” The actual memorial, as designed by Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin, conveys a rather different affect. Instead of Savage’s seemingly unassuming commemo…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…made us realize Muslims could also benefit from genuine suspense and good news about their own religious leadership. Ever since secular Turkish general Mustafa Kemal Ataturk undid the Caliphate and ended the Ottoman Empire in 1924, the Muslim world, or at least the Sunni Muslim world, hasn’t had a Caliph; literally a ‘successor’ (to the Prophet Muhammad). That’s a long time to be alone. In light of America’s re-election of a Muslim President and…

Would Gandhi Disband Occupy?

By Ira Chernus

…cial movements organized around resisting racial segregation or the war in Vietnam. One big target does have its advantages. But Gandhi saw his opposition to British rule as merely one part of his larger program of “constructive work.” (Here again Desai errs, claiming that “the more mature” Gandhi shifted his focus from politics to constructive work; in fact the Mahatma never separated the two.) And for most of the constructive program Gandhi had…

Revelations from Family of Secrets (an addendum)

By Frederick Clarkson

…r National Guard in order to avoid military service that might send him to Vietnam; how he failed to fulfill that service; and how his failure was systematically covered-up and politically defused. Also covered are the allegations of how W. was an abuser of illegal drugs in addition to his apparently drinking problems as a young man. One important story from W.’s past that has long been rumored is confirmed in this book. It is a story that perhaps…