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New Book: God Favors Supply-Side Economics

By Gordon Haber

…r in America usually have air conditioning, a car, a television, and a telephone.” These (alleged) facts must be a great comfort to the Americans struggling with joblessness and poverty. There is some decent advice about budgeting in Godonomics, but it’s undermined by all the howlers. Hovind believes, for example, that the Federal Reserve is a “privately owned bank,” that the term “social justice” has been hijacked by secret “Marxists” like Jim Wa…

The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism

By Lauren Sutton

…the Keystone controversy, for example—instead of campaigning for people to buy better light bulbs. Might we be moving back to a more community-focused brand of environmentalism? I don’t know if we are or not. That’s a good question. Some sort of governmental or international effort has always been a part of the equation. In that sense it’s not really a change. But even the light bulb movement had a government law component, and now [in many places…

Catholics Choose Conscience Over Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…my idea of making a statement. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s buy on October 28, 2012 is a clean, clear investment in getting their message across. The half-fold portrait of the Rev. Graham, albeit a bit dated, accompanies a strong statement of highlights of the Republican platform, with his signature added for good measure. The message is “Vote for biblical values this November 6.” This is America. You can buy what you can’t win by p…

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…

Mass Conversion: Changing Churches to Stop the Church From Changing

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ch is much more than its magisterial expression. Renting with an Option to Buy-In Any understanding of the Church enacted by humans, as Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams noted in an address just weeks after Pope Benedict issued his invitation to disaffected Anglicans, “is likely to be historically variable, vulnerable and in some way inadequate.” This reality, Williams argues, calls all Christians into ongoing dialogue about what the Church…

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 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…

Ask a Muslim: What of Neanderthals and Aliens?

By Haroon Moghul

…ut. But why would they know to be concerned? If you said to me, “I’m gonna buy a house,” and the first thing out of my mouth is, “Will you buy a house with a leaky roof, and a flooded basement,” a reasonable assumption would be that you’d previously bought a house you shouldn’t have. God is in the middle of an important announcement, the creation of the very species for which the Muslim scripture is intended as moral guidance, and the angels all b…

Why Do Mormons Side with People Who Don’t Like Mormons?

By Joanna Brooks

…to fight intolerance against immigrants and Muslims. But too many Mormons buy into a naive notion of Mormon exceptionalism: the logic that LDS people, by virtue of our clean-living and shiny goodness, can ultimately win anyone over, if they get to know us well enough. I don’t buy it. We shouldn’t be surprised that people and organizations that countenance prejudicial behavior of other varieties—the Boy Scouts, for example, have a terrible record…

From Elon to Elizabeth: The 7 Seals of the 2022 Apocalypse

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…s in one, Elon just won’t go away and count his billions. He was forced to buy a social media site in an effort to lionize free speech so hard that he’s suspended hundreds, if not thousands, of accounts of journalists, activists, and everyday folk he doesn’t like or who speak out about fascism and White supremacy. After warning about doxxing and suspending accounts linking to his jet, Elon peskily doxxed himself at the World Cup in Qatar. Looks li…