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There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…ction and distribution enterprise. Fea succinctly describes it both as the American Bible Society, and the American Bible Society, capturing both parts of the argument woven throughout the work. Its initial goal in Bible distribution was to “link remote and scattered settlements into a Bible nation,” and in doing so, to spread the Word that could “produce good citizens, improve the condition of families, inspire men and women to exercise their God…

RDBook: Bernard Avishai’s The Hebrew Republic

By Mitchell Plitnick

…ion? Avishai has long advocated the formation of an ideologically-centrist business class that could be Israel’s emissaries and players in the game of globalization. The Hebrew Republic places its hopes in this globalized class of centrists, and frankly, it’s a good spot to put them in. This political stratum is not confined to Israeli Jews, but includes Palestinian entrepreneurs as well. By its very nature, this economic community stands in oppos…

Workers Once Forced the Social Gospel Into Churches—Can It Happen Again?

By Eric C. Miller

…nomination embraced the conservative brand of labor reform promoted by the American Federation of Labor. Social Christianity was union made, indeed. The alignment of theology with class appears pretty stark. You document the growth and ornamentation of church buildings as wealthy industrialists began filling the coffers, as well as the practice of charging “pew rents,” which was new to me. Is it fair to say that these Gilded Age churches had “sold…

#NamaSlay, Or How Black Women Are Using Trap Yoga as a Mode of Spiritual Resistance

By Anita Little

….’” A friend who had a studio asked if she would want to teach a trap yoga class. Rogers agreed, and the 60-person class she signed up to teach sold out in just a few hours. And it kept selling out over and over. At the first class, she was overwhelmed. “I had never seen so many plus-sized people, so many queer folks, so many men in baggy pants and fitted caps. That chemical smell when you open a brand new yoga mat for the first time? That was eve…

RDGenerations: Religion in the Academy

By Lucia Hulsether

…tutional aspects. LH: How have you handled it? MH: I don’t teach Bible classes, so the closest I come to the example you posed is in my class on conflicts between the religious right and left since World War II. Since many of these conflicts involve the Bible, I give students a set of Bible passages—a sort of “greatest hits” package—and ask them to write down what these passages say about (1) relations between women and men, (2) slavery, and (…

The Forgotten Struggle Over Gender and Bigotry in Christianity

By Stephen J. Patterson

…hich the newly elected president rode into office by telling white, middle-class Americans who their enemies really are: foreigners, who are taking their jobs; the poor, who are soaking up their tax dollars on the public dole; and women, who do not know their proper place. This message found a special resonance with Christians, most of whom voted for him: 58 percent of Protestants, 60 percent of (white) Catholics, 61 percent of Mormons, and 81 per…

Worse Than Madoff: Amway Launches Domestic Revival

By Bill Berkowitz

…d for it): UK Justice Norris found in 2008 that out of an IBO [Independent Business Owners] population of 33,000, “only about 90 made sufficient incomes to cover the costs of actively building their business.” That’s a 99.7% loss rate for investors. The scheme appears to be falling apart in the US, UK, and Australia hence the beefed up prime-time ads in the US. Many of [Amway’s] highest-level distributors have left to join other multilevel marketi…

The Traitor Chaplain Who Gave Government Prayer to America — A 4th of July Corrective

By Andrew L. Seidel

…r even suppressed. Duché betrayed American independence. When we hear these unconstitutional legislative prayers before government bodies all over this country we should remember their legacy is one of treason and betrayal. They are, at heart, un-American. Happy Fourth of July, America. This article is adapted from The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American which examines and debunks the historical disinformation that forms the ba…

Should Faith Healing ‘Do Business’ with Modern Medicine?

By Beatrice Marovich

…t religion and medicine (if they’re not at “loggerheads”) are going to “do business with each other.” That is, they’ll be engaged in forms of exchange and commerce. Often, religion and medicine are obligated to do business by the patient herself. Patients, who walk into a doctor’s office with concrete religious practices habituated into their daily lives, with myths and stories crawling under their skin, bring religion and medicine together whethe…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…s about Muslims. King told Gaffney on his radio program, for example, that American Muslims don’t “unite as Americans” in times of war. Zuhdi Jasser, an Arizona physician whom conservatives frequently highlight as their example of a true “moderate” Muslim, and who will reportedly be a key witness for King, says in Gingrich’s movie, “if anyone wants to find a Muslim voice, you’re going to find that it appears monolithic.” He, like Gaffney, claims t…