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Purchasing Morality: What Happens When “Buying Local” Itself is Marketed?

By Laurie Patton

…to put faces on economic transactions in these times. The lack of such face-to-face interaction is the very thing that Margaret Atwood argues was behind the bank collapse: the lack of personal engagement in a lending structure that had gotten so complex, and so out of control, that there were no human-to-human interactions and accountabilities behind it. It was not grounded in humane morality: the basic understanding that we should not borrow or l…

Kavanaugh Hearings Are a Commentary on Mormonism

By Holly Welker

…ns. It was so normal, in fact, that when I visited a college friend as a 20-year-old, her father, who held high ecclesiastical office but never over me, decided he had the right to insist I submit to an interrogation. I was indignant and offended—I barely knew this man, and, to use a Mormon locution, he had no stewardship over me. But everyone else went along with it. My friend and her mother left. And eventually I figured the easiest way to get t…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…Jones College, Graham worked the summer of 1936 as a highly successful door-to-door salesman for the Fuller Brush Company. He spent only the fall semester at the famously fundamentalist school, then located in Cleveland, Tennessee, before transferring to Florida Bible Institute. Jones, the school’s founder and president, had tried to bully Graham into staying at Bob Jones College, warning that “if you leave and throw your life away at a little cou…

His Own Received Him Not: Jimmy Carter, First Evangelical President

By Randall Balmer

…out six weeks later. Writing is how I think. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? This is the first biography of the thirty-ninth president to take seriously Jimmy Carter’s faith as a motivation for his actions. Carter ascended to the presidency in part on the resurgence of progressive evangelicalism, an understanding of the Christian faith that takes seriously the words of Jesus to care for “the least of these.” One of the man…

This is not a Religion Column: Biblical Capitalism

By Jeff Sharlet

…ing the creator as a crony. Biblical capitalism isn’t, ultimately, a supply-and-demand religion. Between business conservatism’s love of laissez-faire and religious conservatism’s love of an interventionist god—McCain’s tax cuts for the rich and Palin’s prayers for a new Alaskan pipe line—the only salvation to be found is in the form of bail-outs, indulgences, to borrow a pre-Protestant term. And those are reserved for “the new chosen,” as the Fel…

Only Fetuses and Popes are Worthy

By Frances Kissling

…and risk to the life of the pregnant woman, in this case a child. The nine-year-old weighs about 80 pounds and is not fully developed. Carrying twins to term and delivering them is medically very risky. The Catholic church first hired lawyers to try to prevent the abortion. When that failed and the abortion was performed, the local bishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho announced that the mother and the doctors had “incurred excommunication.” The child, he…

Proposition 8—the Rematch?

By Bill Berkowitz

…2010.” ++++++++++ American Family Association Glides into Fourth Decade End-of-the-year fundraising pitches are commonplace in the world of nonprofit organizations. In a recent “Personal Note,” the Rev. Donald Wildmon, founder and chairman of the Tupelo, Mississippi-based American Family Association, thanked his supporters and extended an invitation to them to become one of 100,000 contributors to the organization’s work. In many of these appeals,…

Praying To The God Of The SUV

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…made messes has led to another curious phenomenon: praying for a holy “bail-out” plan for struggling automakers. Churches around Michigan used their Sunday services to pray for a miracle for the auto companies and the workers who rely on them. One service was complete with Hybrid S.U.V.s on display in the front of the church. Greater Grace, the largest church in Detroit, invited officials from the United Automobile Workers union to speak before Bi…

Will Jim Wallis Represent True Worker Justice Before Senate Committee?

By Peter Laarman

…ncome inequality over the past three decades has been the frontal corporate-government assault on unions and union power. Especially during this economic crisis, if you really want bottom-up stimulus you need to strengthen worker bargaining power. 2.) Younger people of color are in the forefront of current union organizing drives, so leveling the playing field in order to give such drives a chance to succeed is also an important current-day civil…

“Evil,” a Cautionary Tale For Iran

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ssential role in US domestic politics as well. Playing on the standard post-Reagan caricature of “liberals” as values-relativists and immoralists, political conservatives trumpet the language of good and evil as one of the significant lines of demarcation distinguishing their vision of global politics from the left’s. The political left is incapable of calling anything or anyone evil. The right, by contrast, understands that there are some things…