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Manischewitz Bought By Romney’s Old Crew

By Gordon Haber

…it. Rabbi Dov Manischewitz founded the business in 1888. At the time, matzo-baking was a laborious affair, further complicated by the halakhic stipulation that a matzo had to be made within 18 minutes. Rabbi Dov, however, figured out a way to mechanize the process and keep it kosher, making him the Henry Ford of the matzo business, although presumably without the antisemitism. Eventually the company branched out into other kosher comestibles like…

Bishops Rile Up the Religious Right, Then and Now

By Patricia Miller

…ationist Christian academies in the South, which had been created as an end-run around the desegregation of public schools, that politically activated the right. Sensing that “he had the beginnings of a conservative political movement,” political strategist Paul Weyrich and “other leaders of the nascent religious right blamed” President Jimmy Carter “for the IRS actions against segregated schools—even though the policy was mandated by Nixon.” But,…

Revelations from Family of Secrets (an addendum)

By Frederick Clarkson

…e no innocent, was not the instigator of the Watergate crimes and the cover-up, but appears to have been set-up. What’s more, some of the seeming good guys, were not, and much of what seemed to be, was not as it seemed. Among those he implicates in the set-up are Poppy Bush and perhaps most remarkably, John Dean, the former White House counsel who became best known as the key whistleblower. *In a related point, Baker notes that Nixon suspected the…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rvation of Christian civilization, ended with summit delegates calling for Russian-style “homosexual propaganda” bans to be passed around the world. At Mother Jones, Hannah Levintova asks, “Did Anti-Gay Evangelicals Skirt US Sanctions on Russia?” UN: Human Rights Office Reports on Free & Equal Campaign The UN Human Rights office has produced a video commemorating the first year of its Free & Equal campaign to promote the rights of LGBTI people. Ac…

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…

The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans

By Andrew Aghapour

…ty enabling them to take over a number of jobs, from waiters to nurses to 9-1-1 operators. Low-skilled workers have been displaced en masse, spawning the “We Are People” movement. But Humans isn’t concerned with the politics of this world so much as it is with the emotional toll it might take on a middle class family like the Hawkins, who purchase a synth they call Anita in the pilot episode. We see the mother, Laura Hawkins, cringe when her young…

Where Polls and Surveys Fall Short: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on “Inventing American Religion”

By Andrew Aghapour

…by selecting “none of the above.” Nones seem to have jumped from a stable 6-8% of the population during the 1970s and 1980s to, in recent years, 16-20%. Do you think this reflects a shift toward disbelief in America? The rise of the Nones—meaning people who say they don’t have a particular religious affiliation or actually identify themselves as being non-religious—does appear to be a trend that is picked up in the very best academic surveys as we…

Worse Than Madoff: Amway Launches Domestic Revival

By Bill Berkowitz

…eneurs left only with garages full of products, motivational tapes, and get-rich-quick books doing little but gathering dust. If you’ve watched any television at all since the holidays, you might have wondered why a company called Amway Global ran so many commercials. Were these ads for the same company that has, over the years, been widely accused of running a pyramid scheme, paid nearly $20 million in fines in a Canadian criminal fraud case, and…

Trump White House Cranks Religion to 11 As Impeachment Looms

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ut it’s also meant to allow religion to remain free of the taint of the day-to-day political power struggle. This is why Madison wrote that “religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.” Politicians taint religion by using it as a political tool. Indeed, Madison’s writing is a prescient warning about Donald Trump. The second reason Trump is cranking up the religion is, as I explain in The Founding My…

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…