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

By Paul Harvey

…ld work its magic. The logic is the same as in how the market is viewed in classical liberalism in economics. The Holy Spirit works as the invisible hand, activating the power that the text, like the market, produces. Of course (and as Fea knows), reality has a way of being more complicated. For example, Confederate soldiers, who were in need of so many more basic things (food, shoes, and other necessities), sometimes let Bible distributors know h…

Escalating Afghanistan: What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?

By Peter Laarman

…his 17-year chaplaincy at Yale by telling the members of the 1959 freshman class that “the Lord forbids our using our education merely to buy our way into middle-class security.” Coffin and other antiwar religious activists of the time never could persuade a majority of upper-middle class students to take to the streets against the Vietnam madness, though they made a valiant effort—and they understood the ugly race and class dimension of American…

“Burka Avenger”: Pakistan’s Middle Class Gets a Feminist Cartoon

By M. Sophia Newman

…correlate with hardline religious allegiances. The impoverished Northwest Frontier, a long-standing hotbed of Islamic fundamentalist organizing, has endured the majority of Taliban-related conflict, while Sindh province has seen little of the violence. From this perspective a burka-clad, equality-minded schoolteacher could signify a potent political act—the burka as a Trojan horse of equality promotion, or reclamation of Muslim identity from the…

I Miss Tina Fey

By Julie Ingersoll

…ed to a smaller venue (600 seats) and ticket sales remained low even after ticket prices were cut in half. There were still probably 80 empty seats, and it was clear that some number of attendees had free tickets. The largest financial supporter of the event was a local news/talk radio station and its representatives were the only media allowed in. As I arrived with my Religion Dispatches press badge they stopped me before I even got to the door….

The Sex Scandal Following Whole Foods’ Guru

By Michael Schulson

…end who does not serve on the board of a Fortune 500 company: The world of business is becoming one of the great cathedrals of the spirit. Businesses are becoming places in which meaning can be created, in which mutuality begins to happen. Business is the force in the world that is fulfilling every major value of the great spiritual traditions: intimacy, trust, a shared vision, cooperation, collaboration, friendship, and ultimately love. That’s Ga…

Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is: A For-Profit Meditation Studio Opens in New York

By Michael Schulson

…“you’re not just holding it together with duct tape.” In truth, opening a business in Manhattan isn’t exactly cheap. And MNDFL offers a range of class times and options that few temples or nonprofit meditation centers would be able to match. For yoga practitioners, the story here might sound familiar. A spiritual practice, fresh from the exotic Orient, becomes popular among American elites, and adapts itself to the world of for-profit fitness ins…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…aundiced eye these journalists who think that by the mere act of writing an 800 word op-ed they’re going to wave a wand over people of faith and make their beliefs go away. Not Happening. Yes, not every conservative Christian is a Dominionist, but to say a movement doesn’t exist, without even being able to say what it is in an op-ed is just irresponsible. It also shows what the real issue is. For the last 30 years, journalists have had an easy tim…

Beck & Palin Rake in the 9/11 Cash

By Becky Garrison

…dying Dubya into the Burning Bush. Palin promoted Glenn’s trek to the Last Frontier on her Facebook page: “We can count on Glenn to make the night interesting and inspiring, and I can think of no better way to commemorate 9/11 than to gather with patriots who will “never forget.” Unlike the “Restoring Rally” where Beck & Palin appeared gratis, Tea Partiers who want to catch Beck & Palin on September 11 at Anchorage’s Dena’iana Center will have to…

Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

By Lisa Miller

…ark-eyed women. We all know that Mohammad Atta, who flew American Airlines flight 11 into the Twin Towers on 9/11, was inspired by this promise. But among progressives, the sex promised to the righteous in the Qur’an isn’t sex as we know it, but something mysterious and sublime for which sex is a poetic stand-in. Second, what happens to our bodies in heaven? This is my favorite part of the heaven conversation. For if you believe in heaven as a rea…

God Wants You to Work Harder, and to Stop Complaining

By James Dennis LoRusso

…resented his extensive research on the benefits of “spiritual direction of businesspeople.” According to Spiller, spiritual direction, “the process of accompanying business people on a spiritual journey of individual and organizational transformation to increase well-being and make a greater difference and contribution for business and society,” would help to introduce “more consciousness of spirit in the workplace and of one’s self as a manifesta…