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Manischewitz Bought By Romney’s Old Crew

By Gordon Haber

…God only knows what they’ll do with 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…

Reverend Billy For Mayor: Is He For Real?

By Nathan Schneider

…y’s development policies under Bloomberg, arguing that its support for big business and gentrification is ruining New York’s real treasures, its neighborhoods. These policies are not inevitable good sense, Talen insists, but intrusions of corporate power. People’s willingness to accept the status quo is a failure of imagination that he hopes to remedy. For more than a decade, the Reverend Billy act has commandeered religious tropes to subvert the…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…put Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortions, out of business.” “In the past, there have been may local and statewide efforts to thwart Planned Parenthood, but what makes the National Coalition to Defeat Planned Parenthood special is that for the first time, the major pro-life groups around the country are coming together to implement a unified national action,” said Eric Scheidler, communications director for the Chicago-bas…

Gordon Gekko Gets God: The Heritage Foundation of Theology

By Peter Laarman

…publisher Rich Karlgaard who quipped that listening to a pastor preach on business is like listening to a eunuch lecture on sex: neither has hands-on experience. The failure of the logic is obvious but the next section is revealing for an author who once worked at the world’s foremost anti-evolution “think tank,” devoted to the replacement of universally-accepted science with Christian beliefs: No serious Christian writing about natural science w…

Why the Women’s Ordination Question Will Shape the Future of Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…ublications, and some forms of inquiry stigmatized. LDS institutional and business insiders often cite with approval Harvard Business School professor and former LDS regional authority Clayton Christiansen’s work on “innovative disruption” as a force in institutional life, but it is hard to conceive of an organizational culture more allergic to disruption than today’s gender-segregated, regionally- and racially-dominated, hierarchical, and geront…

Why I Joined Over a Thousand Faith Leaders in Masterpiece Case Brief

By Marie Alford-Harkey

…to perform a wedding for a same-sex couple. But Masterpiece Cakeshop is a business open to the public; it cannot choose to deny service to same-sex couples. If Phillips believes baking a cake for a same-sex couple violates his religious beliefs, he can choose not to operate a business. The same would be true if an atheist baker believed that baking a cake for a baptism violated their beliefs. An individual is free to hold and to practice such bel…

Pornographic War Gazing: Why We Don’t Look Away

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…major battle over Manassas in Virginia the smug Washington politicians and business patricians buggied out to the ridges to watch their volunteer boys send the rebels packing. But the southern confederates won the day and the war picnic-goers fled alongside the hopes of a quick end to the conflict. They came to feast their eyes on killing and revenge and ended up with a cowardly diarrhoea. Like a bloated drunk, they could not stomach what their ey…

Franklin Graham Defends Himself from Birtherism Charges by Engaging in… Birtherism

By Sarah Posner

…and many others have shown, years ago, Graham is just flat wrong about the business about Islamic law and Obama’s father. I’ll let Hussein’s 2008 post explain: Although he [Obama] was born to a Muslim father, his father renounced his faith. To be a Muslim is not a legal status that is transmitted by birth, like Judaism is confirmed through the mother. A child can be raised as a Muslim, but still renounce the faith when she reaches the age of compr…

Confront Death by Avoiding Fritos: The Gluten Lie, Fad Diets, & Foodie Faith

By Michael Schulson

…hat makes the best story, and science writers, myself included, are in the business of making science compelling by telling stories. It’s true: we report scientific findings in a narrative form. One important point: science is filled with conditionals and religious literature is not. Any religious literature, any revealed scripture, doesn’t have lots of mights and coulds and maybes and further revelations are needed. There’s nothing wrong with tha…

Female Breadwinners=Death of Civilization, Says Fox Panel

By Melissa Weininger

…the home, engages in agricultural labor singlehandedly, runs a successful business. This was the ideal for the traditional Jewish wife, and in many Jewish households in nineteenth-century Europe (and many ultra-Orthodox communities today), women were the primary breadwinners, a role considered essential to the maintenance of a vibrant, stable, ethical society. The highest value of the community was Torah study, which was only open to men, and onl…