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Is Trying Really Good Enough? ‘The Good Place’ Has a C-word Problem

By Daniel Albert Joslyn

…pitalist, who spent his life buoyed by his father’s fortune and the family business he took over, and who spends the season believing himself to be, literally, too good even for heaven. This is a man who lacks a moral compass, who, it is very strongly implied, regularly sexually harassed his employees, and who spent his life in the pursuit of nothing beyond power and glory. While the show takes significant time to point out many of his individual…

Utah Rejects Arizona-Style Anti-Immigrant Politics

By Joanna Brooks

…Church publicly declared its support for a “Utah Compact” designed by Utah business and political leaders identifying five principles to guide immigration debate. The Compact pushed for problem-solving at the federal level, discouraged the use of local law enforcement in profiling alleged “illegal immigrants,” opposed the unnecessary separation of families, and urged a simultaneously “humane” and “business-friendly” approach to immigration. The Ch…

Layoffs on the Religious Right

By Bill Berkowitz

…lanet. But despite the fact that news about Moon’s various religious/media/business endeavors rarely appears on the radar screens of the nation’s media (both mainstream and alternative), Moon continues to move ahead on a number of fronts. His Washington Times continues to be the daily house-organ/must-read for conservatives; he has spent hundreds of millions of dollars supporting right-wing organizations and causes; he controls the US sushi indust…

Baptist Resolutions Signal More Culture War

By Paul Harvey

…“sex” in federal law rejects God’s design of male and female; and WHEREAS, Business owners and employees of various faiths are increasingly faced with decisions to submit to unjust laws about marriage and sexuality or violate their consciences; and WHEREAS, Experience and recent history have shown that when the government redefines marriage as anything other than between a man and a woman, the police power of the state is brought to bear to enforc…

Tomorrow-Less Land

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…er a government that picks and chooses where it intervenes. Farms and agro-business, yes; automobiles, sometimes; steel, no way. Thus the political left needs to explain more clearly than it has done, how the current proposals are not legislative pandering to its dominant constituency—“Wall Street interests”—such that we instantly share their sense of crisis in a way that we have never shared the equally grave sense of crisis among American steelw…

Hip-Hop Religion and Spiritual Sampling in a “Post-Racial” Age

By Josef Sorett

…iftieth Law is much more interested in the path to success, writ large—the business side—than it is in the particularities of its subject’s story, who has after all, long been clear that music was always a means to an end: Get Rich or Die Tryin’. Significantly, Fifty’s commercial strategy was deeply indebted to a rap group that made its debut just a decade earlier: the Wu Tang Clan. In fact, one could draw a line in the sand of hip hop history—bef…

Doonesbury Comic Waxes Eloquent on the Greatness of Jesus, Slams Old Testament God

By Benjamin Weiner

…ideas led Trudeau to make this slip—to associate those opposed to Jesus with usury—the game grows a little less fun.) The money changers, who most likely provided a necessary service to pilgrims coming to the Temple from afar, seem to get caught up in Jesus’s frenzy against those who conduct business in the sacred precinct. That is to say, when Jesus gets mad, Mr. Trudeau, it’s not like those vicious “old testament” prophets Isaiah and Amos, who…

How to Choose a Tour Company for Your Hajj

By Amina Wadud

…got a phone call from the agency that I chose. Turns out, this first full business day after Ramadan was also the day that they clarified for me all the upcoming deadlines. In the next week (that is, by or before September 20), all my pre-travel preparations need to be complete. It all feels rather last-minute to me. But then, maybe that’s the way it goes. No, if I had my way I would call this entry: how not to choose a tour company. Really. The…

Wichita, the Sequel: A Clinic Reopens at Ground Zero in America’s Fight over Abortion

By Kathryn Joyce

…nformation,” and intimidate potential vendors and contractors out of doing business with Burkhart by tarring them as abortion collaborators online. With help from national partners in other cities, they would also track down staff members in Wichita or out of state and protest outside their homes. Most effective, he said, would be Operation Rescue’s increasingly dominant strategy of “constricting the clinics out of business” through the enactment…

Clinton vs. Sanders isn’t About Policy, it’s About Power

By Marcia Pally

…and with dealings that skirt the law. Most voters know politics is grisly business. We recognize the seamy side and pick a candidate whose better sides we like. In short, we vote for a candidate in spite of the flaws. As one millennial supporter recently told the New Republic’s Adam Peck, “I am willing to say Sanders has been a little hypocritical when it comes to guns, but it is not enough to make my support waver.” But votes for Hillary come, a…