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Nike’s Token Equality: New Campaign Masks the Truth About Workers’ Rights

By Gerald J. Beyer

…rts employers to “Give full measure when you measure out and weigh with a fair balance. This is fair and better in the end” (17:35). A Manual of Hadith states “when you hire, compensate the workers and treat them fairly.” As Rabbi Jill Jacobs has written, Judaism also has a robust tradition in halakhah, or Jewish law, mandating just wages and treatment of workers. This tradition commends a living wage, respect for the dignity of all workers, and h…

The Bible Is Not a Diet Plan

By Rob Goodman

…on radically different from what passes for a family today. From Israel to China, generations of our ancestors memorized the names of their fathers’ fathers, chanted them, worked them into poems. Genealogies are a window into the alien minds of our forebears. But we cannot use them to get rich or thin. Wilkinson’s verdict: “boring!” Or consider the words of another megapastor, Joel Osteen, in his bestselling Your Best Life Now: “If you are struggl…

10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…Self-Realization Fellowship, a yoga organization that has attracted large numbers of disciples from all over the world to this day. The film serves as a reminder that modern yoga has not always been about the stretching and muscle-building postures meant to function as fitness routines that are so often associated with yoga in the popular imagination. Yogananda introduced Kriya Yoga, believed to be the scientific path to the experience of God, an…

Sharbat Gula’s Experience Exemplifies the ‘White Savior’ Lens Through Which Most Americans View Afghanistan

By Sara Kamali

…icative of Pakistan’s strategic maneuvering and strengthening of ties with China and Russia. Afghans with the access to do so have fled their cherished homeland to restart their lives elsewhere. Bibi Sharbat Gula, captured on the cover of the June 1985 edition of National Geographic, is one of them. Sharbat Gula’s then-ten-year-old face is also one of the most enduring images of Afghanistan for the West. Her picture, however, isn’t merely a portra…

Want To Know How 84% of the World Sees Itself: Study Theology

By Alana Massey

…e approximately 100 million Christians just beginning to worship freely in China. Peterson remarks that understanding everything from “the nuances of Islam’s views on women, the role of Christian doctrines in colonialism, and how the Reformation continues to influence trade relations” is integral to developing new approaches in areas like international development, conflict resolution, and economic growth. And for those who might argue that a surv…

Mormon Leader Affirms Doctrine on Marriage; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ays after six men were detained for waving a rainbow flag at a concert in Cairo, Sept. 22. Andy Towle highlights several media reports of that event, in which concert-goers were arrested after raising a rainbow flag at a concert in Cairo. AP reports: Homosexuality is highly taboo in Egypt among Muslims and minority Christians alike, but it is not explicitly prohibited by law. Egypt regularly arrests gay men, with large police raids on private part…

Body of Work: Remembering Daniel Berrigan, 1921-2016

By Michele Somerville

…an old Irish-American guy, was harping on communism and the menace of “Red China” on a weekly basis. I stopped going to mass regularly in the spring of 1972. About thirty years later, personal crisis and desperation led me to search for a church. I had expected, at the beginning of this search, to land in a progressive Episcopal congregation, but surprised myself by winding up, in the year 2000, in a Roman Catholic parish. Why Roman Catholic? Ther…

Cafeteria Christianity in the Age of Social Media: What’s Old Is New Again

By Kate Blanchard

…ng battle to define “true” Christianity. It didn’t have to be this way. In China, for example, most folks have no problem mixing and matching three or more religious traditions, and the idea of a unified Hinduism was more or less invented in the modern era. But most traditions have at least some who take a my-way-or-the-highway approach and have particular shibboleths upon which no compromise is possible. (What would mainstream religion coverage l…

This Halloween, Think of Islam as a Religion of Pieces. Reese’s Pieces.

By Haroon Moghul

…ft: Terrifying small children; overconsumption; sex; buying things made in China we’ll only use one evening of an entire year and then discarding; designing ever more provocative and offensive products; pumpkins in (and on) everything. Otherwise this great American project falls apart, and we might as well live in the world of The Man in the High Castle. Not only that, but Halloween should be a goldmine for people of color. It’s the only time of y…

Religion Dispatches Turns Two

By The Editors

…istorical screen: it took over a thousand years to build the Great Wall of China; decades for the ancient Egyptians to build the pyramids; 14 years to complete Mount Rushmore; over ten years for James Cameron to get Avatar to the big screen. This month is the second-year anniversary for Religion Dispatches, which launched in February 2008. While RD has not yet reached the heights and scale of the achievements just mentioned, we are off to a surpri…