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Yoga Guru or CEO? Saving the Brand When Scandal Strikes

By Andrea R. Jain

…been perceived to be out of integrity with Anusara ethics… the disharmony between my personal image and the values of our school needs to be reconciled, if Anusara is to properly heal… we are exploring scenarios in which the company is restructured to give teachers more voice and representation not only in areas of brand, ethics and curriculum, but also in the governance and direction of the company itself. He added, “We must all remember that an…

By the Way: “Ten Commandments Judge” To Be Alabama’s Next Gov?

By Randall Balmer

…me logic applied to the second clause of the First Amendment, which covers freedom of the press. By his own reasoning, and that of all those who argue for “original intent” in their approach to the Constitution, freedom of the press would not include radio or television or the internet because the founders had no knowledge of these forms of media, just as they did not (according to Moore) know of any religions besides Christianity and Judaism. Doe…

Hundreds of Thousands Spent to Fight Gay Marriage While Poverty Grows

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…few years ago, my mother delightedly told me that the Baptist church in my Georgia hometown had raised more than $3 million to build a new state-of-the-art sanctuary. The sanctuary campaign came on the heels of another several million dollar fundraiser to move from a downtown location to the outskirts of town, to build a state-of-the-art worship center and gymnasium. My mother was proud of her hometown church, where I spent most of my early teen y…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…relational coalition,” intended to increase communication and coordination between members of the “religious freedom movement.” This includes such groups as the Heritage Foundation, Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition, and Family Policy Councils, which are state-level lobbies affiliated with both Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council. RD asked Samantha Sokol of the legislative affairs unit at Americans United for Separation of C…

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…m the ranks of the “black genocide” faction of the anti-abortion movement; Georgia Right to Life announced the hire of Catherine Davis to lead outreach to African Americans by claiming to fight “individuals and organizations that have as their mission to eliminate blacks from America”; and veteran activists have issued dozens of press releases demanding that Obama fight racism by fighting abortion. Proponents of the argument certainly see it, and…

What Do We Mean By ‘Judeo-Christian’?

By Shalom Goldman

…ecently: “the insidious thing about words is that the act of decrying them promotes their usage.” Being that the term is now ubiquitous, perhaps a look back at the history of “Judeo-Christian” is in order. Popularized by Liberals The first recorded uses of the term “Judeo-Christian” were in England in the 1820s, though it was used quite differently than it is in today’s political rhetoric. The term was first coined by protestant missionaries who u…

Who Says the Tea Party is Not a Religious Movement?

By Joanna Brooks

…rmon-belt than they do from Professor Ruprecht’s vantage point in Atlanta, Georgia. To this religion scholar and contemporary cultural critic it seems pretty clear that: A) the Tea Party movement is not monolithic but rather deeply inflected with and informed by local and regional histories, concerns, rhetorics, and cultural nuances; and B) among its LDS supporters in the American West, the Tea Party bears features of a religious movement. Espec…

Trump’s Lawsuit Amounts to ‘a Tweet With a Filing Fee,’ But That’s Not the Whole Strategy

By Andrew L. Seidel

…utcome. Except litigation. It’s tempting to think that Trump only wants to freeze the numbers at a time when it might be favorable to him. That’s part of his rationale, but he’s also trying to gum up the system. The plan is to start litigating these cases now, but figure out the best arguments as the cases progress in the precincts where they might do the most damage to the math. Start fighting everywhere now, but wait and see where he needs to ch…

Atlanta Falcons “Defend the Dome”: Football, Religion, and Existential Power

By Kenny Smith

…nd ultimately “dismantled and dominated” their opponents before a sold-out Georgia Dome. Following this Sunday’s defeat of the Chicago Bears, the Falcons were described as “proudly professional… they can take a punch [and] they can deliver one too”. Do You Cry for Blood at the Ringside? What is it about football that evokes such primal stuff? People have been thinking about this for decades. In 1929 the American psychiatrist, A. A. Brill, writing…

Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?

By Bradley Onishi

…ons.” In another example, when Raphael Warnock challenged Kelly Loeffler in 2020 for one of Georgia’s Senate seats, the incumbent held a rally where her political ally Doug Collins said, “There’s no such thing as a pro-choice pastor.” White evangelicals make up one-third of the GOP. The GOP is notoriously probing when it comes to gauging their bases’ priorities and desires. If abortion isn’t much of a motivation anymore, why has this been a record…