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A Call for Heresy

…d when we communicate. Human communication, like life in general, is risky business. But it is exciting business. It’s like an unscripted drama, an improvised dance. What alternate title would you give the book? Saints in Peril: Islam and America in the Age of Globalization. Fortunately, my publishers, especially the press’ marketing manager, convinced me that their title is more appealing. The best they would allow me is change “heretics” to “her…

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Where are the Mormon “Nuns on the Bus”?

…uthor Jeff Benedict promotes the image in his book The Mormon Way of Doing Business. Coverage of profit-driven LDS Church business practices (including the opening of a Church-owned luxury mall) in Businessweek and elsewhere this year have also contributed to the national imagination of the Mormon businessman. But is this image just an emerging Mormon stereotype? There are, after all, probably just as many failed Mormon businessmen as there are su…

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A New Goal for Anti-Choice Activists: Targeting “Sex-Selective” Abortion

…ated that “Planned Parenthood’s representative made it appear the abortion business would have no problem with doing abortions” for women seeking to select for sex. “In fact, comments from Planned Parenthood’s representative make some wonder whether the abortion business would ever ask if a woman or couple wanted an abortion for that reason.” I asked Ertelt to clarify what he meant: How had the Planned Parenthood representative “made it appear” th…

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Lies, Intimidation, and the Insurance Industry: The Republicans Have Lost Their Minds

…k Kemp and Dick Army and the rest of the Republican gang about using their business ties to help finance the pro-life movement to defeat Democrats. I know this script. I helped write it. Democratic members of Congress are being harassed by angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior at local town halls. It’s the tactic we used to follow abortion providers around their neighborhoods. “Protesters” surrounded Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) and forced p…

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Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

…no dogs no Irish’, we’ve moved on from that. If people want to operate in business, and have all the protections that the law gives people to operate as a commercial enterprise, then they need to comply with all aspects of the law and not cherry pick.” Israel: Justice Minister Presides Over Same-Sex Ceremony; Surrogacy Bill Advances Marriage by same-sex couples is not legal in Israel, but Justice Minister Tzipi Livni presided over a wedding cerem…

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How U.S. Conservatives Conjured the Jesus of Their Dreams

…s. Keddie argues that Arminianism was foundational to the formation of the classical liberalism that was then much advanced by John Locke, by far the most influential figure in the background of early American thinking about the social contract. It goes without saying that this kind of thinking was racist to the core, as proponents “wielded these ideologies in ways that marginalized Indigenous and communities of color who were taken in slavery.” F…

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Don’t Call it a Turkish Spring

…kinds of religious Turks. Aligned firmly with Erdogan’s AKP, there are big businessmen, dynamic capitalists, those in the pursuit of faith and free enterprise. Then there are the Turkish shopkeepers, who we in America might call ‘Joe the Plumbers’. And finally the kind influenced by Sufism. These are impressions of course, with no hard data behind them, but the differences I encountered speak to the diversity of religious identity. In the past the…

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Scott Walker Loves Jesus. That’s Nice

…isconsin. I say all this to make the point that American business and its “business-friendly” sock puppets like Gov. Scott Walker will stop at nothing—nothing—to roll back worker rights and worker security. So it is simply wrong to view the current Wisconsin putsch with the eyes of “on the one hand… and on the other hand.” It’s not that kind of situation. It is simple class violence, waged (as always) by the powerful against the vulnerable. It’s n…

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Detroit’s Baggy Pants Fatwa

…ng more than choosing to dress their own way while going about their daily business. Many would no doubt object to my comparison of Detroit’s crusade against boxer shorts to the blatant intolerance seen in Iran and Saudi Arabia. Detroit isn’t imposing religious values on anybody, one might retort, but in a way that’s precisely the problem. Were this about reasonably objective and/or widely held norms of modesty to which healthy religious values ar…

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From ‘Management Gurus’ to ‘Corporate Chaplains’: A Review of Spirituality Inc.

…rashi University. His historical overview of the ascension of the creative class and knowledge workers is thorough without being redundant, and he also examines the ways welfare capitalism has created a system distinctly in opposition to the European social welfare models when it comes to workers’ employer-sponsored benefits. Comparing modern corporations that offer on-site benefits such as health and wellness centers, daycare facilities, and kitc…

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