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Spinning But Not Religious: Inside the New Economy of Spiritual Fitness

By Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst

…S. alone. If you include food, gyms, studies, clothing and equipment, that number increases dramatically to half a trillion U.S. dollars. Add the category of “wellness”—spas, workplace wellness, mindfulness programs—the figure jumps to $3.4 trillion. Sweat Equity: Inside the New Economy of Mind and Body Jason Kelly Wiley Press (April, 2016) Wellness, of course, is where the mind meets the body—as well as the spirit, it would seem. Indoor cycling t…

The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins

By Eric C. Miller

…hes couldn’t provide it. Calls for revival didn’t bring in either souls or dollars. A widespread critique of capitalism reemerged to characterize suffering as a result of systemic rather than personal failings. It’s also worth noting that most folks didn’t change their minds entirely. In general, clergy still opposed direct aid to the poor—the dole—because they thought poor people were irresponsible. The New Deal only provided such aid briefly, in…

Conservatives Accuse Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Misconduct

By Elizabeth Drescher

…likewise explained that the AAF’s complaint seeks redress for millions of dollars “squandered” on litigation by attempting to apply a provision of the canons added in 2009 to prevent local clergy and congregations from appealing to secular courts to overturn the decision of a bishop. The canon prevents, for instance, a church slated for closure by a bishop from suing in civil courts to retain property or funds from its sale. The provision effecti…

Why Build a Mormon Complex in Philly?

By David Krueger

…in this northeastern city, numbering just over 40,000. Despite their small numbers, the church is rumored to have spent upwards of 100 million dollars to build this temple, located in a prime downtown location, and constructed with detailed craftsmanship rarely seen in contemporary buildings. In terms of sheer size it rivals the nearby Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, and the headquarters of the Philadelphia Archdiocese, which serves o…

What Penis Theft Tells Us About Belief, Culture, and Our Brains

By Vlad Chituc

…nter. It ended up costing Coca-Cola somewhere between $100 to $250 million dollars to try to deal with it. Wow. There’s a fantastic book called Outbreak, edited by Robert Bartholomew. It’s like 700 pages of stories like this, going on and on and on. He has written recently about some girls in New York who had a psychogenic motor-movement disorder. Those didn’t use to happen in Western society quite as much. To catch that from somebody, you have to…

Must You Oppose Public Funding Even If You Oppose Abortion?

By Patricia Miller

…would work to end Hyde, saying “the federal government should not use its dollars to intrude on a poor woman’s decision to terminate her pregnancy.” But once in office, he declined to spend any political capital on Hyde and reneged on a pledge to include access to abortion in publicly funded national health insurance. But theologian Sheila Briggs argues that allowing “for the public funding of abortion—whether you consider abortion ethically acce…

Bagels Aren’t Enough

By Jay Michaelson

…but confusingly to the philanthropists who have spent tens of millions of dollars on the problem of Jewish continuity, this solution doesn’t work. For some, yes, Jewish culture, history, and “peoplehood” are enough reasons to raise your kids Jewish. But as the Pew data shows, not for most. As a result, the funders of the JIC—an increasingly small circle of increasingly wealthy people—are stuck. Few people want the product they’re selling, and the…

Latest “Religious Freedom” Bills Reveal a New Strategy

By Sunnivie Brydum

…s all well and good for a religious group, but when that group is receiving funding or resources directly from a public school (funded by taxpayer dollars), the burden to serve “all comers” is much more substantial….

Why Kaepernick’s Refusal to Stand Is an Act of Religious Dissent

By Benjamin E. Zeller

…considered debates over flag burning and desecration, and the uncountable dollars and hours spent in court battles over what is “only” a piece of cloth. Or he might have invoked Kaepernick, who dared to challenge the meaning of the flag and in doing so challenged the “reality” behind it. So as some wonder why Kaepernick couldn’t just stand up quietly during the national anthem, or why the response to his actions was so heated and even hateful, Du…

Marriage Equality Coming To Taiwan In Spite of Religious Objectors?; Anti-Gay Ruling Sought By Indonesian Islamists Threatens Women & Poor Couples; LDS Church Launches New ‘Mormon and Gay’ Site; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…or example, Bromley said, it could be used to argue that US HIV-prevention dollars cannot go to organizations that advocate against LGBT rights, such as the religious organizations that ran HIV programs in Uganda while simultaneously campaigning for a sweeping Anti-Homosexuality Act enacted in 2014. (It was later struck down by the country’s Constitutional Court.) Some major foreign aid contractors are faith based, including the evangelical Christ…