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Buddha as Scientist, Entrepreneur & Self-Improvement Guru

By Michael Schulson

…t read this story,” he explains, “it was obvious to me that this was about business. It was about leadership.” Later, Colonna, who works as a coach for entrepreneurs, recasts the Buddha as the ultimate coach for (you guessed it) entrepreneurs: To me dharma teaches us to live in that gap of hope without attachment. To believe that you can take on an entrenched institution or power structure, knowing that 99.99% of the enterprises fail and you get u…

Using Science to Diss Religion

By Evan Derkacz

…hat the study consisted of “400 students drawn from introductory economics classes at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan.” That’s economics students from a college in a province that’s over 80% white. A province in which .7% of the population is comprised of religious non-Christians. But then how sexy is the headline “Among Christian economics students at a homogeneous Canadian university, those who claim that religion is important, in cont…

Note to GOP Voters: “Political Freedom” Comes With Social Responsibility

By Marcia Pally

…want to make government somewhat smaller, reducing taxes and de-regulating business and banking to prod growth and jobs. Or they can vote for candidates who pledge to make government, as Rand Paul said in last week’s debate, “really really small.” Paul lambasted even Marco Rubio’s support for the child tax credit on the grounds that it’s “liberal spending.” Oddly enough, however, for the party of conservative values, a prime principle of conservat…

U.S. Christianity is Dead, Long Live U.S. Christianity

By Richard Flory

…t-of-touch institutions that seem more interested in keeping themselves in business than in serving the needs and desires of members and (potential) attendees, people will continue to opt out of them. From my vantage point, the current disarray in American religious identity and participation is less a story of people “losing their religion” than one of dissatisfaction with the institutional options available to them. What does this mean for the f…

Why Christian Fundamentalism Is Still a Big Deal in U.S. Politics, And How It Got That Way

By Eric C. Miller

…ndorsing political candidates, and the religious exemption claims of local business owners. A few of these struggles make national headlines—the recent firestorm over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act comes immediately to mind—but most do not. Nevertheless, they are the essence of fundamentalist political engagement. Just as Christian fundamentalists emerged by idealizing local churches as temples and fortresses against oppressive denomi…

Was Prof Wrong to Ask Students to Not Thank God?

By Hollis Phelps

…ance at ECU, said, “If he’s an atheist and he has those beliefs that’s his business, but he has no business telling our students what to believe.” As anyone who’s spent time in eastern North Carolina knows, being called an atheist is no small matter. Incidentally, Hvastkovs regularly attends church. ECU was fairly quick to distance itself from Hvastkovs, overturning his putative “ban” on religious speech. In an email to chemistry majors, ECU provo…

Sex Comes For the Archbishop: Rembert Weakland’s Unflinching Memoir

By Mary E. Hunt

…ne. Consensual, Legal, But Still Out of Bounds Memoirs are tricky literary business. This one is no exception. The opening and closing pieces deal with what was undoubtedly Weakland’s most difficult personal experience, the aftermath of a 1979 sexual liaison with a man in his thirties, Paul Marcoux. In 1997, Marcoux initiated legal proceedings against the Archbishop for what he called sexual abuse, holding a 1980 letter that Weakland had written a…

Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012

By Peter Laarman

…t its members sure as heck don’t want religion getting into their personal business via legislation or government policy. Add to these “nones” the increasing number of Americans who do self-identify as religious but who decline to vote the way certain popinjay enforcers would have them vote—who vote instead on bread-and-butter issues—and you have a pretty significant sea-change from the last few election cycles. One can imagine the used-car busine…

“Godly Or Bad?”: The Return of Ted Haggard

By J. Terry Todd

…back to Louisiana, where his ministry began, all the while developing his business plan for cut-rate life insurance. As for Haggard’s marriage, things have improved, thanks to therapy and to Gayle’s patience and forgiveness. Recently, if you’ve cared to notice, we’ve learned even more from news reports and interviews leading up to the premier of Trials. Haggard, now fifty-two, is back home in Colorado Springs, living with Gayle and their five chi…

Wait Until You’re Denied Service, Federal Court Tells LGBT Mississippians Challenging “Religious Freedom” Law

By Sunnivie Brydum

…equally under the law were actually attempts to oppress good, God-fearing business-owners and citizens. “Good laws like Mississippi’s protect freedom and harm no one,” claimed Kevin Theriot, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the well-funded Christian legal group representing Gov. Bryant in the cases. “The sole purpose of this law is to ensure that Mississippians don’t live in fear of losing their careers or their businesses sim…