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Paranoia and the Progressive Press: A Response to WaPo’s Religion Columnist

By Peter Montgomery

…ure over which the right kind of Christians are meant to have dominion are business, government, media, arts and entertainment, education, the family, and religion. (Some folks rearrange the categories a bit to explicitly include the military.) The language has been used by Pentecostal leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation, a group that sees itself creating a new church and an army of spiritual warriors who will hasten the return of Christ by t…

Greek Abbot Arrested for Role in Financial Scandal

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…d deals brokered by this same monastery rocked the Greek government. These business-savvy monks had traded some relatively worthless land by a lake in north-central Greece; land that had been ceded to them by a Byzantine emperor centuries before for extensive real estate holdings in Athens, costing the Greek government (and the taxpayers) an estimated $130 million or more. It was unclear how the thing had been arranged, but the scandal led to the…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…ne, Switzerland. He was invited on the two-week Jewish Federation’s Master class in Tel Aviv. He has lectured academically at a number of institutions including The New York Public Library, and is proud member of Writer’s Guild and Dramatist’s Guild. Today he lives in Los Angeles with his partner, is pitching a new Muslim family sitcom, and is rarely beat up. Parvesh Cheena recently starred in NBC’s comedy series Outsourced as Gupta and is the voi…

Republican Candidates Face Mythical Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…according to that book called “The Bible.” The military seems to be in the business of breaking that one on a fairly regular basis. I imagine if being “sinless” were a requirement for military service, then we wouldn’t have to worry about a defense budget since the military wouldn’t exist. Then, it’s Michele Bachmann’s turn. After being confronted by an 8-year-old boy (in South Carolina, no less) who told her his lesbian mommy didn’t need changing…

BYU Skinny Jean Controversy: Sexism, Sizeism, or Standards?

By Joanna Brooks

…had just come from a meeting with her LDS bishop to discuss congregational business. Apparently, the pants were not too tight to wear to a church meeting, but they still drew the enforcement attention of Testing Center employees. “There were skinny girls who were wearing tight pants who were getting admitted, but I’m curvy so my regular-fitting pants were a little bit tighter on me and he wouldn’t let me in. It was offensive and humiliating,” she…

Biblical Capitalism, Tony Perkins Edition

By Sarah Posner

…term behind the old English translation literally means “be occupied with business.” As with all parables, Jesus uses a common activity such as fishing or farming to provide a word picture with a deeper spiritual meaning. Occupied with multinational corporations and Wall Street hucksters? But here’s the kicker: The fact that Jesus chose the free market system as the basis for this parable should not be overlooked. When the nobleman returns, after…

Rent-Free Religion in New York’s Public Schools

By Katherine Stewart

…a youth ministry operating in what would soon become my son’s kindergarten classroom. The churches I attended enjoyed, after school hours and on weekends, ample space and furniture, newly painted walls, renovated bathrooms, and prime neighborhood real estate. And not one of them paid rent. I attended these churches while researching my forthcoming book on religion in public schools. Church-planting in public schools is just one of the dozens of re…

Will Ron Paul Win Iowa, and is the Catholic Church Discriminated Against?

By Sarah Posner

Last Friday, Business Insider politics editor Michael Brendan Dougherty and I talked GOP presidential politics, crisis pregnancy centers, and claims by Republicans like Darrell Issa, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops itself, that Catholics are being discriminated against by Obama administration policy. We taped before Herman Cain’s announcement of the suspension of his campaign, but Michael and I had agreed we weren’t going to talk abou…

Occupy Francis Lewis Boulevard

By Haroon Moghul

…, I’d like to redeem my tens of thousands of points, and force them out of business. I am their Lehman Brothers. But of course I wouldn’t do that, because then where would I eat? (Surprisingly, that logic also captures the bond market and the Eurozone crisis.) At the Subway, the man ahead of me was having a conversation with the cashier, something about Occupy Wall Street and the 99%. I expected it would be negative, but the whole experience actua…

Is Herman Cain’s Long-Running Minstrel Show Finally at an End?

By Anthea Butler

…is favorite hymns. According to Cain’s lawyer, this dalliance is no ones’ business, but I beg to differ. When the Republican race for the White House has descended into pledge signings, and public recitations of faith testimonies, then everything is on the table for scrutiny. The GOP has set morality as one of the rules for engagement since the late 1970’s. From the Republican perspective, there are some things, like divorce, that the party can s…