Will Dems Find Moxie to Resist Immoral GOP Tax Plan?
For almost ten years now, the folks at Sojourners and other progressive evangelical outfits have…
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You Are Being Organized by Something: 10 Questions for Kathryn Lofton on Consuming Religion
What inspired you to write Consuming Religion? Restlessness. After I finished my first book, I…
Read MoreCorporate Personhood Was a Radical Notion… In the 11th Century
According to one common reaction to Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the Court set a precedent…
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Hobby Lobbying: How Corporations Got Consciences
The Green family who initiated the Hobby Lobby case may be evangelical Christians, but Hobby…
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A Report from America’s “Sacrifice Zones”
“I wanted to write a book that looked at what happened when you forced individuals and communities, as well as the environment, to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace. The best way to do this was to go to the nation’s sacrifice zones, those poorest pockets of the country that had been exploited first, to show what happens when you allow the marketplace to rule.”
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Who’s to Blame for BP?
Even as the disaster in the Gulf continues to unfold so do our efforts to understand how and why it happened. But while concerns over environmental degradation and the billions in lost revenue occupy much of the news, the question of responsibility remains central. And who is…
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Welcome to the (New) Gilded Age: Supreme Court Delivers the Goods to Corporations
The Supreme Court struck down a century of regulations limiting corporate money in politics, clearing the way for a new Gilded Age. In the original Gilded Age (which inspired the Social Gospel movement), opposition was galvanized by a strong anti-corporate Christianity. Where’s the religious opposition now?
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Better Gay at Work Than Gay in Church
A new report on the state of the workplace for LGBT Americans shows that the Fortune 500 is way ahead of churches when it comes to equal rights. In some cases it’s easier to be gay at Chevron than in church on Sunday morning.
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