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While it’s great that Obama’s faith-based program addresses nonbelief, without the proper vigilance we’ll simply get superficial “tolerance” of secularists with an assumed theistic backstory.
Markets and Morality: Faith-Based Investment Group Profiles Polluters
Religious investors have often served as an early warning system, alerting businesses to ethical or environmental issues that affect society and the planet—and eventually the bottom line. The latest issue? Climate risk.
Restoring Dignity: The Employee Free Choice Act
The Employee Free Choice Act will go a long way toward expanding workplace democracy. Progressive religious leaders, whatever their disagreements might be, must come together to support the restoring of dignity to those who labor honestly.
Women Are Not “Pork”
The Democratic leadership caved in to conservative Republicans on family planning this week. The opposition for the religious right goes back to the historic rupture between sex and reproduction in the 20th century.
Can Islam Save The Economy?
In the midst of a global financial crisis one sector has yet to suffer the fate of the rest. Islamic finance, or Sharia-compliant banking, offers strict moral guidelines for dealing with money. Trading debt and risky speculation are off-limits, as is investment in immoral enterprises like gambling, prostitution, and war profiteering. It might be time to get the muftis on the phone.
RD10Q: Wage Theft in America: Why Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid
A leading worker justice organizer writes a book on how and why employers are stealing from the workforce, to the tune of billions every year.
RD News Round-Up: November 17, 2008: New surveys on the faith vote; Rev. Moon's plans for the UN; Jews to Mormons: lay off the dead; plus Jill Stanek, Tom Minnery and Joel Hunter
The Law-less Legacy of Global Capital
John Law was a murderer, a gambler, and an economic advisor to kings. What does his story, and the tale of the first great market panic, have to tell us about today's financial crisis?
The Day After: A Call to Action for Worker Justice
People are lined up at soup kitchens in congregations across the country. Religious communities, the first line of support for struggling families, need to be be vocal in the call to improve conditions for the American worker.
Top Ten Religious Right groups rake in more than half-a-billion dollars; Churches v. Christian Zionism; Bush turns to faith-based groups to bail US out of health care crisis; Saving the GOP from itself?
RDBook: Bernard Avishai's The Hebrew Republic
Political economist Bernard Avishai thinks that Israel's best hope for peace and a bright future is to embrace European-style secular democracy, integrating its Arab citizens into a business-driven globalized economy.
Connecticut legalizes gay marriage; Religious voters favor Obama; Blame the Jews for Wall Street; Gay marriage ‘worse than radical Islam,’; McCain to Gays: Thanks, but no thanks.
This is not a Religion Column: Biblical Capitalism
The roots of the economic crisis tap directly into a movement within American fundamentalism. Much has been made of Palin's Pentecostalism but her links to The Family go unnoticed.
When rapacious quasi-capitalists start acting like there is no tomorrow, that’s when the economy hits the fan.
A major union's Labor Day concession to Muslim workers sparks anti-immigrant outrage in a Tennessee town...
A religio-immigration-labor story, the Midwest, and Orthodox Jews. Oh my.
Dispatches from the Workplace: Rabbis for Worker Justice
A controversial new ruling from an up and coming rabbi in Conservative Judaism charts a course for a greater focus on worker justice. Several of its recommendations coincide with crucial legislation favored by the American labor movement...
Steven Greenhouse’s engaging new book exposes the crisis of low-wage work.