Hell to the Naw!
RDPulpit: EFCA Needed to Stop Employers from Bearing False Witness
In addition to the direct consequences for workers and their families, one study estimated that for every worker fired, 395 coworkers got the message: attempt to organize and you’ll get fired too.
I Owe, Therefore I Am: Why Struggling Against the Banks is a Holy Obligation
When we take the approach that “all are sinners,” we confuse big-time criminality with small-time folly. This moral obfuscation allows the far greater misfeasance of corporate creditors to get airbrushed out of the picture.
Lutheran religious leader challenges the President to make good on his campaign pledges to fight for the eradication of extreme poverty.
RDPulpit: No Time for Lukewarm Economic Reform
New dimensions of criminality and injustice in the world of finance are revealed every day. So why are religious progressives—who know a thing or two about revelation—still posing, equivocating, and trimming around the edges while poor people suffer at the hands of a predator elite?
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.
Covering Religion in The New Year: The Atheist Bus And More
Rolling with the atheists in the UK; rich men, camels, and needle's eyes; Jews, Christians, and Gaza; the Obamas on Sunday mornings...all this and more on the religion writer's beat as the year begins.
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
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.
In Markets We Trust
From traders rubbing the testicles of the New York Stock Exchange's Golden Bull to the pantheon of saints, soothsayers and heretics who haunt it, the Free Market has earned its status as a cult.