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?
A California court upholds summary judgement in ACSI v. Stearns, rules that the University did not discriminate unfairly when denying credit to students for particular high school courses.
Jacqueline Small, a graduate of Swarthmore College and an M.Div. student at Princeton Theological Seminary, is an intern at the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual.
Benjamin J. Dueholm is pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church in Wauconda, Illinois, and author of Sacred Signposts: Words, Water, and Other Acts of Resistance, forthcoming from Eerdmans.
Notwithstanding Haiti’s Christian character, the Haitian personality, if there is one, has been nurtured by a Vodou civilization that any responsible treatment of the subject must disentangle from the Western world’s manufactured “voodoo” culture.