President Obama has been on a religious roll this month. I can’t wait for it to be over. First came the “National Prayer Breakfast,” with the touching anecdote that “you come to understand what President... Read More

Amazing news emerged from Russia last Friday. According to the Associated Press, “A Russian regional court has ruled that an Orthodox Church diocese can repay part of an outstanding debt in prayers rather than money.”... Read More

Common decency took another sucker punch from the God industry last month in a case decided in California. Late in her pregnancy, Rebecca Chamorro and her doctor agreed that immediately after delivering her third child... Read More

I drink a fair amount of wine, much of which I purchase at my local convenience store. Suppose I show up there one day and find the wine section replaced by something less pleasant, like... Read More

A couple of weeks ago, we observed National Religious Freedom Day, which occurs on the anniversary of the enactment of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. That’s the sole legislative achievement Thomas Jefferson asked to... Read More

Last week we looked at increasing competition from Japanese Rent-a-Monks, decreasing competition in the Israeli coffee industry, the lucrative refugee industry, and the modern-day sale of indulgences. Here are a few more interesting trends: Steal... Read More

Last spring I wrote a piece called How Religion Makes Its Money, touching on a variety of innovative ways in which a God industry with nothing genuine to sell manages to rake in the billions—everything... Read More