Megarich Megachurches
Everything about Nigerian Pentecostalism is huge — the churches, the checkbooks, and the political clout.
19603 Articles by: Enver Motala
Enver Motala is an associate of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT) at the University of Johannesburg and of the Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training at the Nelson Mandela University.
Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair!
Meet the princely imam financing neoliberal development in Central Asia.
Richer Than God
Sophisticated Wall Street tactics have blessed the LDS Church with billions.
Why New Atheism Failed
The New Atheists had reactionary politics and a distorted view of science, but they owe their demise to a more fundamental flaw in their ideology: religion can’t explain all the world’s problems.
Learning From Pat Robertson
Once marginal and reviled, evangelical Christians became a vital political bloc in the 1980s thanks to resolute organizing.
The Epoch Times’ Unholy Journalism
How a new religion’s pro-Trump rag became one of the world’s fastest-growing newspapers.
A Megachurch for the Glamorous
Blessed with celebrity congregants, the evangelical Hillsong Church was poised to take America by storm before it fell prey to sex scandals. Now megachurch America is following its blue-state blueprint.
The Divine Right
Studying the Holy Scriptures with the leading lights of the GOP.
Issue 53: Misery Index
Crunching the numbers on the class war.
Israel’s Useful Idiots
With the war in Gaza, it seems only one side’s blood and pain gets much attention in the US media.
God Complex
Evangelical Christians are major supporters of Israel — because they think its existence heralds the Second Coming of Christ.
A New Giant of Labor Emerges
Episode 1 of Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO explores key developments that led to the CIO’s founding: the split with the AFL, the broken promises of welfare capitalism, the National Industrial Recovery Act, and the mass strikes of 1934.
The Big Red Hymn Book
Some working-class anthems are sung to the tunes of Christian hymns.
The Epoch of the Epoch Times
Their business is attacking China and promoting right-wing political tropes — and business is booming.
Prosperity Gospel
The Bible’s actual takes on wealth are not what you might think.
A Biden Envoy to the Pacific Had Major Conflicts of Interest
When Joseph Yun was the chief US negotiator in the Pacific, he also led talks that are likely to deliver a lucrative advantage to the consulting firm where he currently works and the powerful defense contractor it represents in the region.
Netanyahu Has Brought Us to the Brink of War With Iran
The terrifying escalation of attacks between Israel and Iran is a predictable result of Benjamin Netanyahu’s clear desire to start a war with Iran — enabled, like everything else Netanyahu has done since October 7, by Joe Biden.
Édouard Louis: Your Identity Isn’t Private Property
Author Édouard Louis was asked if he thought someone lacking his experience of homophobia could stage a theater adaptation of one of his books. In his response, he argues against a restrictive idea of identity as a property some of us own.