The Cross at the Bottom of the Sentence: Reading the ‘I Hate Satan’ Shirt
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The artwork is four words and a mark. In the supplied observation of the Sunday Field listing, the shirt reads I HATE SATAN in bold white lettering, with a small cross. That is the whole design. No distressed texture is described, no verse reference, […]
Inmatriculaciones: The 1946 Mortgage Law Clause, the 1998 Regulation That Opened It, and the 2015 Transition Rule That Closed It
On 26 June 2015, the Spanish Property Registry stopped accepting diocesan certifications as title for first registration of Catholic Church property. The substantive change came from Ley 13/2015, which rewrote article 206 of the Mortgage Law to cover only public administrations and public-law entities. But the outcome for any given file turned on a different […]
The Cape on the Cross: Reading the ‘Jesus Is My Superhero’ Shirt
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The artwork on the Jesus Is My Superhero Christian Kids Girls Boys Faith shirt consists of the words JESUS IS MY SUPERHERO set in comic-style lettering, with a gold cross wearing a red cape. That is the whole design. Everything below is an attempt […]
The Smiling Root Vegetables Are Doing Institutional Work
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner; what follows is an owner-authorized reading of the design, not an independent review. The artwork on the Let’s Root For Each Other And Watch Each Other Grow Garden shirt is a closed loop. The words LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER […]
The Problem With Coverage That Treats Religious Violence as Incomprehensible
Why “Incomprehensible” Is an Audit Failure, Not an Explanation When a religious body’s political violence is reported as an eruption of the inexplicable, the coverage has already stopped doing the work that matters. The framing treats the event as a rupture in an otherwise legible institutional order. It is not. In constitutional democracies, religious violence […]
How Religious Institutions Respond to Financial Scandal and Public Trust: An Audit of Five Playbooks
When the Securities and Exchange Commission fined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its investment manager $5 million in February 2023, the church issued a two-paragraph statement, paid, and carried on. No outside auditor arrived afterward. None could. The penalty covered a filing failure — thirteen shell companies had kept a portfolio […]
How Religious Institutions Respond to Financial Scandal and Public Trust
How Religious Institutions Respond to Financial Scandal and Public Trust When money goes missing inside a religious body, the response is rarely improvised. It was designed years earlier, in the legal instruments that fund and shield the institution: the church-tax statute that delivers state-collected revenue, the concordat that governs its banking, the endowment act that […]
How the SBC Executive Committee, the Diocese of Buffalo, and the Vatican Secretariat of State Each Built a Narrative Infrastructure — and What Investigators Need to Match It
On May 22, 2022, Guidepost Solutions delivered a 288-page report to the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee documenting that, for two decades, Executive Committee staff had maintained an internal list of accused ministers while publicly insisting no such centralized tracking existed. Six months earlier, on November 12, 2020, the Diocese of Buffalo filed for Chapter […]
Why Religious Liberty Debates Are Really About Who Has Institutional Power
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The Difference Between Religious Practice and Religious Identity Politics
Religious practice is the observable conduct of worship, ritual, education, charity, and communal discipline carried out by a religious body. Religious identity politics is the deployment of religious affiliation, symbols, or demographic claims to influence public policy, elections, administrative rulemaking, or constitutional interpretation. Adjacent concepts include political theology, institutional secularism, church-state bargaining, and confessional party […]