Faith-Based Investing Makes Up Ground in Gains and Convenience
Investing according to theological beliefs “is much easier to do now,” a wealth adviser said. It’s also as profitable as investing without a religious screen, and no more risky.
Faraz Ahmed, head of the online help platform at Google, said his portfolio for years was focused on stocks to avoid the Islamic prohibition against interest. But he worried that was too risky.Credit.Christie Hemm Klok for The New York Times
The intersection of faith and money can be complicated.
But investing by the tenets of your faith has become easier, and in many cases it’s neither less profitable nor more risky than investing without a religious screen. There are Islamic exchange-traded funds and real estate investment trusts, Jewish venture capital funds and Catholic separately managed accounts.
Buddhists from many cultures and communities gathered to repair the nation’s racial karma. The ceremony was held at a Los Angeles temple that had recently been vandalized in an arson attack.
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Opinion Columnist
There is a quote from Ralph Reed that I often return to when trying to understand how the right builds political power. “I would rather have a thousand school board members than one president and no school board members,” the former leader of the Christian Coalition said in 1996. School board elections are a great training ground for national activism. They can pull parents, particularly mothers, into politics around intensely emotional issues, building a thriving grass roots and keeping it mobilized.
You could easily write a history of the modern right that’s about nothing but schools. The battles were initially about race, particularly segregation and busing. Out of those fights came the Christian right, born in reaction to the revocation of tax exemptions for segregated Christian schools. As the Christian right grew, political struggles over control of schools became more explicitly religious. There
To the Editor:
Ross Douthat wonders what it will take for the meritocracy to find God. As he muses about different ways for intelligent, educated people, like himself, to find a path to God he doesn’t mention the historical role of religion, to make the world make sense, as well as the political one, to control society.
These days, when faced with a difficult problem, some may turn to prayer, but prayer did not give us the vaccines that are solving our latest existential problem. Instead, most rely on the many years of applying considered knowledge, problem-solving and wisdom for answers.
shutdown of social media and instant messaging platforms after days of violent anti-France protests.
In a notice to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, the Interior Ministry requested a complete blocking of Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube and Telegram until 3pm.
It gave no reason for the ban, but it came a day after French citizens
and companies in Pakistan were advised by their embassy to temporarily leave after
rallies led by an extremist party
paralysed large parts of the country and left two police officers dead. Pakistani security officials arrest TLP supporters blocking a road in Rawalpindi. EPA TLP supporters attacked police in Lahore. Reuters