WASHINGTON — Eight years ago, Hobby Lobby president Steve Green found a new way to express his Christian faith. His family’s $4 billion arts and craft chain was already known for closing stores on Sundays, waging a Supreme Court fight over birth control and donating tens of millions of ...
Who is the owner of Hobby Lobby? A preacher's son from a poor background, Hobby Lobby founder David Green opened his first crafts shop in 1970 with a $600 loan. His empire has grown from a single 300-square-foot store in Oklahoma City to 957 locations in 46 states, with $6.4 billio...
Today we went in to hobby lobby ( even though I wasn't going to again because of rude or unprofessional cashiers) I thought I would give them one more try. Staff on floor were friendly. We got to the register and the cashier started to ring the items up. I was with my husband and...
Hobby Lobby, whose president, Steve Green, has been collecting ancient artifacts since 2009 and is building an $800 million Bible museum in Washington, pleaded naivete in doing business with dealers in the Middle East. "The company was new to the world of acquiring these items and did not fu...
agents from Hobby Lobby's Washington, D.C.-based Museum of the Bible in 2019. In a complaint filed in May 2020, prosecutors said the 5-by-6-inch tablet is considered the property of the Iraqi government and should be returned. The arts and crafts company cooperated with the investigation...
the intent of displaying some of them in the Museum of the Bible, which is funded by the family of the arts and crafts chain's founder, David Green. The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet was seized by law enforcement officers in 2019, according to the DOJ, and Hobby Lobby agreed to its forfeiture...
A cuneiform tablet that is part of the Iraqi artifacts to be forfeited by the arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby. (Image credit: U.S. Attorney's Office Eastern District of New York) In its quest to amass a huge collection of biblical-era artifacts, Hobby Lobby made some big mistakes. ...
Hobby Lobby's CEO claimed not being able to own slaves violates his religious freedom. Rating: Labeled Satire About this rating In April 2020, the website American Buffoon published an article positing that David Green, CEO of Hobby Lobby arts and crafts stores, had reportedly made an appalling...
Hobby Lobby’s 2018 Independence Day advertisement is a reminder to the citizens of the land of the free and the home of the brave: “Blessed in the nation whose God is the Lord.” The national arts-and-crafts store is owned by the Green family – devout Christians. “From the beginning...
OKLAHOMA CITY -Thousands of ancient clay tablets, seals and other Iraqi archaeological objects that were smuggled into the U.S. and shipped to the head of arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby were returned to the Iraqi government on Wednesday. ...