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August 2017

August 29, 2017

Racism Is Not About Feeling

Plaudits to David Brooks for "How Trump Kills the GOP", articulating from some position within...

August 16, 2017

This is the GOP’s Bloody Legacy

We sit, together, in a moment of terror, brought about by racist murder and the...

July 2017

July 28, 2017

The Moral Bankruptcy of the Boy Scouts

The Boy Scouts of America is an antiquated cohort of corrupt, close-minded, selfish, vindictive, and...

June 2017

June 25, 2017

Toxic Theology: Learning Doesn’t Matter

Another installment of "Toxic Theology". Some things are just too poisonous to leave alone. By...

June 22, 2017

WE Does Not Include YOU

LDS Mormon critics who insist that “testimony meeting is not the place to come out”...

June 04, 2017

Toxic Theology: There Are No Coincidences

In its quest to infuriate by greater and greater degrees, this blog presents Toxic Theology,...

May 2017

May 15, 2017

How to Not Be a Misogynist

Guys. Here’s my quick 'Don't Misogyny' list. If you have had any interest during the...

May 12, 2017

The Methodical Retreat from Goodness

Around the time #LittlePrincePumpkin managed to reach one hundred days in office, there was a...

March 2017

March 26, 2017

Forgiveness Is Not Nice

For outsiders, the nineteenth-century roots of Mormonism were a happy exploitation of the still-young ideals...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Mormons Do Not Just Believe

I've seen the Broadway musical twice. I'm on record in The Commercial Appeal, a Memphis...

January 2017

January 14, 2017

What Will We Lose to Win?

Sometimes, losing is the best strategy for winning. And ethics be damned. Radiolab, a podcast...

December 2016

December 31, 2016

2017 Is the Future

Many of us will file this past year under “death”, for the passing of a...

December 23, 2016

Mormons Stormin’ the Inauguration

The LDS church will send its famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir to perform in the inauguration...

December 12, 2016

Generation Snowflake

The Intermedia tells us that the young generation, the millennial generation, is comprised of a...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

Mormon Temple Recommends and LDS Sectarianism

This past weekend I published an op-ed in the Salt Lake Tribune. The piece garnered...

November 09, 2016

Utah: A Shining City on a Hill

I was wrong. I wrote just last week that the 2016 election would show, finally,...

November 04, 2016

Not a Christian Nation

There’s nothing happy about this year’s Presidential Dolt-Fest. But one possibility that this electoral disgrace...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

Where to Go? Destinations and Mormon Shame

I’m coming a bit late to the party. I was on an international jaunt during...

September 2016

September 06, 2016

Uzzah’s Mormon Wish List

It was a dark and stormy night, y’all. The phone rang, and Celia called to...

August 2016

August 08, 2016

Hillary Is a Protest Vote

I would vote for any one of the people on the following list, were any...

July 2016

July 22, 2016

America Is Great

I woke up this morning to find armies of people decrying the apocalypse which he-whose-name-will-not-be-spoken...

July 13, 2016

Real Religion Doesn’t Know

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Faith and Reason....

June 2016

June 26, 2016

The Lose-Your-Self Jesus

A medieval reading of Mark 8 justified self-inflicted suffering. Conventional readings of the chapter these...

June 06, 2016

Amurrica’s Anti-Christian Prosperity Gospel

Amurrica is the land of opportunity, we say. And we measure the realization of that...

May 2016

May 20, 2016

Religion’s Placebo Effect(s)

If you have Irritable Bowel Syndrome—and reading blogposts can give it to you if you...

May 09, 2016

Don’t Stay in the Boat: the Sea of Mormon Stories

Jeffrey Holland is angry, nay, furious, at people who leave the LDS church.** It's hard to...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

“Letter to a CES Director” and Highlander Syndrome

I haven't read the entire text of Jeremy Runnells' Letter to a CES Director. I...

April 15, 2016

The Conference Enigma: a little play

The Conference Enigma A Little Play (A dark, silent sitting room. Carpet. Wood shelves. Books. Cozy,...

March 2016

March 23, 2016

Mormon, the Musical

Welcome to another episode of “The Most Religious Thing”. We learned in our last episode...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Time to Say ‘Mormonist’

For good or for bad, the term Islamist is now part of the English lexicon,...

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