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February 2016

February 22, 2016

Some of Us Should Stay

Not too long ago, I wrote in the Salt Lake Tribune that I feel an...

February 12, 2016

Notes on Vaginas

Here at the college at which I am still, remarkably, employed, students are performing a...

February 10, 2016

Peter Brook and Coldplay’s Orientalist Weekend

First, let me say that even while I concede that I know next to...

February 01, 2016

Not the ‘Why’ but the ‘What’ of the Western Wall

"Eff the ineffable", wrote Terry Eagleton in an attempt to figure out Samuel Beckett's work....

January 2016

January 22, 2016

How Did Ruth Get Past the Guards?

By all that is holy, Ruth should never have left Moab. I know, I know:...

January 11, 2016

Guest Post: The Tyranny of Rule(s)

Blog Editor's Note: Dear readers, all seven of you—On account of a confrontation this past...

January 01, 2016

The Most Religious Song in the Songbook

Name the most genuinely religious song in the songbook that the LDS church has approved...

December 2015

December 19, 2015

A Dis-Christian Nativity

Taxation, some say, started it all. Or a census. Augustus, some say, decreed an accounting....

November 2015

November 30, 2015

If God Does Not Die

Nietzsche, famously or infamously towards the end of the nineteenth century, declared the death of...

November 06, 2015

Do Not Suffer the Children

As of yesterday, assuming the news stories are right, if you’re three days old, innocent,...

November 04, 2015

I Love Sects!

Fellow LDS-Mormon Patheos blogger James Faulconer has argued that people in the LDS-Mormon community should...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

Don’t Let Go and Let God

One way to dismiss the story and all that it says about how to get...

October 06, 2015

Who’s at the Center? Who’s in Crisis?

O, Faithful of the Great Pushback, take note of Pope Francis before Congress. Selecting four...

October 02, 2015

Eve and Adam and Reason in the Mormon Temple

The fundamental myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition has a distinctly patriarchal tone to it, justifying...

September 2015

September 20, 2015

The Tao of Hula

What we really need to do, as a modern, scientifically-enlightened, empirically-minded, rational society is ban...

September 15, 2015

Lose Your Religion, And Follow Me

At one of the several crucial moments of the narrative, Jesus tells his followers that...

September 03, 2015

God’s Law Does Change

I've been hearing a lot about "God's Law" in my local congregation, recently. Particularly the...

August 2015

August 17, 2015

Counter-Culture PR

I don't know anything about “Fair Mormon”, apart from the fact that whoever came up...

August 05, 2015

Mormonism’s Future: Surprising Plurality

(Editor's Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of...

August 03, 2015

BSA, LDS, and the Jesus-y Margin

My first inclination upon hearing that the LDS church plans to reexamine its relationship with...

July 2015

July 09, 2015

Please Don’t Tolerate Me

I'm traveling in India these days, which means that I'm enjoying a lovely respite from...

June 2015

June 25, 2015

Sweep Out the Confederate Flag

We bought our first home, here in Memphis, more than a decade ago, and we celebrated...

June 17, 2015

God’s Body Just Isn’t What It Used to Be

One of the things that keeps Mormonism from being Christian is its dogmatic attachment to...

June 05, 2015

Archimedes’ Divine Lever

Archimedes is reported to have said, lo, these more-than-two-millennia ago, that if he were given...

May 2015

May 22, 2015

The Boy Scouts of a Better America

Word has come from none other than Robert Gates that the Boy Scouts of America...

May 08, 2015

Self-less Giving and the Corporate Self

We finally have empirical evidence that Jesus knew everything. The son of god, of course,...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Mike Pence Wears Pink Panties

The Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, or RFRA's, that the states are adopting, pell-mell, have the...

April 17, 2015

Thee and Thou and Little Lambs Eat Ivy

Anyone—Mormon or otherwise—who has sat through any LDS Mormon church services conducted in English has...

April 04, 2015

Outsourcing My Easter

I do my exercises faithfully. Not only because I had back surgery fifteen years...

March 2015

March 23, 2015

What the Heck is a Platypus?

In the mid-eighteenth century, Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist, figured out what mammals are: hairy,...

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