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March 2015

March 10, 2015

Confessions of a Hindu Mormon

What keeps me warmly Mormon through the long nights of cold, cutting dogma and bad...

February 2015

February 28, 2015

Heretics and Other Insiders

If Mormonism is a heresy, it’s only a Christian heresy. Which means that Mormonism's very conflict...

February 13, 2015

Of Oedipus and Excommunication

There’s a point in the play, before everything comes apart in disaster, in which the...

February 03, 2015

Brigham Young, the Interview

Perhaps it's an example of historical over-reach. But I'm reasonably comfortable suggesting that the LDS...

January 2015

January 16, 2015

Religious Freedom, Out and In

We twenty-first-century pundits have become rather accomplished at discussing freedom of religion and freedom from religion. There...

January 03, 2015

When Mormon Is Hip

My distinct impression is that Avi Steinberg hopes to be able to say in...

December 2014

December 24, 2014

The Ritual Transgression of Time

One of the more bizarre practices among world religions occurs annually among a small group...

December 22, 2014

Americanism: Our Common Cult

Where are the bonfires? What we should see around the country these days are...

December 06, 2014

Fishing, Physics, and Devotion

"You're not a religious man?"It's a question of mild incredulity followed by a statement...

November 2014

November 29, 2014

On Xmas, Jesus Checked His Privilege

Here we now, as December comes upon us, open another Xmas season, to remind...

November 23, 2014

The Unbearable Lightness of Rasa

About a month ago, a rather extraordinary fellow named Saji Thomas contacted me about a...

November 08, 2014

The Death of Humanism in Our Religionless Future

Physicist Lawrence Krauss apparently suggested this past week that religion could disappear in a single...

November 03, 2014

Mormon Theocracy, Or the Tribalization of Amurrica

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Politics in the...

October 2014

October 26, 2014

Magic Underwear and the Fish Priests of Babylon

The Metropolitan Museum of Art describes the 7th century, BCE, cylinder seal as "Hero with...

October 19, 2014

“Pleasantville”‘s Mormon Eden

I had work to do, in my hotel room, while attending the great, big Conference...

October 11, 2014

God Comes in Flavors

Let’s talk about condiments. It turns out that spicy pickles reveal a lot about religion....

October 04, 2014

Meet the Neo-Orthodox Mormons

I'm going to break a sacred rule which I would, myself, insist my own students...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

Cohabitating in Utah

When U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups determined that Utah's constitutional ban on polygamy was unconstitutional last month,...

September 21, 2014

Religion Without Church

One tag line the Sunday Assembly has used reads: "All the best bits of church,...

September 15, 2014

Paradiddling All Over Religion

I don't have anything against atheists. Atheism makes perfect sense to me. Really. Half the...

September 10, 2014

I Believe in You, Rocky

Let's engage for a moment in what is sure to seem like a hopelessly pedantic...

September 09, 2014

Use Your Hands, Why Don’t You

If you've been following the ongoing identity crisis into which Mitt Romney's presidential aspirations tossed...

September 08, 2014

The Holy Trinity

Science and religion, we know, are incompatible. Theist fundamentalists tell us so. Atheist fundamentalists tell...

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