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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 22, 2017

WE Does Not Include YOU

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

May 2017

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...

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 09, 2016

Utah: A Shining City on a Hill

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

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...

June 2016

June 06, 2016

Amurrica’s Anti-Christian Prosperity Gospel

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

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Time to Say ‘Mormonist’

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

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 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....

November 2015

November 06, 2015

Do Not Suffer the Children

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

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...

August 2015

August 17, 2015

Counter-Culture PR

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

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...

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,...

December 2014

December 22, 2014

Americanism: Our Common Cult

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

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 03, 2014

Mormon Theocracy, Or the Tribalization of Amurrica

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