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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,...

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...

July 2016

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...

February 2016

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....

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...

October 2015

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 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...

May 2015

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...