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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 15, 2016

The Conference Enigma: a little play

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

February 2016

February 12, 2016

Notes on Vaginas

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

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...

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,...

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...

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 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...

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,...

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...

November 2014

November 23, 2014

The Unbearable Lightness of Rasa

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

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...