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June 2017

June 25, 2017

Toxic Theology: Learning Doesn’t Matter

Another installment of "Toxic Theology". Some things are just too poisonous to leave alone. By...

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 15, 2017

How to Not Be a Misogynist

Guys. Here’s my quick 'Don't Misogyny' list. If you have had any interest during the...

December 2016

December 23, 2016

Mormons Stormin’ the Inauguration

The LDS church will send its famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir to perform in the inauguration...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

Mormon Temple Recommends and LDS Sectarianism

This past weekend I published an op-ed in the Salt Lake Tribune. The piece garnered...

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...

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...

September 2016

September 06, 2016

Uzzah’s Mormon Wish List

It was a dark and stormy night, y’all. The phone rang, and Celia called to...

May 2016

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 25, 2016

“Letter to a CES Director” and Highlander Syndrome

I haven't read the entire text of Jeremy Runnells' Letter to a CES Director. I...

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,...

March 2016

March 23, 2016

Mormon, the Musical

Welcome to another episode of “The Most Religious Thing”. We learned in our last episode...

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...

January 2016

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,...

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 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...

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...

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 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 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...