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July 2013

July 16, 2013

Dan Brown’s “Inferno”: An Eternal Return

I just finished reading Inferno, Dan Brown’s latest book. I’m no expert on Brown, though...

July 08, 2013

Hidden Cameras

“My mom is watching me,” my son’s six year-old friend Jared confided. Jared and my...

May 2013

May 06, 2013

Put Your Mormon Where Your Mouth Is: Gender, Sexuality, and The Second Great Commandment

During Conference in October 2007, at the end of General Relief Society President Julie Beck’s...

March 2013

March 18, 2013

Conferences at the Crossroads of Mormonism

When April comes to Independence, Missouri, Latter Day Saints will go to conference. Community of...

February 2013

February 25, 2013

Benediction

However improbably, on Thursday Pope Benedict XVI will retire. Much has been said and will...

February 18, 2013

On the Discourse of Dichotomy

Despite the fact that social scientists have yet to discover a single human society that...

February 04, 2013

“It’s like Methodism, only more”: Mormon Conversion and Narratives of the Great Apostasy

A couple of weeks ago in Sunday School, a middle-aged woman shared her conversion story...

December 2012

December 10, 2012

A Queer(er) Mormonism

Just when we thought the Romneys' exeunt might take the spotlights off, the Church thrust...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

Mormon Supplemental Worship

I've long held an interest in Mormons who supplement their weekly worship in Latter-day Saint...

November 21, 2012

The Elusive “Separate but Equal”

For better or worse, Mormonism is committed to a theology that enshrines sexual difference. Through...

November 11, 2012

Latter Day Conversions: Divided Families and Reconciled Relationships

As a twenty-year old leader in my college youth group, I was asked one day...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Mitt’s Coffee Ice Cream and Mormons in Bars: Is it Necessary to Avoid the Appearance of Evil?

About a month back I went to a bar for the first time in my...

October 08, 2012

One Miracle at a Time

While it may seem like small news that the LDS Church's rules for women's missionary...

September 2012

September 12, 2012

Are Mormons Christians? Yes…No…and Yes

At a new(ish) faculty potluck a few Saturdays ago, I mingled with other younger faculty...