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August 2013

August 12, 2013

LL Cool J, Accidental Mormon?

Last week, I logged onto facebook to see my newsfeed crowded with excited links from...

July 2013

July 19, 2013

Old Stories and Familiar Tropes: Anti-Catholicism and the Female Body in Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’

In her post “Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’: An Eternal Return” earlier this week, my colleague Susanna...

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...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

“Matt and Me (But Mostly Me)”*: A Conversation about _The Book of Mormon_ on Broadway

The Book of Mormon, the musical comedy co-written by South Park creators Trey Parker and...

April 08, 2013

On Historical Sources, Mormonism, and the Pinterests of the new General Young Women’s President

I've spent the last three weeks carefully handling 18th century manuscripts housed in some of...

March 2013

March 11, 2013

How Mormons Read the Bible

A little more than a week ago, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...

February 2013

February 20, 2013

*Angels in America* at 20: Revisiting Tony Kushner’s Millennium — and His Mormons — in the 21st Century

2013 is the 20th anniversary of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize for his groundbreaking play Angels...

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...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

Mending a Fractured World

In his Bancroft Prize-winning book, Age of Fracture, Daniel Rodgers tells the story of how, following...

December 2012

December 19, 2012

Finding a Bit of Comfort in the Image of Mormonism That Americans Most Respect

About a week ago, I decided to write my next post on a recurrent popular...

December 14, 2012

Pants, Doctrine, and Culture, and Why Maybe We Shouldn’t Worry

And the Mormon Moment grabs the spotlight again- with Pantspocalypse! A nutshell attempt: Mormon feminist...

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...

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...

September 03, 2012

An International Snapshot of Mormonism

Mormonism has been called an (if not the) American religion. To go further, I think that...

August 2012

August 01, 2012

There's a lot of top 5 lists out there listing the best books on Mormonism....

June 2012

June 04, 2012

A Review of the Cover of Jon Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven: A story of violent faith.

Author’s note: Yes, I’ve read the book. Canaan Mountain is almost unbearably symbolic. It’s a...