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August 2015

August 25, 2015

2 Girls For Every Boy: The Unpleasant Reality for Utah Mormon Singles

The Beach Boys sang about it, and now it’s coming true here in the...

August 24, 2015

Jon McNaughton, the Obama Era’s Most Significant Artist

Gaze upon the works of Jon McNaughton, the most important painter of our time.* Undoubtedly,...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

Religious and Gay: A Catholic-Mormon Dialogue (Part 3 of 3)

This is part 3 of a 3-part discussion with Alex Griffin and Eve Tushnet. In...

July 16, 2015

Religious and Gay: A Catholic-Mormon Dialogue (Part 2 of 3)

This is part 2 of a 3-part discussion with Alex Griffin and Eve Tushnet. In...

July 13, 2015

Religious and Gay: A Catholic-Mormon Dialogue (Part 1 of 3)

Sometime at church in the past two weeks, local Mormons leaders across the country read...

January 2015

January 12, 2015

Doubting at Zion’s Gate

Through happenstance, two of my recent reads synergistically centered on doubt and the thresholds of...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

I Even Remain Alone?: Reflections on Eve Tushnet’s “Gay and Catholic”

About two years ago Ralph Hancock, a BYU professor of political philosophy, met with the...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

INTERNATIONAL MORMON STUDIES: MORE HELP WANTED!

This is a report AND a call for input going forward from the directors...

June 2014

June 12, 2014

Second Life and the Second Estate

From a hillside in Missouri, one can look out upon a relatively nondescript valley verdant...

February 2014

February 24, 2014

Mormons and Basketball in the Philippines

“There are good Mormons, rogue Mormons, drunk Mormons, polygamy Mormons. But one thing they all...

January 2014

January 22, 2014

The “Value” of the Book of Mormon

As part of a project I’m currently at work on, I’ve been reading as systematically...

November 2013

November 13, 2013

Apologetics Again—But This Time with Feeling

Violent, sudden, and calamitous revolutions are the ones that accomplish the least. While they may...

November 04, 2013

In Praise of Cafeteria Mormonism

It was both troubling and fascinating (something like watching a car wreck) to witness the...

October 2013

October 07, 2013

A New Accent on Religious Freedom

Last month the LDS Church reinforced its advocacy of religious freedom by further expanding the...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

Why LDS Women Will Not Be Ordained to the Priesthood

Over the last year, a small but growing movement within the LDS church has emerged...

September 18, 2013

We Are Special!: Religion, Historical Memory, and Regional Identity

Over the last week I’ve been re-reading Carol F. Karlsen’s book on witchcraft in Puritan...

September 05, 2013

Why Mormon Feminism Should Be About Men Too

Anyone who has spent time in a feminist Mormon housewives discussion forum knows how frequently...

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 23, 2013

Be a Man

Every summer, our family spends some time at a cabin in rural Utah and attend...

July 10, 2013

The Humanist’s Book of Mormon

The past decade has witnessed a remarkable surge of interest in the Book of Mormon---or...

May 2013

May 20, 2013

Joseph Smith the Seeker and Same-sex Marriage: The Community of Christ Negotiating Change

The Community of Christ’s April 2013 USA National Conference in Independence, Missouri resoundingly approved...

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...

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 18, 2013

Conferences at the Crossroads of Mormonism

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

March 11, 2013

How Mormons Read the Bible

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

March 04, 2013

How Conference Comes to Hong Kong

In one month, General Conference will come again to the red brick building with the...

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...