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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...

August 2014

August 13, 2014

Primary Sources

The question that kept me awake one night last week was this: what are the...

August 04, 2014

And After The Fire, A Still Small Voice

Elijah the Tishbite stood on Mount Horeb, where Moses had stood centuries earlier to receive...

July 2014

July 28, 2014

Book Review: Confessing History

John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller, eds. Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and...

July 21, 2014

Happy Pioneer Day

The following are excerpts from a lecture on “Mormonism and the American West” that I...

July 13, 2014

A few things you should read before you make up your mind about Hobby Lobby

I suppose this post is about a week and a half late, given the short...

July 10, 2014

The Problem with Automatically Changing Women’s Last Names and What to do if it Happens to You

When I got married in May, I had long since decided to keep the name...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

A Safe Space to Turn for Peace

As a kid growing up in New York City, I was blessed to have safe...

June 16, 2014

It’s Not About Questions—and it is

In piecing together the sobering events over the last week, one of the most common...

June 15, 2014

On Church Discipline for Dissenting Groups

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Public Square 2014 Summer Series: Conversations on Religious Trends....

June 13, 2014

Who Calls Apostasy? Picking up the Pieces When Local Leaders Fail

Kate Kelly is not my favorite Mormon feminist, and Ordain Women is a movement I've...

May 2014

May 26, 2014

Feed My Lambs

[Image courtesy of the Liahona Children's Foundation] “The Church may or may not be...

May 21, 2014

Sneakers and Salvation

Several years ago, I took a trip to Egypt with a group of students at...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Mormons and the FBI – A Bleg

The Associated Press reported in the early 1980s that “The CIA does some of its...

March 2014

March 24, 2014

No More Strangers

One of my most familiar childhood religious memories is waking up at the end of...

March 07, 2014

On religious freedom and discrimination

With the recent proposed amendment to Arizona’s religious freedom law, Facebook has fed me a...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

The Decline of Something Called “Religion”

Stories of Decline Perry Miller’s exhaustive intellectual histories of Puritan theology were published back...

February 10, 2014

On Mormon Marriage Anxiety

I was 27 when I got married. That was well after most of my friends,...

February 05, 2014

Scrap It: An Historian Contemplates Her Imaginary Photo Albums

People approach personal recording keeping in different ways. Historian Rachel Cope, who clearly chose the...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

How Old Almanacs Help to Explain the “Nones”

A couple of weeks ago, I was at the Huntington Library looking at almanacs from...

January 20, 2014

March Global Mormon Studies Madness!

Making up for lost time, Spring 2014 will see a flurry of global Mormon...

January 18, 2014

If Your Sexual Thoughts Were Like My Asthma

When my mother was at BYU in the 70's, her bishop came into Relief Society...

December 2013

December 16, 2013

On the Virtues of Old People

Among Mormons, there is a classic short film produced by the LDS Church many years...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

A Song for the Body Electric

A Song for the Body Electric When we moved from Boston to Salt Lake City,...

November 07, 2013

Diary of a Single Mormon Female: A Review

Few people are brave enough to publish their diary, and yet that is what Aleesa...

October 2013

October 16, 2013

Mormons as Christians; Christians as Mormons

In the nineteenth sixties and seventies, an "anti-cult" movement emerged in America, assailing religious movements...

October 14, 2013

Beyond Family: Women’s Leadership in the LDS Church

A recent flurry of debate and discussion over the issue of women’s roles in...

October 11, 2013

Thinking Historically as a Christian (And/Or a Mormon)

This last weekend, during the Saturday morning session of General Conference for the Church of...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

Mormonism and the Christianity Police

This post is a slightly modified reprint of an earlier post. I am adding it...

September 26, 2013

On Housework

Martha Hughes Cannon (1857–1932) wrote to her friend Barbara Replogle in 1884, “’Tis not the...