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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 19, 2013

HELP WANTED! International Mormon Studies Book Project

As Mormonism continues to develop internationally, so too does the field of Mormon studies. More...

February 06, 2013

How Not To Think About Fundamentalism

One of my earliest mentors in the historical profession was a former member of Students...

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 23, 2013

Picketing Zion

Pants, now prayers. Some LDS feminists have raised the banner again and invited members to...

January 16, 2013

Why I Pray

Last August I discovered a little cancer in my eye, ocular melanoma. For a week...

January 09, 2013

Time Travel, American Style

In my classes, I argue that Christian worldviews, especially Protestant worldviews, have helped to shape...

January 07, 2013

Issues in Mormon Feminism

In 1993, high-ranking LDS leader Elder Boyd K. Packer famously warned that feminists, intellectuals, and...

December 2012

December 26, 2012

Asking Hard Questions of a God Who Weeps

A few months ago I learned a hard lesson about public questions and faith, when...

December 05, 2012

Tentative Notes Toward a Theory of Liberal Mormonism

In 1955, Louis Hartz published a famous and deeply influential book called The Liberal Tradition...

November 2012

November 26, 2012

Thanksgiving as a Political Arena

Perhaps because it always falls several weeks after elections, Thanksgiving is never very politicized. (Perhaps...

November 19, 2012

Mormons, Politics, Palestine

Once again, unfortunate developments in the Middle East appear to be undercutting what has been...

November 14, 2012

Appeal for a Shorter Work Week

Capitalism has much to recommend it. In a fallen world where every system is deeply...

November 09, 2012

Why Romney’s Loss is Good for Mormonism

The Mormon Moment died at approximately 11:00pm on Tuesday night. Mormonism, however, will be just...

November 07, 2012

Virtual Religion: Not So New?

I’ve been thinking a lot about virtual religious communities lately. Maybe the virtual religious communities...

November 05, 2012

The Heavenly Mommy Wars

Mormonism's notions of the divine realm are distinctive from traditional Christian views in primarily two...

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 29, 2012

What’ve we Learned?

Whichever way one is voting, I think that we can all be thankful together that...

October 22, 2012

The Politics of Jesus

Tonight we will hear two presidential candidates talk about United States foreign policy. Though it...

October 17, 2012

What Do Mormons and Southerners Have in Common?

The news has been full, this election cycle, of Mitt Romney’s evangelical problem. The conservative...

October 10, 2012

The International Church and the “Gospel Culture”

When all is said and done, the proceedings of this past weekend’s LDS General Conference...

October 03, 2012

An American Religion

In Tampa a few weeks ago twenty thousand Republicans bowed their heads and listened solemnly...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

Narrating the LDS Past: Past and Present

[Yesterday, I had the privilege of virtually attending the blogging event held in honor of...

September 24, 2012

Mormonism and the “Dark Night of the Soul”

The Mormon narrative seems to always start with a young boy who asked God a...

September 19, 2012

Of caffeine and covenants

About two weeks ago, the Church Newsroom said in response to NBC’s “Mormon in America”...

September 17, 2012

Serving Community Members

To my mind, a particularly beautiful aspect of religious community is the support it can...

September 10, 2012

From Oppressed Polygamous Slave to Homemaking Experts: How the Media Gets Religion Wrong

Recently, I gave a presentation on depictions of Mormon women in the print media since...

September 05, 2012

Mormonism and the Christianity Police

If one were to rank the issues about which the Church of Jesus Christ of...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

Sharing a Name

A family member of mine shared this photo on Facebook a few days ago. This...

August 27, 2012

Are You a Good Mormon or a Bad Mormon? How Exclusive Language Might Just Lead to Apostasy

Like many liberal Mormons, I looked forward to Joanna Brooks's interview with Jon Stewart, like...