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August 2012

August 22, 2012

The political irrelevance of anti-Mormonism

Political anti-Mormonism was a real force in late nineteenth-century America. Commentators across the country denounced...

August 20, 2012

What Does It Mean to Be ‘Friend’

Yesterday morning, readers of the New York Times opened their Sunday papers to find John...

August 14, 2012

Why Mormons Should Write Fantasy Novels

Fans of fantasy and sci-fi, or at least Mormon fans of fantasy and sci-fi, have...

August 06, 2012

What It Means to Be Christian

So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great...

July 2012

July 30, 2012

Individualism, Communalism, and the Foreign Past of Mormonism

For verily I say unto you, the time has come, and is now at hand;...

July 25, 2012

Weed, Mormonism, and the Language of Sexual Politics

The Josh Weed story continues, as evidenced by the recent ABC News Nightline interview and...

July 23, 2012

The Mormon “Persecution Complex”

Among self-conscious Mormons and attuned outside observers, there is a popular perception that Mormons have...

July 18, 2012

Mormon ‘Niceness’

Before there was The Book of Mormon musical, Trey Parker and Matt Stone were the...

July 16, 2012

Sports as a Religious Legacy

When Olympic season appears on the horizon, I tend to recall how I was a...

July 13, 2012

Everything is Spiritual

Every few years, someone publishes an in-depth look at the financial holdings of the Church...

July 09, 2012

“Sister Wives” as Cultural Work

I got sucked into watching “Sister Wives,” I’ll admit it. Having deliberately avoided it for...

July 05, 2012

The Truth About Mormon Stereotypes

A decade ago, during the last “Mormon Moment” when the Winter Olympics were held in...

June 2012

June 27, 2012

Transparent Things

When we concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation, the very act of attention...

June 25, 2012

Faith Over Family: A Dating Dilemma for Mormon Singles

After living for eight years in Provo, Utah - first as a student at Brigham...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

The Limits of Mormon Assimilation

As a historian of religion in the early American republic, much of my research has...

May 28, 2012

Mormon Patriotism and the Cultural Reading of Scripture

At the New York Review of Books blog, Garry Wills recently asked some important questions about Mormonism...

May 23, 2012

Is Mormonism Ridiculous?

In The Book of Mormon Broadway musical, the central character Elder Price sings, “I Believe...”...

May 22, 2012

Is Mormonism ‘Bad Religion’?

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat has a new book out. It’s called Bad Religion:...

May 09, 2012

Mormonism and Public Discourse on Religion

My students love Mormonism--or, they love to talk about Mormonism, often quite critically. And it's...

May 07, 2012

Mormonism and the Dilemma of Tragedy

Mormons, it seems, are undeniably happy people. Everything from the Church-sponsored "I’m a Mormon" campaign...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

Other People’s Dead

The most recent controversy over Mormonism’s practice of posthumous baptism reached its peak in February...

April 27, 2012

“I’m a Mormon, yes I am!”

Like Rosalynde Welch, one of my early musical memories (besides my oldest brother blasting Van...

April 26, 2012

Domestic Violence and Mormonism

Domestic violence is disturbingly prevalent in the world at large. Worldwide, most estimates suggest 1...

April 23, 2012

On Mormon Secularization and Politics

Mormonism has been secularizing since 1833. (For those keeping score at home, that’s three years...

April 18, 2012

The New (Non-Mormon) Politics of Mormon Persecution

In “Why Ann Stayed Home,” McKay Coppins of Buzzfeed offered his intervention into the reignited...

April 16, 2012

The PR (In)convenience of Mormon Terminology

One of the more fascinating aspects of the recent “Mormon Moment” (and there are many)...

April 11, 2012

Lay Clergy: The Democratic Vision of Mormonism

Mormonism isn’t democratic. Everyone knows that. There are no public debates to determine Church policy....

April 09, 2012

Bones & Honey: The Problem of Allegory

What is there to learn, after all, from the world you already know, the stories...

April 04, 2012

Why Is It So Hard to Figure Out What Mormons Believe?

The leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has spent far more...

April 02, 2012

Peculiar People and Assimilated Americans

“I am an assimilated American,” William Morris ("Wm") recently wrote at the popular Mormon arts and...