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April 2013

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 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 18, 2013

On the Discourse of Dichotomy

Despite the fact that social scientists have yet to discover a single human society that...

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 14, 2013

French Polynesia and Mormonization: Rethinking Mormon Origins

On January 3, the Community of Christ’s First Presidency called Maureva M. Arnaud Tchong to...

January 02, 2013

A Church without Words

I go to a church where there are no words. Well, that's not entirely true....

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...

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...

November 11, 2012

Latter Day Conversions: Divided Families and Reconciled Relationships

As a twenty-year old leader in my college youth group, I was asked one day...

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 15, 2012

Bearing the Burden of Testimony

John Turner, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University, has had a very...

October 08, 2012

One Miracle at a Time

While it may seem like small news that the LDS Church's rules for women's missionary...

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 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 01, 2012

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

July 2012

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 11, 2012

Emma Smith and Ecumenical Miscommunication

July 10 was the 208th birthday of Emma Hale Smith Bidamon, wife of Joseph Smith,...

July 02, 2012

Mormons, Soldiers, Socialists, and Me

Growing up, I lived in society where housing was assigned to families based, first, on...

June 2012

June 22, 2012

Wildcard Friday Post: Tragedy Part II

My last post cast a broad net over the dilemma of tragedy in Mormonism, so...

June 14, 2012

Mirroring Mormonism

Negotiations continued this past Sunday evening at the 2012 Tony Awards. The show opens with...

June 12, 2012

The Divine Doctor

For the last few years, some of the world’s most interesting Mormon theology has been...

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...

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 16, 2012

My Emergency Shelf

Chef James Beard is a hero of mine. His prose is clean, content-rich, and full...

May 14, 2012

A Mormon Massacre Site and Places within a Space

The LDS church has purchased the site of the most infamous event of the 1838...