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February 2018

February 03, 2018

On Mormons and Planets

One of the most common canards about Mormon teachings —embraced by attempted comics both left...

April 2017

April 06, 2017

Trump Should Learn from Andrew Jackson: Keep Church Out of State

Trump can learn from his hero and reject a fusion of Church and State. Among...

November 2015

November 06, 2015

How I choose to see the revisions

I write this as a heterosexual person, one who is not directly affected by the...

December 2013

December 18, 2013

God Gives US TV Sets To Please Our Eyes and Gladden Our Hearts: Two Mormon Views of the Prosperity Gospel

Here's a brief transcript from a filmstrip intended for Mormon audiences, "The Lord's Laws of...

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...

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 16, 2013

Dan Brown’s “Inferno”: An Eternal Return

I just finished reading Inferno, Dan Brown’s latest book. I’m no expert on Brown, though...

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 2012

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...

April 2012

April 23, 2012

On Mormon Secularization and Politics

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