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2015-02-01T11:57:46+00:00

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On religious freedom and discrimination

Last updated on: February 1, 2015 at 11:57 am By Alan Hurst

With the recent proposed amendment to Arizona’s religious freedom law, Facebook has fed me a lot of outraged comments about religion and discrimination. Some rejected that discrimination was the sort of thing anyone could do for religious reasons: real religion teaches people to be kind to each other. Others allowed that people might have genuine religious reasons to want to discriminate, but denied that society had any reason to let them: “you can’t force your religion on other people” was... Read more

Mormonism, politics, Romney

2014-02-25T23:23:33+00:00

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The Decline of Something Called “Religion”

Last updated on: February 25, 2014 at 11:23 pm By Matthew Bowman

Stories of Decline Perry Miller’s exhaustive intellectual histories of Puritan theology were published back in the 1930s and 1940s, and did a lot to revitalize and rehabilitate the Puritans (what? You didn’t know that Puritans have been rehabilitated?). One of Miller’s primary narrative structures – one he shared, interestingly enough, with his subjects – was the declension narrative: that is, early Puritanism of the 1620s and 1630s shared, as Miller put it, “almost unbroken allegiance to a unified body... Read more

Mormonism, politics, Romney

2014-02-21T17:05:48+00:00

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Mormons and Basketball in the Philippines

Last updated on: February 21, 2014 at 5:05 pm By Christopher Jones

“There are good Mormons, rogue Mormons, drunk Mormons, polygamy Mormons. But one thing they all have in common is basketball.” –Rick Majerus, former University of Utah head basketball coach Mormons have a unique love affair with basketball, as Matt Bowman has deftly analyzed elsewhere. From the pickup games and (slightly) more organized local leagues sponsored by Mormon stakes and wards to 2011’s Jimmermania, and from LDS Prophet Thomas Monson’s casual backslap of former Utah Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan in... Read more

2014-02-19T16:11:08+00:00

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Missionary Work in the Pre-Correlation Age, My Grandfather’s “Mormon Doctrine,” and Mormonism’s (Un)Systematic Theology

Last updated on: February 19, 2014 at 4:11 pm By Benjamin Park

My grandfather took a train to Toronto, Canada, to start his LDS mission in 1948. After a very brief stay at the mission home, he was off with his new companion to find converts. The Church was very small at the time in the area. Big cities like Toronto and Oshawa had branches, but most small towns lacked a single member and the missionaries were left to travel long distances, usually once every few weeks, to neighboring villages in order... Read more

2014-02-17T23:33:13+00:00

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Who is Speaking for Me?

Last updated on: February 17, 2014 at 11:33 pm By neylanmcbaine

In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon famously faced each other in the first televised presidential debates in American history. Nixon appeared sickly and sweaty; Kennedy handsome and strong. Not only did the debates have a major impact on the outcome of the presidential campaign, but they heralded a new era for American media: we wanted to see ourselves represented in the images of our leaders. More than just a cosmetic satiation, the need to see ourselves reflected in... Read more

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2014-02-17T15:54:16+00:00

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Expanding Our Languages of Religious Experience

Last updated on: February 17, 2014 at 3:54 pm By Rachael

“I can imagine Jesus befriending my grandfather, too, frying up some breakfast for him, talking things over with him, and in fact the old man did report several experiences of just that kind. I can’t say the same for myself. I doubt I’d ever have had the strength for it. This is something that has come to my mind from time to time over the years, and I don’t really know what to make of it.” – John Ames, Gilead... Read more

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2014-02-10T13:17:29+00:00

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On Mormon Marriage Anxiety

Last updated on: February 10, 2014 at 1:17 pm By Ryan Tobler

I was 27 when I got married. That was well after most of my friends, whose wedding functions I attended. It was also after two younger sisters had preceded me into marital bliss. When my marriage did occur, it happened to the relief of some distant relations and other parties who had started to worry that I was malingering in bachelorhood. And it was also something of a relief to me, who had started to believe them. For this reason... Read more

Mormonism, politics, Romney

2014-02-05T00:33:33+00:00

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Scrap It: An Historian Contemplates Her Imaginary Photo Albums

Last updated on: February 5, 2014 at 12:33 am By Kate Holbrook

People approach personal recording keeping in different ways. Historian Rachel Cope, who clearly chose the right profession, kept her dolls as a child so future scholars could see how children’s toys changed over time. I approach record keeping by feeling bad about doing it too little. A year and a half ago, when I learned I had cancer but did not yet know the prognosis would be positive, the weight of two unfinished projects immediately settled in to haunt me.... Read more

Mormonism, politics, Romney

2014-02-03T13:47:49+00:00

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Community of Christ Sings: A New Hymnal for a Divided Global Church

Last updated on: February 3, 2014 at 1:47 pm By David Howlett

“You hold in your hands a vital mission tool!” proclaims the foreword of the Community of Christ’s new hymnal, Community of Christ Sings—the first comprehensive hymnal issued by the church since 1981. This new worship resource contains 664 hymns, responses, chants, and praise songs; half of these songs have never appeared in the church’s past hymnals. Perhaps the most consequential part of Community of Christ Sings lies in its “core repertoire,” or more than 100 specially selected songs that are... Read more

2014-01-30T02:58:29+00:00

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How Old Almanacs Help to Explain the “Nones”

Last updated on: January 30, 2014 at 2:58 am By Susanna Morrill

A couple of weeks ago, I was at the Huntington Library looking at almanacs from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Strangely, looking at them historically illuminated for me the category “nones” (people who affirm no particular religious tradition). I think of almanacs as the smart phones of an earlier era, or, more accurately, smart phones as the present-day, more interactive versions of the earlier almanacs. These old almanacs are a compact source of numerous layers of information. They give month-by-month... Read more

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