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2013-11-12T14:03:24+00:00

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Apologetics Again—But This Time with Feeling

Last updated on: November 12, 2013 at 2:03 pm By joespencer

Violent, sudden, and calamitous revolutions are the ones that accomplish the least. While they may succeed at radically reordering societies, they usually cannot transform cultures. They may excel at destroying the past, but they are generally impotent to create a future. The revolutions that genuinely alter human reality at the deepest levels—the only real revolutions, that is to say—are those that first convert minds and wills, that reshape the imagination and reorient desire, that overthrow tyrannies within the soul. —... Read more

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Mormonism

Secularization

2013-11-12T12:05:31+00:00

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“If We Can’t Fix It, It Ain’t Broke”

Last updated on: November 12, 2013 at 12:05 pm By Melissa Inouye

“IF WE CAN’T FIX IT, IT AIN’T BROKE.” Because I live in Hong Kong, whenever I’m in the States I tend to notice all sorts of little things and to recklessly ascribe deep cultural meaning to them. So when I read this slogan on the wooden sign nailed on the outside of the car repair shop, it struck me as a charming specimen of Americans’ optimistic, can-do attitude. The wooden sign was a play on the original saying, “IF... Read more

2013-11-07T21:26:07+00:00

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Diary of a Single Mormon Female: A Review

Last updated on: November 7, 2013 at 9:26 pm By Emily Belanger

Few people are brave enough to publish their diary, and yet that is what Aleesa Sutton has done in Diary of a Single Mormon Female. Starting with a recent singles adult activity that Sutton jokingly describes as a savanna, full of competing lionesses but low on prey (I’ll just note that I’ve met many desperate-for-marriage LDS men, so I do not support this stereotype), Sutton then retraces the steps that have brought her to where she is today: “Mormon and... Read more

Mormonism, politics, Romney

2013-11-04T21:05:14+00:00

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In Praise of Cafeteria Mormonism

Last updated on: November 4, 2013 at 9:05 pm By Patrick Mason

It was both troubling and fascinating (something like watching a car wreck) to witness the dustup of the past few days over the unfortunate column by LDS author Joni Hilton excoriating what she dubbed “liberal Mormons.” I’m sure that Sister Hilton is a wonderful person who may or may not regret at least some of both the tone and substance of what she wrote, not to mention the minor firestorm she set off. I have no idea why she feels... Read more

2013-10-30T23:48:49+00:00

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There’s So Much to Do, Outside the Ivory Tower!

Last updated on: October 30, 2013 at 11:48 pm By Cristine Hutchison-Jones

I am an independent scholar. Not independently wealthy unfortunately – I have to earn my bread – but I am one of the growing number of people with PhDs who, for a wide variety of reasons, are not pursuing a traditional career track of teaching and scholarship, but rather have day jobs that variously engage our talents – academic and otherwise – while we continue to engage in the life of the mind on our own terms. I’ve only... Read more

2013-10-22T15:44:48+00:00

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Mormons as Christians; Christians as Mormons

Last updated on: October 22, 2013 at 3:44 pm By Matthew Bowman

In the nineteenth sixties and seventies, an “anti-cult” movement emerged in America, assailing religious movements like Krishna Consciousness and the Children of God and Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple with the word “cult.” The anti-cult movement was secular, and as such attacked these movements in secular language: it popularized concepts like ‘brainwashing’ and ‘deprogramming,’ warned that such religious movements were not really religious but rather elaborate means of self-gratification erected by charismatic leaders who wanted to exploit the young, and generally... Read more

Mormonism, politics, Romney

2013-10-15T13:12:34+00:00

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Beyond Family: Women’s Leadership in the LDS Church

Last updated on: October 15, 2013 at 1:12 pm By Melissa Inouye

A recent flurry of debate and discussion over the issue of women’s roles in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has provoked exasperation and hurt on multiple fronts. Advocates for an expansion of women’s ecclesiastical authority and responsibility point to the underrepresentation of women in church leadership structures (here, and here). For instance, during the four main sessions of the church’s worldwide General Conference last weekend, only two out of twenty-eight sermons were delivered by women (7%). In... Read more

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Mormonism, politics, Romney

2013-10-10T22:49:30+00:00

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Thinking Historically as a Christian (And/Or a Mormon)

Last updated on: October 10, 2013 at 10:49 pm By Benjamin Park

This last weekend, during the Saturday morning session of General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Dieter Uchdorf of the First Presidency offered one of the most meme-worthy quotes for scholars of Mormonism. (You know, if Mormon scholars did memes.) While explaining that there are a number of possible reasons why some would choose to leave the Church and giving the particular example of being nagged by “unanswered questions,” he admitted that “there have been... Read more

Mormonism, politics, Romney

2013-10-07T16:06:44+00:00

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A New Accent on Religious Freedom

Last updated on: October 7, 2013 at 4:06 pm By Ryan Tobler

Last month the LDS Church reinforced its advocacy of religious freedom by further expanding the resources on that subject available at its Newsroom website. In addition to launching a social media campaign focused on galvanizing support for religious liberty, the Church released several new video segments on the subject in an effort, according to its news release, to “help people of conscience everywhere understand the importance of protecting religious freedom.” One clip is an introductory message from Church Apostle L.... Read more

Modern Mormonism

Mormonism

politics

2013-09-27T18:09:11+00:00

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Mormonism and the Christianity Police

Last updated on: September 27, 2013 at 6:09 pm By Taylor Petrey

This post is a slightly modified reprint of an earlier post. I am adding it as part of the Patheos Roundtable on “Are Mormons Christians?” If one were to rank the issues about which the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is most sensitive, near the very top of the list would be the persistant accusation that Mormons are somehow not Christians. This is literally the first question in the FAQ section at www.mormon.org. In responding to this charge... Read more

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