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2012-08-19T23:12:43+00:00

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What Does It Mean to Be ‘Friend’

Last updated on: August 19, 2012 at 11:12 pm By Max Mueller

Yesterday morning, readers of the New York Times opened their Sunday papers to find John Turner’s op-ed, “Why Race Is Still a Problem for Mormons.” Turner, an assistant professor at George Mason University and the author of the soon to be released, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, provides a careful and concise history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ (LDS) often troubling relationship with people of African descent. Turner also argues why the contemporary church (and its membership—especially... Read more

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2012-08-15T16:23:40+00:00

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Why Mormons Should Write Fantasy Novels

Last updated on: August 15, 2012 at 4:23 pm By Alan Hurst

Fans of fantasy and sci-fi, or at least Mormon fans of fantasy and sci-fi, have often wondered why Mormon writers are so well represented in the genre. Some have said there’s something in our theology that sparks it; others say it’s just a coincidence—a few Mormon writers were successful writing fantasy and sci-fi, they trained others, and it became a trend. Some think Mormons aren’t overrepresented, just more open about their religious affiliation than other writers. And, of course, some... Read more

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2012-08-06T08:21:01+00:00

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What It Means to Be Christian

Last updated on: August 6, 2012 at 8:21 am By Matthew Bowman

So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch. Acts 11:22-26 And those who did belong to the church were faithful; yea, all those who were true believers in Christ took upon them, gladly, the name of Christ, or Christians as they were called, because of their belief in Christ who should come.- Alma 46:15, The Book of Mormon Here are some... Read more

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2012-08-01T14:44:53+00:00

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Individualism, Communalism, and the Foreign Past of Mormonism

Last updated on: July 30, 2012 at 6:33 am By Benjamin Park

For verily I say unto you, the time has come, and is now at hand; and behold, and lo, it must needs be that there be an organization of my people, in regulating and establishing the affairs of the storehouse for the poor of my people, both in this place and in the land of Zion. For a permanent and everlasting establishment and order unto my church, to advance the cause, which ye have espoused, to the salvation of man,... Read more

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2012-07-25T14:24:25+00:00

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Weed, Mormonism, and the Language of Sexual Politics

Last updated on: July 25, 2012 at 2:24 pm By Rachael

The Josh Weed story continues, as evidenced by the recent ABC News Nightline interview and continuing articles, blog posts, and mushrooming comments. The country is fascinated with this homosexual man with a purportedly happy and [even sexually] fulfilling marriage of over ten years. He has raised interesting questions about the nature of homosexuality, marriage, and self, that I think have done a great deal to deepen and broaden the conversation. In tackling one of the many elephants in the Mormon... Read more

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2012-07-23T16:33:33+00:00

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The Mormon “Persecution Complex”

Last updated on: July 23, 2012 at 4:33 pm By Ryan Tobler

Among self-conscious Mormons and attuned outside observers, there is a popular perception that Mormons have a peculiar sense of their own reproach. Both their beliefs and their sociocultural history, some believe, breed Latter-day Saints to be acutely aware that they are beleaguered in broader society, a feeling that’s sometimes called a “persecution complex.” Mormons are, according to this line of thought, highly sensitive to their own social marginalization. Because of this sensitivity, they are likely to see hostility to their... Read more

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2012-07-18T17:25:51+00:00

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Mormon ‘Niceness’

Last updated on: July 18, 2012 at 5:25 pm By Ryan Tobler

Before there was The Book of Mormon musical, Trey Parker and Matt Stone were the wicked masters of South Park, and in a 2003 episode titled “All About the Mormons,” Mormons were their prey. A new Mormon family moved into the South Park neighborhood, and the episode revolved around the encounter between this disturbingly happy clan of Mormons and the usual cast of precociously postmodern grade-schoolers. In some ways, it was a premonition of what was to come later with... Read more

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2012-07-18T00:47:28+00:00

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Sports as a Religious Legacy

Last updated on: July 18, 2012 at 12:47 am By Kate Holbrook

When Olympic season appears on the horizon, I tend to recall how I was a disappointment to my parents. Well, only on one account but it was significant: I was not athletically inclined. My parents were my mother and grandmother, and they loved sports. My Grandma graduated from BYU with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education. She was one of the first white women to hike across the Grand Canyon from the North to the South Rim. She... Read more

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2012-07-13T18:40:56+00:00

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Everything is Spiritual

Last updated on: July 13, 2012 at 6:40 pm By Alan Hurst

Every few years, someone publishes an in-depth look at the financial holdings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The articles’ tone varies—sometimes deadpan, sometimes scandalized, sometimes even admiring—but it seems they all express some sort of surprise. “It’s a church,” they seem to say. “Why does it own businesses?” With the Mormon Moment now entering its fourth millennium (or so it feels to me), it was only inevitable that someone would write yet another version of the... Read more

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