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    • Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
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      2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
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      Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
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      Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right
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      Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24
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Holly Welker

Holly Welker is the editor of Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage. Her poetry and prose have appeared in publications ranging from Seventeen to Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought to Bitch to the New York Times.

(A)theologies, Guest Bloggers**April 29, 2014

Ordaining Mormon Women Would End Joyful Diversity

By Holly Welker

Ahh, I see. Okay.

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(A)theologiesApril 24, 2014

LDS Church Asserts Trademark of “Mormon”

By Holly Welker

Attempts to shut down new dating site. 

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RD BlogApril 18, 2014

Mormons’ Puzzling Indifference to Easter

By Holly Welker

And why Mormonism is a very American religion.

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Guest Bloggers, RD BlogApril 14, 2014

Will Internet Kill Mormonism Too? Or Just Missionaries?

By Holly Welker

It’s good to get up and walk around.

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StoriesApril 7, 2014

LDS Church Says Hugs and Heart-felt Conversations ‘Divisive’

By Holly Welker

Fear of women’s equality.

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Guest Bloggers, RD BlogApril 2, 2014

When Satire is Redundant

By Holly Welker

You and your silly notions of equality.

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Guest Bloggers**, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderMarch 31, 2014

Louis CK Asks on SNL: “How Could We Not Have a [Divine] Mother?”

By Holly Welker

Mormons have one…they just can’t worship her. 

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StoriesMarch 24, 2014

The Mormon Version of Infallibility

By Holly Welker

Because “it’s wrong to criticize leaders of the church, even if the criticism is true.”

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StoriesMarch 20, 2014

LDS Fraud Case Ruled An “Abuse” of the Court

By Holly Welker

Can you litigate the truth of religious claims?

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RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderMarch 18, 2014

LDS Church “Non-Negotiable” on Women’s Ordination

By Holly Welker

Because, that’s why. 

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