Religion Dispatches
…eligious movement for social justice in America,” will be held at New York City’s Middle Collegiate Church on Tuesday, October 14. Charities in crisis: The disastrous economic situation with its record number of housing foreclosures and rapidly rising unemployment rates will undoubtedly leave many families in need of assistance. Over the past eight years, the Bush Administration has been dedicated to demolishing the government’s responsibility for…
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…t Magnolia did it better. Similarly, Liel Leibovitz at Tablet thinks that Groundhog Day and Fight Club are more likely to inspire religious discussion than Noah. God’s Not Dead presents philosophy as the enemy of Christianity, but the screenwriter doesn’t seem to know much about philosophy. At Patheos, real-life atheist philosophy professor Dan Fincke offers a point-by-point rebuttal to the film (including a section called “How I Graded Religious…
Read More…for media communications, cautioned his followers not to believe that the city would narrow the subpoenas. Scott pointed to a Parker tweet time-stamped around midnight today, reading, “If the 5 pastors used pulpits for politics, their sermons are fair game. Were instructions given on filling out anti-HERO petition?-A,” suggesting that the city was attempting to discover whether the petition organizers knew some of the collected signatures may hav…
Read More…. – The LDS Church came out in support of non-discrimination ordinances in Salt Lake City which would protect homosexuals in housing and employment. While there are large carve-outs for church-related/owned businesses, the ordinances in SLC inspired a number of other Utah and Idaho towns and cities to follow suit and opened many conservative Mormon’s eyes to some problems they’d never before considered. – There have been no church-sponsored effort…
Read More…9, founder Liz LeCompte and company made their ownpilgrimage to Sabbathday Lake and other East Coast Shaker sites; it was longtime company member Kate Valk’s first trip. The Wooster Group has a unique way of working with source material, beginning with a meticulous recreation of that source. The performers wear visible earpieces and microphones over their plain cotton dresses so as to stay in sync with the recording. The Shakers too, we find out,…
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…Colorado City has that same heightened sense of place. I drove and walked around Colorado City and attempted to be as invisible as possible. Ha! It kind of worked. One thing that surprised me was this roadside espresso stand, with two women in prairie dresses operating a relatively sophisticated espresso machine and next to it a mortar and pestle with homemade herbal add-ons, like St. John’s Wort. I had a nice chat with women at the espresso stand…
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…geography!” Much of the response has been positive. A recent editorial by Salt Lake City art historian Alexandra Karl in the Salt Lake Tribune called Anderson’s work “truly groundbreaking” in the way it “diverges from her [LDS] contemporaries and predecessors, by specifically targeting LDS ‘modesty culture.’” (As if to illustrate Karl’s point about Utah’s collective squeamishness about nudity, the Tribune did not provide a link to Anderson’s site…
Read More…rella terms for groups and labels for individuals who don’t pay tithing to Salt Lake. I talked to a lawyer about this, who said the first thing any judge would ask is: How is the church harmed by Mormon Match’s use of the word Mormon? The site isn’t claiming any official connection to the church; it’s catering to Mormons and addressing Mormon concerns rather than asserting that it’s endorsed by the leaders of the LDS church. How does providing a s…
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…e, and also not such a frustration to deal with the amorphous agent of the airline as a whole. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the customer service agent or the person at the desk, who sat there, right when the doors were closed and the flight took off, just as you arrived. It doesn’t really matter who exactly provides some justice. The institution probably just prefers to funnel it through one channel, namely customer service, because then they ca…
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…hoice,” he said. And I said, “Great, we agree on that.” Then, he said, “In Salt Lake, they told me it was okay to take that position in a liberal state.” I said, “That doesn’t make me quite as happy. I’d rather know you really believe it.” At this very historical moment, in the early 1990s, Mormon feminists who voice pro-choice sentiments are taking a hit from Church-owned institutions. BYU Professor Cecilia Konchar Farr was effectively fired in 1…
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