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BYU Skinny Jean Controversy: Sexism, Sizeism, or Standards?

By Joanna Brooks

…y lessons, our Especially for Youth camps, girls camp, our official church website, church publications, our instructions for 21 year-old female missionaries. It’s starting to feel like a founding principle of our religion. I’d love to see us . . . get back to the good stuff. This is not our good stuff.” Some Mormons emphasize the importance of obedience for obedience’s sake as a key principle. Others ask whether disproportionate attention to dres…

LDS Church Disavows “Mormon”-ism

By Holly Welker

…wants everyone to stop using the word Mormon. A style guide—posted on its website mormonnewsroom.org—explains that the full name of the church (capital T on The, hyphen between Latter and day, which has a lower-case d) should be used on first reference. Since it’s impractical to use all those words every single time you might want to refer to the church headquartered at 50 North Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, what’s approved for subsequent refer…

Hurricane Sandy Spawns Right-Wing Theodicy

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…any “Frankenstorms” around the world. It’s unclear what role, if any, climate change plays in boosting the temperature of the mid-Atlantic waters. But its possible effect on Hurricane Sandy, [Jeff Masters, cofounder of the website Weather Underground] said, signals what might await the Northeast over the coming years as ocean temperatures rise and hurricane season gets longer. Now, that’s a prophecy we can actually do something to change….

Mormon “Martin Luther” Causes Stir by Uploading LDS Church Handbook of Instructions to Internet

By Joanna Brooks

…astonishment, the LDS Church published the entire second volume on its own website. (The first volume remains officially restricted to lay clerical leaders.) The buzz among bloggers and web-journalists quickly converged around changes to the section of the Handbook dealing with homosexuality. One Utah television station even ran a nightly news segment suggesting a link between the changes, Proposition 8, and the protests following Elder Boyd K. Pa…

How Do Evangelical Missionaries in Brazil Justify Risking Indigenous Lives During a Pandemic?

By Chrissy Stroop

…ion of) Israel and attempts to missionize uncontacted peoples. Ethnos360’s website makes this quite clear, as it includes “pretribulational rapture of the church” in its statement of faith and refers to a need to “finish the task” of reaching all peoples with the gospel. This mandate has driven a certain type of Christian missionary for centuries, often leaving a brutal impact in its wake. We can only hope that public awareness and pressure will p…

Rebranding the Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…ormon.org, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’s just-released website and public relations campaign that allows site visitors to find and read thousands of profiles (searchable by gender, race, former religion, continent, or keyword) posted by individual church members. Member profiles rotating on the homepage feature an ethnically diverse mix of American Mormons including a woman artist, a women’s world longboarding champion, a happi…

Tea Party Patriots Pressure Public Schools to Adopt Skousen Curriculum

By Julie Ingersoll

…textbook” and a seminar based upon it are still available for sale on NCCS website (the book currently available may be an expurgated version but the original edition is available on Amazon.) These self-styled watchdogs of education (with a pretty clear anti-education agenda) are capitalizing on severe budget constraints in every state. Their aggressive campaign to make available seemingly innocuous materials so schools can comply with requirement…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…life. US public opinion hasn’t changed since the fall of Roe; if anything, numbers in support of reproductive rights have risen. Indeed, the issue of abortion rights has remained a losing strategy for the Republican Party since the end of Roe, even in deep-red states. In every major election since, where abortion has been an issue, Republicans have lost. In ballot initiatives and local elections up and down the country—Kansas, Kentucky and Virgini…

Raelians Push White House for Alien Embassy to Save Humanity

By Joseph Laycock

…as given until 2025 to construct the embassy or face destruction, though a website describing the embassy has pushed the critical date back to 2035. It also features messages from the Elohim expressing frustration with Israel and threatening to move the embassy to a more worthy country. The Raelian movement has a history of using controversial campaigns to remain socially relevant. (Recent examples include the Swastika campaign and the Clitoraid i…

American Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy

By Sarah Posner

…when it comes to taxpayer funding of abortions,” reads his lede) and got a number of vague answers which suggested that US anti-choicers don’t feel particularly inclined to export the abortion wars to Israel. But Americans United for Life’s Charmaine Yoest, who is Christian, ventured into a suggestion that perhaps the Israelis were getting their own religious laws wrong: Dr. Charmaine Yoest, the CEO of Americans United for Life (AUL), decided to u…