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Meet the New Haggards—Same as the Old Haggards?

By Kathryn Joyce

…ever, once the Haggards fell into an unglamorous obscurity in the suburban Southwest, and after Gayle stood by her man through betrayal, financial uncertainty, and the disdain of most of her community, they seemed to stop watching her. Until now. Gag rules imposed on the Haggards by both separation and spiritual “restoration” agreements with New Life have been lifted and the couple is free to discuss their side of the scandal—which they’re doing e…

Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”

By Max Mueller

…luential, and feared men—white or Native—in what would become the American Southwest. But few have ever heard of him. Wakara was a founding father of the states we now call Utah, California, and New Mexico. He also stole horses by the thousands from the California missions and enslaved hundreds of Paiute Indians, whom he sold at slave auctions in New Mexico and Utah. Wakara was a great and terrible man. But we know little about him. And what we kn…

New Age Tragedy in Sedona: Non-Indians in the Sweat Lodge

By Johnny P. Flynn

…ng event in Sedona cost each participant more than $9,000. A search of any number of Web sites advertising these “Indian ceremonies” will turn up sweat lodges that average over $100 per event, and four-day “vision quests” going for around five hundred dollars, “all meals included” and “Visa and MasterCard accepted.” Indians all across the country are upset, saying white people stole the land, killed the buffalo, and now want to steal the religion….

Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…racial resentment of voters, especially (though not only) in the South and Southwest, who felt abandoned by the Democrats, and to break up the “New Deal” coalition that had helped Democrats since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This change didn’t happen overnight—it took years. Under Eisenhower, the GOP poured more resources into the South, establishing party structures in places of the country where there had never been a Republican on the bal…

Survey Finds Little “Francis Effect,” Two U.S. Catholic Churches

By Patricia Miller

…dates, while the other is primarily Hispanic, younger, concentrated in the Southwest and supports Democratic presidential candidates.” It’s this hardening of Catholic camps that may make it difficult for Francis to effect real change in areas like immigration reform and, particularly, climate change and global economic inequity. Eighty-one percent of non-white Catholics said the government should do more to address economic inequality, versus 65%…

Romney Betrays Harold Bloom’s Fantasy Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…e aside from a short season of “wandering” (as he describes it) about “the Southwest from 1989 to 1991” he does not know it. And while it’s terrific to see opinion page coverage of Mormonism at the Times move beyond Maureen Dowd’s sneering recap of Bill Maher’s latest stand-up routine, it would also be terrific to see the nation’s paper of record solicit its Mormon content from some of the nation’s most knowledgeable interpreters of Mormon politic…

Running Against the Devil: Trump’s Conspiracy-Laden Fight Against Powers of Darkness

By Carmen Celestini

During five years of research in southwest Louisiana for my book “Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right,” I came to know many white, older tea party enthusiasts. Nearly all now support Donald Trump. It was because of his penchant for conspiracies, not in spite of it. – Arlie Russell Hochschild, Washington Post, 11/7/16 In mid-October Alex Jones, host of Infowars, infamous breeding ground of conspiracy theories, ann…

Dark Sisters Opera Aims to Humanize Sister Wives

By Joanna Brooks

…a focuses on the spiritual travails of a polygamous family in the American Southwest after their household has been raided by law enforcement. I spoke with Mr. Muhly last week to explore the production’s spiritual side. Joanna Brooks: Tell me about the genesis of the project. Nico Muhly: It began very abstractly. Basically, an opera commission comes up and it’s a big open question: what kind of stories make sense? I knew we would have space limita…

Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized

By Nathan Schneider

…cade earlier. I don’t pretend to have done a full-scale ethnography of the Southwest IAF network. How could one do that in a summer and a winter? Rather, the book is an exercise in public philosophy. It is meant to resemble classic works of traveling theory like Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and Martineau’s Society in America. I wanted to bring the philosophy of democratic citizenship down to earth. How has your thinking evolved about your ea…

Mormonism in 92 languages

By Joanna Brooks

…nslated into a handful of European languages and Tongan. A few years ago, I spent a whole morning tuning into the various real-time translation streams on-line. As someone who has spent some time in the Navajo Southwest, I listened longest to Conference in the beautiful Dine Bizaad—Navajo language. Ya’a’teeh, brothers and sisters. Happy conference weekend. And welcome to 21st century Mormonism….