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In Just 10 Years ‘The Book of Mormon’ Musical Has Gone From America’s Darling to America’s Latest Problem — The Inverse of the Mormon Story

By Jake Johnson

…verted path Mormonism itself took in this country. Born in 1830 in upstate New York, Mormonism spent much of the nineteenth century retreating further and further into America’s middle spaces in the face of rejection and violence. Mormons practiced polygamy and built communities of shared resources—qualities that historian Paul Reeve has shown disqualified this almost totally white religion from the protections of whiteness. Looking but not acting…

Men Without Guns: A Tribute to Larry McMurtry

By Amy Laura Hall

…e recommends Pauline Kael’s review of “Hud,” and Kael brings in London and New York, noting that critics watching “Hud” from above mistakenly discovered significance, unable to process that McMurtry’s American West, a “lonesome country,” is not a serviceable morality tale. I’m currently writing a book on muscular Christianity and know the publishing pressure to shoot fish in a barrel. “Send us a manuscript with guns on the cover.” That’s almost a…

Oh Say, Can You See?: 9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power

By Spencer Dew

…e 9/11 artifact flags, such as the one famously raised over Ground Zero by New York City firemen or similarly distinct memorial flags like the giant, 75-pound “Patriot Flag” which is on tour around the country to honor the 9/11 victims. The commemorative fields of flags that demarcate local 9/11 memorial rituals, however, feature most prominently the iconic Stars and Stripes, and, while the number of flags arranged is meant to be awe-inspiring, al…

Ross Douthat on the Brink

By Haroon Moghul

…of conclusion we’d expect from a Pamela Geller, or a Tommy Robinson. Not a New York Times columnist. Speaking of the large numbers of mostly male refugees entering Germany and Western Europe, Douthat writes that “many of these men carry assumptions about women’s roles that are diametrically opposed to the values of contemporary Europe.” How, exactly? He coyly cites a Norwegian curriculum for migrants which notes that “in Europe, ‘to force someone…

Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sts, allowing “tens of thousands” of children to be abused. According to a New York Times editorial, “The United Nations panel went to the heart of the matter in rejecting the church officials’ claims that they were responsible for enforcing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child only within the geographical limits of Vatican City and not globally through their power over the Roman Catholic diocesan hierarchy.” Church officials a…

Unbuckling the Bible Belt: “Nashville” and the Nones

By Carrie Allen Tipton

…the location of a “memorial service” for her mom. In an interview with the New York Times, “Nashville” show creator Callie Khouri said of the real-life Bluebird that this little room, where music is sacred and the people who play it are revered, contains the essence of what makes Nashville unique, as much if not more than the suburban Grand Ole Opry Entertainment Complex or the venerable downtown Ryman Auditorium, the longtime former home of the O…

Why We Need a Public Black Theology for the 21st Century

By Vincent Lloyd

…following the debate about Glaude’s essay on National Public Radio, in The New York Times, and even at The Root, the Henry Louis Gates-founded blog geared toward the Black upper-middle class. Where were the Black theologians? They do exist: in our age of institutionalized multiculturalism, every divinity school and seminary knows that they need one. Academic Black theology began with Black Christian intellectuals inserting themselves into the publ…

Jewish Past/Israeli Future: A Review of The Invention of the Jewish People

By Shalom Goldman

…sh mother may have the best of both worlds—being free to live in London or New York, confident that the State of Israel is theirs, even if they do not wish to live under its sovereignty. Yet anyone who did not emerge from Jewish loins and who lives in Jaffa or Nazareth will feel that the state in which they were born will never be theirs. To Read What Has Really Been Written In what I think was a tactical error, rather than make the citizenship an…

Vandalism as Conversation-Starter

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ds, Michigan via YouTube or Pandora or Slacker to a church wall in Western New York while the forty or so diehard worshippers at Grace Episcopal (fewer than half of whom, according to Broad, use any electronic communication) sleep perhaps a bit too soundly through the night. The promise of conversion in this story, then, has to do with a church waking up to a bigger world, a more complex and challenging religiosity, and responding to it with, dare…

Pussy Prophets & Nuns on Buses: Will Feminist Politics Get More Holy & Foolish?

By Beatrice Marovich

…ly a display of concord with Pussy Riot’s “punk prayer.” Additionally, the New York Times reports that several women (arrested for wearing the iconic Pussy Riot balaclavas at a protest in front of the Russian consulate) will be challenging an 1845 New York mask law that prevents crowds of masked bodies from gathering in a public space. There’s something extremely foolish about the bright neons of these balaclavas, about Pussy Riot band members’ an…