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Time for Mormons to Come to Terms with Church History

By Joanna Brooks

…y to manage messaging and information and breached the boundaries of the still socially insular community. Studies show that rates of disaffiliation have risen significantly among Mormons in the first decade of the twenty-first century. According to a survey of more than 3,000 disaffiliated Mormons conducted by the Open Stories Foundation, thorny historical issues top the list of reasons why Mormons leave. These issues include the disputed origins…

The New Christianity: What the Mainstream Media Has Missed

By Bill Berkowitz

…accurately be called radical Christians with some pentecostal /charismatic parallels” and which has, as one of the distinctive characteristics of Third Wave Christian ministry, a heavy emphasis on healing miracles including raising the dead—an emphasis promoted from the pulpit in sermons at Palin’s most central church, the Wasilla Assembly of God. We also found extensive evidence that Palin is in a religious movement founded in 2001 that has coale…

Looking For Answers at the Oscars: A Guide to This Year’s Contenders

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…nd Jules are married. David O. Russell’s The Fighter also tugged at our familial and friendly bonds by questioning the idea of loyalty. The emotional drama exists in the tension between siblings—half-brothers, sisters—yet the drama reaches a pinnacle when Micky Ward’s own identity is torn between his private/family life and his identity in front of a public. The tensions between private identity and public identity are perhaps most apparent in t…

Missing the Forest for the Witches

By Joseph Laycock

…cks all of these sites because they are categorized as “occult” and “criminal skills” sites. Netsweeper, a global corporation based in Canada, categorizes websites and allows clients to choose which ones to block. In addition to following state and federal laws to block child pornography, the Salem Library also elected to block all sites that Netsweeper categorized as related to the “occult” and “criminal skills.” Between them, these categories in…

Magic In the Daylight

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…fine model for the classic skeptic-nebbish character that can be found in all Woody Allen’s movies, for years played by Allen himself, and recently by various more-talented stand-ins, in this case Colin Firth, as Stanley Crawford, aka the great conjurer Wei Ling Soo. It is somehow harder to believe this particular nebbish’s gripes about life being “nasty, brutish and short” when he’s lured to the south of France to expose the inevitable fraudulen…

YouTube Terrorism

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…bserved: “Like postmodernism, the Internet does not distinguish between the true and the false, the important and the trivial, the enduring and the ephemeral.” Had she added “between the sanitized and the incendiary” her words would have predicted what we saw in Benghazi but, alas, will see loss of life and property in other places during the still young but perilous 21st century. It is a century, our century, that belongs neither to the USA nor t…

The Real Mormon Moment

By Joanna Brooks

…rds less orthodox members of their congregations. I dream tonight of a signal from Salt Lake City, or an even higher place, will empower a different kind of action, a standing down on all sides, a putting away of defensiveness and fearfulness, a putting to rest of Mormonism’s nineteenth-century ghosts and twentieth-century control issues. A signal to the men tasked with the burden of convening an excommunication court this Sunday in Virginia, and…

YOU Are Spiritual But Not Religious: The Secret Spiritual History of the Choose Your Own Adventure Books

By Daniel Silliman

…readers with Montgomery’s core belief, illustrating again and again a central value of human agency and responsibility. “It’s finally saying to you, you’re involved,” Montgomery said in one of the few interviews he did on the subject. “What are you doing and why are you making these choices?” Montgomery, who died late last year at his home in Vermont, was largely known for his role in turning the CYOA books into a franchise that eventually extende…

Churches Can No Longer Hide the Truth: Daniel Dennett on the New Transparency

By Andrew Aghapour

…ennett spoke recently with The Cubit about institutional transparency, the parallels between religious and atheistic fundamentalism, and the future of religion. You describe non-believing clergy as “canaries in a coal mine.” Why does this group hold such significance for understanding the future of religion? I think that we are now entering a really disruptive age in the history of human civilization, thanks to the new transparency brought about b…

White Supremacy and Orthodox Christianity: A Dangerous Connection Rears Its Head in Charlottesville

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ere is a real danger that American Orthodoxy will be further implicated within the white nationalist movement. And ignorance, especially willful ignorance, is no defense….