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How Should Mormons Respond to Leader’s Anti-Gay Comments?

By Joanna Brooks

…ith LGBT friends and relatives felt hurt and discouraged by Elder Packer’s talk. What would you say to them? Don’t let this talk silence you. Don’t let it drive you away (but don’t let it endanger your life either). God loves you and your children and your friends. Church leaders are very clear that being attracted to members of the same sex is not sinful, is not abominable. If you’ve spent your energy praying to have the attraction removed from y…

John McCain: No God But Country

By Kathryn Lofton

…he has such a hard time tying with a denomination, and why he doesn’t like talking about anything as singularly conceding as religious devotion. For some observers, the fact that McCain doesn’t talk much about his faith, about his Christianity, is a denominational inevitability. “McCain, actually, is being very authentic by keeping it inside,” writes voter Eric Gorski in a letter to the New York Times, “He doesn’t wear religion on his sleeve becau…

Ian Buruma on the Political Excesses of Religion

By Lisa Webster

…en the more zealous populists who have an overtly anti-Islam agenda, don’t talk about Christianity—they talk about the Enlightenment. And the Enlightenment used to be associated with the left, with liberals. But now, suddenly, defenders of the Enlightenment argue that the West stands for Enlightenment values and Muslims—religious Muslims—are challenging it, attacking it, undermining. But my view is that they’re using the Enlightenment as a kind of…

How AIDS Changed the Way American Christians Talk About Sex

By Anthony Petro

…rms of sexuality (which they often just called heterosexuality). They also talked a lot about improper forms of sex, including sodomy or homosexuality, but also sex before marriage, sex out of wedlock, and commercial sex. But even this history of sexuality is a starting point for a bigger claim about the form of power that religion takes in modern America, including its ability to shape ideas about health and citizenship. Did you have a specific a…

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…major theme of David Neiwert’s latest book, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right. There has been much discussion of the culture of incivility lately, epitomized by the recent indecorous outbursts of Rep. Joe “You Lie” Wilson (R-SC) during President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress, tennis star Serena Williams toward a linesman at the US Open, and rapper Kayne West at the Video Music Awards. But the rhetor…

Mormons, LGBT People Respond to Packer’s Talk

By Joanna Brooks

…ometimes reach out to feel her head for horns. Late in her life, she and I talked about homosexuality—we talked about everything—and she recalled back in the 1950s a boy who grew up on her block in her middle-class Los Angeles suburb, a child who she always knew was different, and kindly she asked, “I wonder what has happened to him? I wonder if everything turned out okay for him?” Kindness was the core of her Mormonism. In this moment, her memory…

Spiritual But Not Religious? Come Talk to Me

By Kate Blanchard

…on I keep in my office, in which a man with a t-shirt on that reads “LET’S TALK ABOUT JESUS,” says to another man, “It guarantees me an entire seat all to myself.”) I also share the Reverend Daniel’s frustration with people who might use “spiritual but not religious” as code for “I don’t really think about religion at all because it’s boring or difficult or irrelevant to my pursuit of self-interest.” One statistician of religion suggests that Amer…

From Bad to Worstest: How Liberals Should (And Should Not) Talk About Values

By Daniel Schultz

…in constant judgment. It turns out to be super easy to turn people off by talking about ethics and morals. It’s not wrong to talk about your values. I do it all the time! But you have to approach it sideways, with a sense of humor and surprise. Giving someone an unexpected reason to buy into a value works much better than a blunt, confrontational declaration. Start with a story. Drop the labels, the identities, the principles, and tell a story. A…

‘Late Night With The Devil’ Reflects the Role of Talk Shows in Sensationalizing the Satanic Panic of the 1980s

By Joseph Laycock

…s to actual figures from 1970s occulture. It also reflects on the way that talk shows became a vector through which rumors of Satanic cults spread, fueling the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. As described in my book The Exorcist Effect, filming a live exorcism was a goal of network news media for two decades. Beginning in the 1960s, the secularization narrative—the belief that science will soon render religion obsolete—coincided with surging interest…

COVID-19 is Concentrating Wealth Even Further; Can we Talk About the Surplus of Powerlessness in the Faith Community?

By Peter Laarman

…the eerie silence where the rest of faith leadership is concerned. When I talk about this with colleagues I hear lots of theories: fragmentation, fatigue, and of course the overwhelming immediate urgency of giving support and comfort to the grieving and the fearful. But something else is going on, and I think it’s something progressive religious people will need to grapple with whenever there’s time to take a deep breath. That something else is t…