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Apocalypse Earth: What Would Jesus Say About the Approaching Environmental “End Times”?

By Clark Strand

I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately to the Second Coming. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not waiting for the Christian Airlift. As far as I can tell, the idea that some of us will be extracted at the last possible moment, leaving the rest to clean up after the party, is largely responsible for the fix we find ourselves in at present—with dying oceans, rising temperatures, and the projected loss of between one-quarter and one-half of all surface pla…

Mormons Take Even More Activist Message to DC Pride March

By Joanna Brooks

…City. Then again, the message is even more political I spoke with Spencer Clark, a straight, active member of the LDS Church, and father of two children, about his planned participation in the Mormons for Marriage Equality DC Pride contingent. Tell me why you’re marching. I’m marching because I want to make a statement to [the] LGBT community and my friends that I support and accept them and I believe they should have the same rights as I do. And…

“Cult” Cinema Comes of Age

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…fledging years of the Baby Boomer generation. Sociologist of religion Wade Clark Roof has discussed this group as the “generation of seekers” who ultimately create a “quest culture” that winds up in a “spiritual marketplace.” This is the era that began the decline of mainline Protestantism, the upswing of evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity, and the social-theological stirrings that led to Vatican II, all of which ultimately intersected wi…

Why Did Vandals Try to Destroy a Holy Tree?

By Joseph Laycock

…bove the Missouri River. First discovered by Euro-Americans when Lewis and Clark traversed the river in 1805, several pages of Meriwether Lewis’ journal are in fact spent describing the area’s beauty and the awesome power of nature. On discovering the collapsed arch, authorities found empty beer bottles and the marks of a crowbar. Individually each of these acts might be an anomaly, but together they form a pattern. One might call them, “crimes ag…

Animal Sacrifice and Sexuality in Santería

By Nick Street

…ultures that often provide few other spaces for them—and there are a large number of gay and lesbian practitioners in Santería—the practice itself is deeply interwoven with discourses of freedom and liberation, and power and oppression. This is why the main focus of my work now includes gays and lesbians and women of all sexual orientations. So what have you learned over the course of your research? I’ve interviewed women of all sexual orientation…

A Religion Scholar Gets It Wrong on Indiana’s RFRA

By Danny Fisher

…ate’s three most prominent lobbyists on conservative social issues”: Micah Clark of the American Family Association of Indiana, Curt Smith of the Indiana Family Institute, and Eric Miller of Advance America. GLAAD has extensive records on each as part of their Commentator Accountability Project, including the “extreme anti-LGBT comments they have made [publicly],” and The Indianapolis Star points out that they were also “three of the lobbyists who…

American Brokenness: A Lament

By Daniel Schultz

…iwert notes, this is an unhealthy trait in a modern democracy, and as Fred Clark adds, it’s one that takes a great deal of energy to maintain. To be sure, conservatives are not alone in embracing the false promises of conformity, security, and prosperity. Many liberals cheered on the invasion of Iraq. Many of them invested in the stock market. And yes, liberals know a thing or two about smugness. But conservatives are unique in having been told ag…

I Don’t Want a “Plutonic” Relationship

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ncing as any I know. “There may be little love, even little generosity, in Clark’s bedding of Sarah, but Sarah has discovered that her body can be the cause of happiness to her and to another. It is this discovery which most clearly shows why we might want to talk about grace here. Grace, for the Christian believer, is a transformation that depends in large part on knowing yourself to be seen in a certain way: as significant, as wanted.” From ther…

Will Mormonism Really Hurt Romney in Iowa?

By Joanna Brooks

…day-to-day conversation among Iowa Protestants. In Davenport, Iowa, Pastor Clark Olson-Smith at All Saints Lutheran agrees: “I’ve never heard anyone bring up Romney’s Mormon-ness as an issue here. There are a few people who I could imagine bringing that up, but never in public.” And the faith-motivated issues his younger congregants care about don’t map onto the traditional social conservatism. “We have a number of people who are really concerned…

LDS Church, US Government Swap Positions on Polygamy

By Holly Welker

…nd publicity, or marry off little girls to old men. Instead, just like any number of secular polyamorists, many polygamists can and do pass for conventional Americans—and have argued that they deserve the right to be treated as such. Friday evening, a federal judge announced that he agreed with them. Judge Clark Waddoups of the United States District Court in Utah issued a 91-page decision in a lawsuit filed by Kody Brown, who, with his four wives…