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Mormon Women Declare “Wear Pants to Church Day” December 16

By Joanna Brooks

…has been. It has been covered by all the television news networks in Salt Lake City, by the Salt Lake Tribune, the Associated Press, and the feminist blogosphere. Within the world of Mormonism, it has struck a nerve in positive and negative ways. There have been some incredibly nasty comments online and personal messages to organizers. I’ve been thinking about why the reaction is so negative, and it clearly comes from a place of fear that allows…

Mormon Leader: Religious Freedom Under Attack by Gay Rights

By Joanna Brooks

…on, especially inasmuch as the tire-slashing incident has made the news in Salt Lake City, but has not yet been acknowledged by the campus newspaper or University officials. Another LDS RD reader made the equally provocative observation that 18 years ago Oaks himself sounded a very different tune on the role of religion in public life, writing in the LDS Church publication The Ensign: If churches or church leaders choose to oppose or favor a parti…

Frodo and Mormon Share Stage in South Park Mormon Musical

By Seth Perry

…ighted village sings a wrenching song about reaching the storied paradise, Salt Lake City, where, she imagines, the warlords are friendly and the Red Cross is on every corner. Her belief inevitably leads to despair, as she learns that the paradise Cunningham has spoken of is not a literal place, but a place inside. Her reaction prompts incredulity from her fellow Ugandans, who’ve embraced Cunningham’s stories as metaphors. Referring to part of th…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…ues explore. The Candyman has learned to talk “jive,” the language of duplicity and manipulation. The ethos of the U.S. government, business, and “underground” can be interpreted as an evolving habit and an exercise in seduction. The U.S.’s prosperity, born of slave labor, the plantation owner dividing his slaves by way of hierarchy. The U.S. government splicing up Native land into reservations: “Plus the Great Chief in Washington promises your tr…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…buted every act and event to the will of God—even Ralph knew the earth was round. Describing the imperial insignia, he said it was “made in the form of a golden apple set around in a square with all the most precious jewels and surmounted by a golden cross. So it was like this bulky earth, which is reputed to be shaped like a globe.” What alternative title would you give the book? The Abacus and the Cross was the first title that came to me, and…

What Most Critics Missed About Dustin Lance Black’s ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’

By Cristina Rosetti

At the Salt Lake City premiere of Under the Banner of Heaven, writer, director, and producer, Dustin Lance Black explained that the series sought to tell a broader story of Mormonism, including Mormon experiences foreign to most viewers. By this time, some critics and media comments responded to Banner by arguing it incorrectly portrayed Mormonism (broadly defined) as a violent and dangerous faith. Few considered Black’s goal and the reality that…

Baring Their Testimonies: Mormon Women Get Naked for the Camera

By Holly Welker

In July of 2013, Salt Lake City photographer Katrina Barker Anderson launched Mormon Women Bare, a website featuring nude portraits of Mormon women. Anderson, who has a degree in broadcast journalism from Brigham Young University, spoke to me recently about the project. HW: What sort of attitudes about nudity did you grow up with? KBA: My mother is a painter; my father is a physician. So even as I grew up Mormon in small-town Ohio, I came from…

Dear Mitt, Young Mormon Families Need Medicaid Too

By Catherine Jeppsen

…also includes a significant number of young Mormons like me. Last year the Salt Lake Tribune reported that “44 percent of births to parents who listed ‘student’ as their occupation” in Utah in 2008 were funded by Medicaid. About 39 percent of those births occurred in Utah County, home to a population that’s about 80% Mormon and to LDS Church-owned Brigham Young University. As the wife of a BYU graduate student, I know that using Medicaid to financ…

FX’s ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ Adaptation Rejects Reductive Elements of Krakauer’s Book, But Confirms That ‘Mormonism Breeds Dangerous Men’

By Benjamin E. Park

…the faith’s reputation. The culmination of this new congenial approach was Salt Lake City’s hosting the 2002 Winter Olympics, which received international acclaim. The Church finally appeared to be gaining mainstream acceptance. The honeymoon period wouldn’t last. Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven appeared the very next year, immediately becoming a bestseller. The book tells the story of the grisly murders of Brenda Lafferty and her infant dau…

What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail

By Steven K. Green

…items within their borders (as is already the case federally with lottery tickets). A Republican-controlled Congress could then impose a nationwide ban on the mailing of abortion pills or certain contraceptives. (Republican-controlled state legislatures have already demonstrated a willingness to enact questionable legislation for nothing more than its intimidation factor.) Which brings us back to Anthony Comstock. In 1878, the Supreme Court uphel…