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Necessary Sacrifice: Sundance, Mormon Movies, and the Race to Oscar Night

By Kathryn Lofton

…is as late-life convert (Tears of a King: The Latter Days of Elvis), Jared Pratt (The Pratt Brothers: Builders of Zion), and Austrian missionaries (The Errand of Angels), there was also a shorts program screened mid-afternoon. “Island Girl” tracked three Tongan sisters living in Salt Lake City; “Blind Faith” offered a parable about visions and blindness through one obsessively inquiring suburbanite; “Wrestling With God” documented three hipster Mo…

Media Overplays Rihanna Concert Coverup

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…ing to different opinions), but not if she’s wearing clothing you find inappropriate? From the artist’s point of view, it also seems like a seems like an affront. It compromises the artists’ “package deal” of music, image, and stage presence, the latter two of which sometimes include scanty clothing. People can hear performers like Rihanna or Gwen Stefani sing any time if they buy her CD or mp3s, but they pay to see her wear crazy getups and do co…

For the Love of God, Bono, Please Stop Touring

By Ben Swihart

…d in the background, and the subtle reminder that white supremacy killed a preacher and a prophet has me feeling the Spirit. Then 60,000 white people screamed at Bono’s pandering, “America! You are the Dream!” Meanwhile, I couldn’t stop wondering how many of them were updating their status to “MLK never blocked traffic!” while we marched for Laquan McDonald and Rekia Boyd. Four beers in, and Bono is giving my now drunken neighbors credit for being…

Romney to Talk Mormonism Tonight: Risky?

By Sarah Posner

…Back from my Bloggingheads hiatus, I talk with Get Religion’s Mollie Hemingway about whether Mitt Romney’s plan to discuss his Mormonism tonight at the Republican National Convention benefit his candidacy: And we also discussed the significance of the fact that Barack Obama is the only Protestant on both presidential tickets: …

The ‘Freedom Convoy’ is Inspired by a Biblical Account of Divine Massacre: Welcome to the Jericho March

By Thomas Lecaque

…News, Ben Shapiro, and Dan Bongino influence groups around the world that spread Facebook propaganda. All of these have directed attention to Canada and fundraised for the occupation of the city. Franklin Graham, a J6 defender, posted a supportive Instagram video, tagged with “I’d like you to meet who Prime Minister @JustinPJTrudeau called the ‘fringe minority.’ Tell me what you think of this video.” It features the Jericho March, among others, an…

Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church

By Mark D. Jordan

…no need the recite the whole joke. Prisoners can just call out the joke’s number to provoke raucous laughter. Or not—because some people just can’t tell a joke. Some days I wonder whether we shouldn’t adopt a similar system for church arguments about homosexuality. Not the raucous laughter (though there are plenty of causes for it), but the numbering. Instead of reciting the familiar arguments once again, we could simply call out the numbers to c…

Spinning Ft. Hood

By Hussein Rashid

…and top counterterrorism officials—understand this and have been acting appropriately. Muslim-American Responses It seems as though the Muslim-American community is clear about this point as well; they are part of the American security situation. There very well may be a backlash, but Muslim-Americans are not going to allow themselves to be cast as “not quite Americans.” They are apparently more confident, and even if others see them as outsiders…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…cation, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourg…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…h in their life proves anything about one’s sexual orientation. What this “proof” reveals is that, indeed, Foster’s problem isn’t homosexuality, but (as the title of his most recent book alludes to) sexual addiction, and gets the most bang (sorry) for his buck out of sex with men. Perhaps he has other psychological issues centering around shame or self-hatred or body image that lead him to prefer anonymous encounters over deeper, loving relationsh…

Presidential Pep Talks and the Religion of Fear: How did an Uncontroversial Speech Become a National Controversy?

By Eric Reitan

…ing off. Apparently they weren’t as excited about it as my son was. Not surprising, since the president’s message was one they’d probably been hearing from teachers and parents and civic leaders since they were in the first grade. But the most memorable part of the news segment was a brief interview with one mother who, after confronting the uncontroversial character of the speech, declared that this is how indoctrination starts: subtly at first,…