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Time for Mormons to Come to Terms with Church History

By Joanna Brooks

…he 1990s. But the internet has profoundly impacted the Church’s ability 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 o…

Contraception Furor v. Catholic Realities

By Mary E. Hunt

…en’s reproductive health, something the Roman Catholic Church has tried to manage for millennia. The demand for widespread religious exemptions from a common sense policy that makes coverage of contraception part of a national health care package causes most people to scratch their heads. Why in 2012 would anyone resist birth control? Why would a church that opposes abortion not want people to use effective, economical ways of preventing unwanted…

Our Dance Clubs, Our Churches

By Peter Laarman

…s. Clubs that often used to be owned and run by the mob, i.e., the kind of management that knows how to manage things with the cops. When I was young and looked really good in 501s I would spend more late Saturday/early Sunday hours than I care to remember dancing my butt off in rooms where the drinks might be watered but where the music was always hot and no one gave a damn. The Eagle in Exile, across from the old library in DC. The Clubhouse up…

What’s Ahead in the World of Mormonism for 2011

By Joanna Brooks

…ted to have compared working with Elder Boyd K. Packer to trying to “stage manage a grizzly bear.” In October 2010, after Elder Packer delivered a highly controversial and bruising talk on LGBT issues at the Church’s global General Conference, grizzly bears indeed may have been stage managed. Packer’s talk was revised for publication and (in response to pressure from members and LGBT human rights groups) the Church subsequently issued a statement…

Red White and Blue No Longer

By Peter Laarman

…g such legislative monuments? Methinks the implied continuing linkage of “American” to “white Christian” also accounts for a good bit of the obsession with Obama as an outsider: neither a true American (where is that birth certificate?), nor a true Christian. If you doubt that whiteness counts for more than the doctrine part, consider this: white Protestants who were taught to believe that Mormonism is a dreadful false religion will nevertheless…

Capricology: Week 3: Apotheosis, Anyone?

By Salman Hameed

…, six-foot-tall Cylon prototype that her essence is trapped in. She’s also managed to access Adama’s daughter Tamara, and takes Tamara along to Club V with her and Lacy. The decision to let Tamara go off on her own in Club V without Lacy and Zoe will definitely have some interesting ramifications, since she does not seem to be aware of her “avatar” status, and still thinks she’s human—even though she can’t feel her heart beating. Sister Clarice, m…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…s fight poverty: The statistics are startling. According to the Center for American Progress’ Sally Steenland and Chase Nordengren, “Over 37 million Americans live below the official poverty line, constituting a population larger than the 25 smallest states combined… One in eight Americans is poor. One child in six is poor. … From 2000 to 2007, the number of children living in poverty increased by 15 percent… In 2007, the richest 20 percent of Ame…

RDBook: Technology and Tradition: Carlson’s Indiscrete Image

By Nathan Schneider

…nything but closed. We are not fenced-off creatures that interact with and manage a universe outside us, whether it be a medieval monastery or a virtual reality machine. We know ourselves only through our relationships with the things of a universe that is mostly beyond comprehension, our own inventions included. The uncanny convergence between mystics and tech-savvy moderns means that listening to tradition in the face of new challenges doesn’t e…

Death With Dignity: Combatting Religious Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide

By Krista Kapralos

…is intent. Even in the case of increasing morphine doses, the intent is to manage pain; the intent of physician-assisted death is to extinguish a life, she said. God prohibits the taking of one’s life under any circumstances, McQuade said; “It’s evil.” Suffering, even when death is imminent and the pain is excruciating, is a critical piece of life, McQuade said. If someone tries to bypass suffering by taking a lethal drug, that person is losing ou…

Keep it Catholic, Catholics: A Response to Michael Sean Winters’ Attack on Frances Kissling in America

By Mary E. Hunt

…think of Catholics as being as diverse as Jews, though I observe that Jews manage their diversity with a great deal more grace. Then we can lift the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that constrains many professional Catholics from saying what they believe on issues like contraception. There are solid Catholic arguments for the many approaches, not all of which I like, but all of which I have to be honest enough to admit are Catholic. Just as I would…