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Desert Prophet of Salvation Mountain Wants to Share his Life Story

By Lauri Lebo

…as slept for 30 years, at the foot of the mountain he built by hand and surrounded by the stray cats that people have dropped off over the years. Kevin Eubank, the other man in the video, has been looking after Leonard for the past 20 months. A frequent visitor to the Slabs from New Mexico, he came by Salvation Mountain one day and noticed the toll the harsh life was taking on Leonard. So, he went back to New Mexico, rented out his house, bought a…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…wish people for 3,000 years—should be off-limits to Jews, while the entire city is open to Arabs, is deeply prejudicial. The suggestion that Jews, or any other ethnic group, would be denied residence in an American city would instantly be condemned as racist. Moreover, there are no settlers in Jerusalem, which is sovereign Israeli territory, just as there are no settlers in Tel Aviv and Haifa. While the Times often reports on construction in Isra…

Civil Rights and Soul: Memphis 2010

By Lauri Lebo

…ent temperatures of more than 110 degrees without running water and electricity.) But I digress. The final leg of my journey took me to Memphis, a city so filled with rich history (and terrific barbecue) that it would take weeks to properly explore. There I met a man, a sanitation worker, who marched with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike. Elmore Nickelberry, who at 79 is still making the nightly sanita…

Hajj Journal: Visiting the Kingdom is Not the Same as Visiting the King

By Amina Wadud

…us driver knew where to unload them. Where we stopped was not yet into the city limits for Makkah. Even when they got to this nice, quiet (or creepy empty?) spot outside the city, there were a lot of negotiations. This was followed by the inconvenience that since they had boarded first, their bags were somewhere under our bags, tied under tarp on the roof of the bus. Yes, I did say on the roof of the bus and under tarp. But don’t get me started on…

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…Turkey: Pride, under threat from Islamists and nationalists, cancelled by city officials City officials in Istanbul announced that the city would not allow the annual pride parade to be held this year. It was scheduled for June 26. A far-right youth group affiliated with the nationalist Great Union Party had held a press conference promised to do “what is needed” to stop the event from taking place. More from the Independent: Ömer Akpinar, a Turk…

Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

By Lauri Lebo

…gent design as an utter fraud foisted on American taxpayers, I took a road trip to visit creationism museums. Along the way I visited a kitschy place in Kentucky called Dinosaur World, filled with towering fiberglass dinosaurs all posed naturally together in a deciduous woodland setting. The entrance exhibit traced the dinosaurs from their rise in the Triassic period to their demise at the end of the Cretaceous era. For 40 million years, according…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…n and Hezbollah—still, nothing was invented. A Muslim world that lacks in groundbreaking scientific research also lacks in groundbreaking destructiveness; even in its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, confirmed in Pakistan and suspected in Iran, the search has been derivative. There are other senses in which the Muslim world, by and large, has not ‘excelled,’ and for that perhaps we should be grateful, not caustic. For you cannot claim the p…

Inside InterVarsity’s Purge: Trauma and Termination at the Premier Evangelical Student Org

By Deborah Jian Lee

…nd that his personal ministry has not gone away. Today he finds himself surrounded by a collection of multiethnic students, some of whom identify as queer, at the University of Utah. Together they share “intense and beautiful and crazy stories,” he said. “None of them come from a Christian background, but all of them are asking questions about Jesus.” Students and alumni tell him of the impact he’s had on their lives and that, especially for multi…

Immigration in Our Lovely Deseret

By Joanna Brooks

…First published in 1850 in the provisional state of Deseret (later renamed Utah territory), the Church-owned Deseret News is read by many Mormons living beyond the state of Utah and held in special regard as an especially authoritative “Mormon” take on the news. Sensitivity to immigration issues among Mormons—Anglo, Latino, and otherwise—is heightened by the fact that the Church’s strongest growth in the U.S. over the last decade has been among La…

Mormon Feminism is Back

By Joanna Brooks

…n from their homes in the Midwest and crossed the plains to Utah. Women in Utah first won the right to vote in 1870. And Mormon women in the late nineteenth century were sent back east to train as medical doctors, encouraged by Brigham Young himself, who said in 1869: We believe that women are useful, not only to sweep houses, wash dishes, make beds and raise babies, but they should stand behind the counter, study law or physic, or become good boo…