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The Secret Life of Mormons: As Told by Prodigal Daughter, Novelist Judith Freeman

By Joanna Brooks

…depression and use of anti-depressants among Mormon women. Men often don’t fare much better. They have unmet desires and shame and secrets that I believe lead to an extremely high statistic of men looking at pornography. There is a price to be paid for hiding things, for keeping parts of yourself secret. A lot of people in Mormonism lead double lives due to the pressure to tell faith-promoting stories. I think it comes too from the foundations of…

Tim LaHaye’s World: We’re Living In It

By Jason C. Bivins

…here’s something going on”—is precisely what has become standard political fare in recent decades, building on earlier iterations of the apocalyptic and the conspiratorial to become the mundane. I am not claiming that the things LaHaye built and did and wrote have had some kind of causal role in any of the actual events swirling in this agonistic America. But we live in Tim LaHaye’s world. The facts of his life are well-known. Detroit-born, WWII v…

Spiritual-Not-Religious or Just Lazy?

By Kate Blanchard

…race thrown in. Martha does, while Mary is. So far this is pretty standard fare, but I was utterly fascinated to then discover her diagnosis of the church as being overly full of Marys—people who just want to sit and listen to Jesus. Meanwhile she is a Martha—a multi-tasker who (in keeping with the Protestant work ethic) defends being busy: “In order for some people to sit around being still and having deep thoughts, I guarantee you there’s always…

Apocalypse Now and Then: How a Biblical Genre Shapes American Politics

By Christopher Douglas

…“creation science” from public schools, even as evolution became standard fare. They have watched feminism challenge gender roles, and the Supreme Court legalize abortion and mixed-race marriage and then same-sex marriage. They feared losing their children to a more pluralist religious landscape tolerant of decades of changes in sexuality, dress, drugs, music, and pornography. Decentered, they have lost real privileges and the ability to compel t…

Big Love, Saudi-Style

By Haroon Moghul

…n’t marry anyone else? Ever? I don’t know. File this under: Not your usual fare. Polygamy is not just a very uncommon practice, but it’s actively looked down on in many places. Among many Pakistanis, for example, it’s viewed with deep skepticism, if not disdain. In many Muslim countries, the practice is legally restricted (say, Morocco), with the law forcing husbands to prove means and uncoerced consent. In Turkey it’s banned altogether. So I’m ho…

Fact-checking Scripture: “Those who do not work should not eat.”

By Daniel Schultz

…rbids eating fruit from a new tree until its fifth year? Arrington doesn’t fare much better. For one thing, it would be easy to read his response as at the very least implicitly supersessionist: You can quote the Old Testament, but I have New Testament scripture! As Dewey points out, this bit from 2 Thessalonians is a favorite conservative justification for cutting social benefits. It’s also a gross misinterpretation of the passage: The passage, w…

Election Survey: White Evangelicals Remain Cultural Outliers on Race, Trump, Immigration

By Candace E. West

…erican customs and values.” White mainline Protestants and white Catholics fare only a tiny bit better, split nearly down the middle at 48 percent and 47 percent, respectively. On the other hand, 63 percent of Hispanic and 67 percent of Black Protestants say that immigrants have a positive effect on U.S. society, as do roughly three-quarters of Hispanic Catholics (76 percent) and nones (73 percent). To return to police killings of Black men: As st…

Netflix Removing Antigay Film Isn’t “Free Speech,” it’s Free Market

By Sunnivie Brydum

…orphanage or a gay home.” While the film’s central premise feels outdated, the battle over same-sex couples’ fitness to adopt and raise children is anything but. Mexico’s national patchwork of marriage equality laws leaves many would-be parents in limbo, and LGBT couples in the U.S. don’t fare much better. It was just last year that the final state law outright banning LGBT people from adopting was struck down in federal court. Less than 10 month…

Religion Comes to its Senses

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…nsing, and that’s a good thing. How does the experiential view of religion fare in the academy? My gripe about the academy is that they do talk about these concrete forms of religion, but in very abstract ways. So this book is an experiment in translating those ideas and reframing them into great stories. While writing the book I thought about scholars and the academic study of religion, but I also thought about the spirituality and self-help sect…

Roy “Ten Commandments” Moore Is Back With His Constitution-Defying Tricks

By Sarah Posner

…and his ilk: that despite what the Constitution says, the Bible comes first. Something tells me, though, Moore’s new stunt won’t fare much better than his last….