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Mormonism Cost Romney the Election (But It’s Not What You Think)

By Kathryn Lofton

…ilience and, in doing so, also admiringly depict it. The pioneer Mormon is reliable in pop culture as a naively stalwart, and almost always inadvertently gallant, hero; which is exactly the kind of unwitting character that can overtake an incumbent. Why didn’t Romney tell this story? Why didn’t he provide an account of himself that reckoned with the very things we find so uncanny about him, namely his unmitigated embrace of capital, procreation, a…

Why Evolution Should Be Taught in Church

By Paul Wallace

…ws at them, to shield them from the dark realities of modern life, to seek reliable absolutes by which to measure the world. That is, those in this group attend church in order to escape mystery. Because mystery means not knowing, and people must know. This is broad generalization, to be sure, but many, many people are powerfully motivated by the fear of the utter mystery of life. It is, after all, the great unknown. And to not know is to give up…

The Liberal Soft Sell

By Daniel Schultz

…try to stay out of the wrangles within the Anglican communion. Even with a reliable guide, things are complex and sometimes hard to follow. But this bit about cross-communion boundary disputes from MadPriest is funny, and more than a little opinionated: TEC [the Episcopal church, a.k.a. ECUSA] members complain when Tom Wright flies over to the States to “educate” them and gain disciples. But why shouldn’t he? It’s a free market and one invented by…

RDBook: There is Nothing New About the New Atheism

By Ibrahim Abusharif

…d glaciers, uncontainable greed, and shrinking fresh water supplies?). Like art, the core of the checks and ethics that we live by (even in secular societies) and that make civilization possible is rooted in sacred tradition. This is a reliable observation. The communal thought, the new groupthink, is starting to emerge: atheism as advancement. It will be interesting to see how public atheism and its chief advocates attempt to forge a new cultural…

Anti-Gay Campaign In Indonesia Leads to Arrests; Mexico’s Religious Right Wars Against Secular State & LGBT Equality; Muslim Preacher Sparks Controversy in UK Re Death Penalty For Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…er single women try IVF — partly because frozen eggs are known to not be a reliable option for them. From the perspective of Jewish law, he said, it is positive that Ben-Ari’s baby will have a father… “I would prefer like every rabbi in the world that babies would be part of a Jewish family according to halachah. But she made the decision not to miss being a mother, and the baby’s father is known and will be involved. These are positive things,” C…

Rising to Heaven in a Secular Rapture: Trump’s Golden Promises

By Eric C. Miller

…think they needed government because the churches often did offer a great number of services. They were tithed, members gave ten percent of their income to sustaining the church, and whatever problem they had, they could take it to the church. It was very central to their lives. At the same time, they sensed that they were Christians in an America that was becoming increasingly non-Christian, so I often heard them say things like, “You can’t say…

Why Don’t Republicans Want to Allow Pastors to Endorse from Pulpit?

By Daniel Silliman

…want them to actually do it. The religious right continues to be the most reliable bloc of voters for the Republican party. To those voters, the 1954 bill passed by then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson requiring tax-exempt religious organizations to refrain from politics is often seen as offensive, and understood as an attack directly on the practice of their faith. Republicans currently control both houses of Congress courtesy, in many cases, to these…

Another “Hot Text” For the War on Women: Rosemary’s Baby

By Mary Valle

…ogyny that the film, at its best, critiques. Sure. Women are notoriously unreliable and “hormonal.” I love how the “nice guy” Dr. Hill placates Rosemary, puts her down for a nap, then calls in her husband and Dr. Sapirstein. It’s so sinister. But it shows how women are seen as not knowing what they want or even as reliable witnesses to their own experiences. Polanski’s Repulsion is that kind of tale, but in Rosemary’s Baby, he had to balance how h…

Trump’s Mormon Problem

By Neil J. Young

…, while an early August poll has Clinton with a slight lead. While Trump’s numbers are dropping almost everywhere—a recent poll indicated Clinton has grabbed a four percent lead in Georgia, for example—the Utah numbers invite further investigation. In Slate, historian Max Perry Mueller provided critical insight last week contextualizing Trump’s poor standing among Mormons within the LDS Church’s long history as victims of religious persecution and…

No “Cancel Culture” on the Right: How Conservative Christians Protect the Powerful

By Chrissy Stroop

…o much about the everyday social world works to reinforce monogamy and the reliable differences between men and women,” and believes that “complementarity and chastity, narrowly defined,” are essential to the flourishing of our society, as without them, “chaos” would supposedly reign supreme. This is precisely the kind of theology—and that’s what it is, even if Regnerus tries to disguise it as sociology—that often allows white male leaders to reta…