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Time for Mormons to Come to Terms with Church History

By Joanna Brooks

…d book on Mormon women’s history. The culture of shame and silence that surrounds these subjects within Mormon culture means that many Mormons learn about them for the first time from strangers on the internet, in venues ranging from anti-Mormon websites to scholarship by respected Mormon historians. Even I have received email from parents who relate that their kids have stopped identifying as Mormon after encountering information about Joseph Smi…

Kavanaugh Hearings Are a Commentary on Mormonism

By Holly Welker

…ink rape culture explains the recent kerfuffle involving Robert Kirby, the Salt Lake Tribune humorist and retired cop who was forced to take three months’ unpaid leave after Courtney Clark Kendrick revealed that he had asked her to pretend to be an escort and to consume edible marijuana almost immediately upon meeting her at the Sunstone Symposium in July. While Kirby didn’t deny the actions, he did insist that the real problem was that Kendrick s…

Talking Back to a Mormon Elder: Religion versus Reality

By Brent D. Beal

…t? “We cannot change” Less than three hours after Elder Packer’s talk, the Salt Lake Tribune ran the following headline on its Web site: “Apostle: Same-sex attraction can change.” It’s bad enough when Church members are boxed into a corner and obligated by their faith to deny their own sense of reality, but in an age when communication is nearly instantaneous (and when the Church is still struggling with the fallout from its support of Prop. 8 in…

Touch Me, Man, I’m Healed, I’m Straight

By Ted Cox

…y out homosexuality. In 2007, Wyler addressed a group of ex-gay Mormons in Salt Lake City. He said that as part of his healing work, he “found a men’s experiential healing retreat—and discovered a connection to men unlike anything I had ever known before. For the first time in my life, I really felt like a man among men—like I really belonged.” That retreat was the Mankind Project’s all-male New Warrior Training Adventure, which as the Houston Pre…

Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…lor to believe and see the image of God in themselves. Christus statue in Salt Lake City(L) and the stained-glass Jesus in the sanctuary at the 16th St. Baptist(R) I was particularly interested in the section of your book that deals with the Depression era and portrayals of Jesus. Thinking about the current U.S. economic situation, I wonder if the different portrayals of a radicalized Jesus also have a class component to them as well? And as an a…

5 Take-Aways from the Newly Viral Romney End-Times Video

By Joanna Brooks

…aign. He talks about his role as a local LDS Church leader. He talks about Salt Lake City and Church policy. He talks theology. He talks about ultra-conservative LDS writer Cleon Skousen. He talks about violent end-of-days scenarios with a sureness and vigor some may find unsettling. And whoever has pushed this video out again believes that those elements will turn off non-Mormons, non-Christians, and the non-religious, and will motivate liberals…

The Year in Mormons: Top 7 Stories of 2012

By Joanna Brooks

…ality” groups, with the largest contingent of 300–400 taking part in May’s Salt Lake City LGBT Pride Parade. (RD covered the movement here and here and here and here.) 6. Election-year media scrutiny discloses lingering LDS racism, prompting official statement from the LDS Church. Racist comments defending the LDS Church’s century-long ban on black priesthood ordination by BYU religion professor Randy Bott appear in the Washington Post, prompting…

“Papers Please”: The Legal Battle Over Church Sex-Abuse Files

By Omar Shamout

…rld,” Clark said. “With the Mormon Church, everything that happens goes to Salt Lake.” The problem is those documents aren’t discoverable in court. The LDS Church maintains it does not keep records of child abuse. Plaintiff attorneys have been unable to convince courts that the Church’s disciplinary documents fall outside of clergy-penitent privilege. In 2004, two Washington sisters sued the Mormon Church for negligence after being molested by the…

Women to Pray for the First Time in April LDS World Meeting

By Joanna Brooks

…e, this April 6–7, veteran religion journalist Peggy Fletcher Stack of the Salt Lake Tribune reports. The announcement comes after Mormon feminists and their allies mounted a “Let Women Pray” letter-writing campaign this winter. (LDS officials say that the Conference program was set “many weeks ago.”) Women’s advocates within the LDS Church like LDS WAVE have long pointed to the continuing restriction on women praying in the Church’s global meeti…

Glenn Beck Attracts 300,000; Pakistan Floods Impact
17 million

By Joanna Brooks

…ed areas, with additional shipments from the Humanitarian Relief Center in Salt Lake City forthcoming. And I was especially heartened to see the Church teaming with Islamic charities to provide relief, as it did during the Haitian earthquake crisis, when it partnered with Islamic Relief USA to send food and medical supplies. The Church has its reasons—religious reasons—for being modest about humanitarian efforts, as it has explained here. And I ha…