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Ann Romney’s Big Love on the Big RNC Stage

By Anthea Butler

…gles. Like it or not, Ann Romney is probably the answer to the recent Salt Lake City Tribune question, “Who is the most visible Mormon woman?” So while Ann Romney framed her comments in a way last night that marriage seemed tough in the beginning, but with a lot of love, I chuckled. She probably had the help of many younger and older LDS women who talked about childrearing, baking, and keeping a household. The LDS Relief Society is a powerful plac…

Glenn’s at it Again, and Again

By Joanna Brooks

Oh, Glenn Beck. Earlier this month at a Mormon symposium in Salt Lake City, I spoke on a panel about how Mormons should respond to Glenn Beck. My take: don’t underestimate him, but try not to get so worked up about him. Beck wins every time we send more chatter, more attention, or more internet “hits” his way. He’s not making any converts, he’s running out of material (witness his July foray against 1960s black theology—1960s??!!), and the spin c…

Traditional Mormon Sexual Purity Lesson Contributed to Captivity, Elizabeth Smart Tells University Audience

By Joanna Brooks

…d: why didn’t Elizabeth Smart run? There she was, wandering downtown Salt Lake City, right in our midst, the veiled captive of a madman. But we also recognized something in that paralysis, that deadly quiet. We recognized something of ourselves. Now, Elizabeth Smart, continuing her elegant and courageous adult self-realization, tells an audience at a Johns Hopkins University event on human trafficking that a very traditional Mormon culture object…

The Third Party Publicity Stunt

By Sarah Posner

…top him. The group making the threat, which came together Saturday in Salt Lake City during a break-away gathering during a meeting of the secretive Council for National Policy, includes Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who is perhaps the most influential of the group, as well as Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, the direct mail pioneer Richard Viguerie and dozens of other politically-oriented conservative Christians, participan…

Remembering Arnold Friberg of Ten Commandments Fame

By Joanna Brooks

…of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Wednesday in Salt Lake City at the age of 96. Friberg produced the famous “Prayer at Valley Forge” (1975) depicting George Washington kneeling in the snow, a painting owned by Presidents Bush and Reagan. Legend has it the painter stood on the banks of the Schuylkill River in winter, gloves removed to feel the cold. Friberg also did scene and costume design for Cecil B. DeMille’s epic The Ten…

Mormon Statement on Feminism is Relevant and Timely… But Only by Coincidence

By Holly Welker

…s why I was struck by a passage about the reasons for the statement in the Salt Lake Tribune: The piece was not prompted by any contemporary issue, says church spokeswoman Irene Caso, including the ramped-up drive to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (which the faith opposes). The New Era’s content “is planned a year in advance,” she writes in an email, “so renewed interest in anything is typically coincidental.” The magazine “responds to topics tha…

The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…rector of media for the church’s Missionary Department. Meanwhile, in Salt Lake City, Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s Bible is for sale. The one of a kind book carries a $1.5 million price tag and includes unique genealogical notes about the Smith family. A group of American Muslim leaders have made a YouTube video denouncing militancy. And Islamic feminists are staging “pray-ins” at various mosques in protest against the separation of women during…

Changes in Role of Mormon Women Can’t Be Discussed—But Let’s Discuss Them Anyway

By Holly Welker

…pipelines. Responses to the changes have varied widely. A headline at the Salt Lake Tribune proclaimed that “faithful feminists will see revisions and additions as a ‘leap forward,’” though plenty of “faithful feminists” expressed anger and pain. Women have repeatedly objected to misogyny in temple ordinances, in doctrine, in practice—and the response has usually been some sort of censure: pray more and criticize less, seek true understanding, qu…

Is Criticizing Mitt Romney an Excommunicable Offense? No.

By Joanna Brooks

…egin and end.” And by late Friday, journalists Peggy Fletcher Stack at the Salt Lake Tribune and Laurie Goodstein at the New York Times also had a more complicated story to tell than that reported at The Daily Beast. According to Stack, the major precipitant for the disciplinary council was not the essay questioning Romney’s political independence from the Church but rather a Mormonthink.com article that publicly disclosed details from LDS temple…

Does Conservative Watchdog Actually “Get Religion”?

By Joanna Brooks

…Read the words of the churchgoing LDS women who spoke last week at a Salt Lake City vigil against gaybashing. These women don’t have high-ranking positions in LDS institutional life. They don’t make doctrine or policy. Very, very few women in Mormonism actually do. But they speak for an increasing number of everyday Mormons who know that gay people are our relatives. Family. Saints. Us. Are views on homosexuality evolving in Mormonism? You bet, a…