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Spiritual Unplugging, Or What to Do When There is Wifi at the Ashram

By Matt Hamilton

…self-interrogation boiled, my hand extended to the right. I reached for my phone, but I found nothing. At first I laughed at my instinct, my muscle memory. The phone, with its glowing screen, gave me solace and control. But I was tied to my cushion for another hour, and in this ashram for another day, so email would have to wait. I panicked. My heart raced. Would my editor be asking for me? Would a reply from that politician’s secretary sit unansw…

From Here to Eternity: Of Mormons and Celestial Marriage

By Holly Welker

…people in Mormon-dominated Utah than elsewhere in the country. The website Utah Marriage provides these statistics for the year 2000: *Utah’s marriage rate is 10.6 per 1,000 populations, well above that of the United States, which stands at 8.7 *Median age at first marriage in Utah—Groom: 23 Bride: 21 *Median age at first marriage in United States—Groom: 26.8 Bride: 25.1 Marriages contracted so early face significant challenges, so it is good that…

The Quiet Passing of Fundamentalist Mormon Prophet Lynn A. Thompson Suggests Polygamy Recognition Remains a Distant Hope

By Cristina Rosetti

…now introduced a bill that sought to effectively decriminalize polygamy in Utah. SB102 reclassified the practice as an infraction for consenting adults, whereas polygamy associated with other crimes remains a felony. The bill passed by an astronomical margin. At the center of the bill’s debate was harm reduction, and further integrating polygamous families into wider Utah society. Among supporters were several of Thompson’s children who left the f…

Religious Freedom Not Harmed by Tenth Circuit Decision in Utah Marriage Case

By Sarah Posner

…ourt of Appeals today affirmed the decision of a federal district court in Utah, ruling the state’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, making it the first federal court of appeals to rule on the issue after a slew of district courts struck down same-sex marriage bans in states across the country following last year’s Supreme Court decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act. Like many of the district court opinions, the Tenth Circui…

Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…y from Victorian sentimentalism. Such angels are on sale at reduced price; cheap wares for cheap faith. It would be an error, however, to fully dismiss pop culture angels. Despite the fact that representations of angels in film and television, comics and music, paperback novels and posters, are filtered through market concerns, such pop culture can still speak to human meaning—and because of that they merit our attention. Besides, the bulk of art…

Conviction of FLDS Leader Warren Jeffs Overturned

By Joanna Brooks

…aith’s remote compound in Eldorado, Texas. Jeffs will stand a new trial in Utah scheduled to begin on August 23, and he faces extradition to Texas. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is also being pressured to review state rape statutes to better deal with the situation of arranged underage marriages in polygamous communities. Two days after the news broke, Anderson Cooper hosted a show on the case. What stunned me in reading the show’s transcri…

Apocalypse Chasing with the Debt Ceiling

By Joanna Brooks

…actics. Would that he took a lesson from cooler heads back in the state of Utah, where just a few months ago religious leaders and lawmakers collaborated in the creation of a principled new Utah Compact on immigration reform heralded as a timely departure from the dead-end extremism of Arizona’s SB 1070 and praised nationwide as a model of “good sense and sanity.” What works so well about the Utah approach to immigration? It demonstrates respect f…

Mormons Prepare to March in LGBT Pride Parades Nationwide

By Joanna Brooks

…ty [women’s auxiliary] meeting was a Proposition 8 organizing meeting—with phone trees and the bishop coming in and saying you’ve got to do this. We just left shaking, and she hasn’t gone back. She never set foot in that building again. Through my kids’ eyes, I see things in a fresh way. So I was thinking about the Utah Pride Parade, which is now almost bigger than the Days of ’47 [Pioneer Day parade commemorating Mormon pioneers]. This is a para…

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era

By Benjamin E. Park

…hite evangelicals; the Utah College Exit Poll, however, with a much higher number of Mormon participants, put the number closer to 45 percent. Both figures are well below previous Mormon voting percentages for the Republican candidates, but they indicate that at least half of Latter-day Saints were willing to stomach Trump’s apparent moral deficiencies. This turn of events has historical precedent. Though the LDS Church’s political affiliation was…

How Much Did Jesus Care About Sex?

By Peter Laarman

…cost of true discipleship. The price it was called upon to pay was all too cheap…We gave away the word and sacraments wholesale; we baptized, confirmed, and absolved a whole nation unasked and without condition…Was there ever a more terrible and disastrous instance of Christianizing the world than this? It’s regrettable, I think, that “cheap grace” has turned into a kind of meme that Rod Dreher can toss into his debate with Andrew Sullivan without…