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As Mormon Lay Clergy Are Deported, a Divide on Immigration

By Joanna Brooks

…. And just last weekend, a majority of delegates to the overwhelmingly LDS Utah GOP convention voted to repeal HB 116, an element of Utah Compact legislation that created guest worker status for immigrant laborers. Put it all together—LDS Utah Republicans voting against Church-sponsored immigration reform legislation, while their fellow Mormons are deported from Utah in chains—and you have as clear a picture as any of the challenge the immigration…

7 Religion Stories to Watch in the 2012 Battleground States

By Joanna Brooks

…voters in Southern states; still, Romney still faces real opposition from Colorado evangelicals, including Colorado-born Bryan Fischer and the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family. Will Romney have to expend extra resources to bring Colorado evangelicals to the polls? And will a statewide ballot initiative on the legalization of marijuana bring younger voters (including younger Colorado evangelicals who some see as potential Democratic vote…

“Liberal Nazis”: The Republican Crusade Against NPR

By Paul Harvey

…uring a panel discussion from various locals (the religion reporter at the Colorado Springs Gazette, a college chaplain, and others) on the influence of evangelicalism in Colorado Springs. The panel discussion focused on the centrality of recruiting leaders of the religious right to the city as part of an economic revitalization program in the early 1990s; part of the story which rarely receives due attention elsewhere. The next segment gave an op…

Mormonism in 92 languages

By Joanna Brooks

I’m headed to Salt Lake City this evening to attend the semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the world of Mormonism, Conference is a big deal: a chance to see and hear words of counsel directly from the General Authorities, including Church president Thomas Monson, and women Church leaders as well. The messages are usually familiar, centering around devotion to God, family, and gospel, but they c…

Don’t Blame Religion for Boston Bombings

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…lementary School; the July 2012 movie theater shootings by James Holmes in Aurora, Colorado; the August 2012 attack on the Milwaukee Sikh Gurdwara by Wade Michael Page; the 2010 Times Square bombing attempt by Faisal Shahzad; and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic park bombing by Eric Robert Rudolph, to name a few. Some of these were committed by Christians, some by Muslims, and some by those with no particular religious affiliation at all. In almost all ca…

Did America Just Dodge the Next Sarah Palin?

By Joanna Brooks

…of Saratoga Springs, Utah, a recently-incorporated, fast-growing suburb of Salt Lake City. She had a newly redrawn Congressional district that put six-term Congressman Jim Matheson, a Blue Dog Democrat and a member of a politically prominent Utah Mormon family, in a precarious position. She had a big-time spot as a speaker at the Republican National Convention. She had Republican All-Stars like Condoleeza Rice, John Boehner, Paul Ryan, and Mitt Ro…

Utah’s New Senator And The Intellectual Decline Of LDS Conservatism

By Joanna Brooks

…rt state “nullification” of federal laws. He even characterized the 70% of Utah land protected as federal wilderness as occupied territory. Clearly, the Mike Lee for Senate campaign was designed to appeal to the deeply held feelings of LDS people who do take Skousen seriously. Lee’s campaign secured an endorsement from Cleon Skousen’s son Paul. It implicitly and explicitly appealed to Mormon folk doctrine sacralizing the US Constitution and prophe…

Unnatural Disaster: When Conservative Theology & The Free Market Meet Wildfires

By Paul Harvey

…lyptic.” The fire struck especially hard in the geographic quadrant of the city that hosts many of the best-known religious activist organizations, and has attracted a large population of religious conservatives who see in Colorado Springs a center for the religious and political values they seek to espouse. Seven of the homes lost belonged to those who worked for one of the oldest of these organizations, The Navigators—including the current direc…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent. Pope Benedict XVI ended his heavily protested visit to England with a heartfelt apology for German bombings of England during the Battle of Britain; though he refused to accept Christian responsibility for the Holocaust, blaming it instead on pagans and atheists. Given that Cardinal Walter Kasp…

Colorado Springs Massacre Captures the Christian Nationalist ‘Monster In The Mirror’

By Lucas Kwong

…n version of the terror-triumph complex. There’s one other detail from the Colorado Springs tragedy that illustrates, with disturbing clarity, Monster In The Mirror’s central thesis. As a homophobe and transphobe steeped in Christian (specifically Mormon) theology, the killer likely operated on the conviction that LGBTQ+ people menace the nuclear family—and, perhaps, White mothers and wives most of all. But as illustrated by his own violent relati…