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LDS Church Issues New Statement on Immigration

By Joanna Brooks

…immigration in part because the immigration debate has been most heated in western states where Mormons constitute a politically significant portion of the population, such as Arizona and Utah. Russell Pearce, the author of Arizona’s infamous SB 1070, is a member of the LDS Church. And last week in Utah, an anonymous group calling itself “Concerned Citizens of the United States” distributed a watchlist with the names, social security numbers, and…

Introducing the Dr. Who Media Club

By James F. McGrath

As an RD reader you now have an assignment. On the western side of the pond, Doctor Who has always been a bit of a cult thing. Outside of its appearances on PBS in the late ’70s and early ’80s, the BBC’s longest-running science fiction show in history has rarely been seen in the U.S. It always carried more than a bit of mystique, serving as a sort of secret handshake among the most discerning and dedicated geeks. When BBC Wales resurrected the s…

Beinart’s Indictment And The Evangelical Right

By Sarah Posner

…reflexively defends the Israeli government’s policies, but it is actively promoting the idea that the conflict there is not over land or politics, but is a clash of civilizations and religions. “Freedom” is not about human rights for all; it’s about Christianity ascendant. At the Freedom Federation Summit in Lynchburg, Virginia, last month, an entire session was devoted to “Israel, the Middle East, and Military Readiness.” (The event as a whole w…

Burning Man: Religious Event or Sheer Hedonism?

By Lee Gilmore

…expressions are increasingly displaced outside the bounds of the dominant Western cultural concepts of “religion.” Burning Man is on the vanguard of contemporary religious movements that resist easy classification by favoring eclecticism and hybridity. Yet in articulating a clear ethos that places a core emphasis on building and supporting community—both inside and outside the confines of the week-long event—Burning Man manages to be individualis…

Who Says the Tea Party isn’t a Religious Movement?, Part II

By Joanna Brooks

…ze and establish the faith more effectively beyond the religion’s American Western ethnic core. But this “disenchantment” or “secularization” has left many multi-generational Mormons longing for the intensity of our old identity as “peculiar people.” Daughtrey writes: In a secularized, routinized, or demythologized Mormonism (which looks more like mainline Protestantism than the mystical tradition established by Joseph Smith), the religion is miss…

The Kids Are All Wrong: Texas Tosses The Enlightenment

By Burke Gerstenschlager

…Texas than just a debate about events and dates. It’s about who we are as Westerners—and I mean Western civilization—and how we think of ourselves as individuals and citizens. Because in Texas, that’s about to change big time. And if we all buy their textbooks, it’s going to change for us, too. If anything, this little escapade that started about national textbook sales and has now turned into an epic ideological battle about how the West underst…

Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…that the new museum would promote tolerance “just as building health clubs promoted health.” This was not the first time that the Wiesenthal Center and the LA Museum of Tolerance formulated its own foreign policy; and in doing so implied that they were speaking for the American Jewish community at large. The center endorsed enthusiastically the Bush administration’s Iraq War, and in 2006 it dubbed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez an anti-Semite. A…

The Mullet and the Mullahs: Iran’s War on Hair Reveals Ahmadinejad’s Weakness

By Hussein Rashid

…ty. The language of the haircut restrictions centers around “Islamic” and “Western.” It is not coincidental that these events are happening in close temporal proximity to one another. The New York Times emphasizes the “clash of civilizations” myth in this ruling, without really thinking through the implications or causes of the ban 30 years after the revolution. These two elements, the Green Movement and the European marginalization of their Musli…

Why Creationists Aren’t Wrong

By Davidson Loehr

…oignant, and now sad—to the denial of evolution. Religious thinkers in the Western Bible-based religions have known for over two thousand years that if Chance is given any role at all in determining things, then God has no significant role. This was the core of the Greek philosophy of Epicureanism, which held that we can plan and work, and accomplish some good things, but nothing and no one controls events, for Chance has its way with us all. The…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…lly tend to reject Marxism as a philosophical source. It is too white, too Western and, tends to include only economic class, not race, in its power analysis. Cone’s theological sources are the bible and black experience. If one is going to argue against his theology, one must argue against these sources not Marx. So far, Beck has said nothing about black experience and nearly everything he has claimed about the bible has been untrue. His objectio…