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Revealing Joseph Smith’s (Well-Known) Polygamy Doesn’t Address the LDS Church’s Bigger Problem

By Joanna Brooks

…uestions found greater support from the LDS Church leadership, instead of being left to independent historians, lay theologians, bloggers and podcasters, and the Facebook-zealous feminists, anti-racist activists, and LGBT allies of Mormonism’s progressive margins. “Perhaps this is just the reality of who we are as twenty-first century Mormons,” I offered. “Perhaps being a twenty-first century Mormon means inheriting a tradition that is not exactly…

Off That (Rationalist Anthem)

By Lauri Lebo

Here’s the latest provocative hip-hop video from self-described rap troubadour Baba Brinkman in which he blasts pseudo-science and irrationality. A Chaucer scholar who started out rapping the Canterbury Tales, lately he’s been branching out into the world of science and religion. In 2008, the Vancouver artist developed the utterly brilliant Rap Guide to Evolution. I met him last year while he and I were on a tour in the U.K. in celebration of the…

Death in the Desert: Riding With the Samaritans

By Lauri Lebo

…trying not to say. Finally, she explained as delicately as she could, for dental identification to help identify the remains. The mother broke down in tears. Rodriguez hung up the phone and cried. Guilty of the Gospel Samaritans is not specifically a religious humanitarian organization, but many of the Samaritan volunteers such as Brother David say they are motivated by the words of Christ—this is simply a manifestation of their faith. Formerly k…

In Vitro v. Dignitas Personae: Teacher Fired for Fertility Treatment Sues Diocese

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…s that the diocese actually paid for the treatments directly from its own funds. The state of self-funded insurance programs by religious employers has been a sticking point in the negotiations over contraception coverage. Clearly, a Catholic institution with a self-funded insurance program has a more direct role in providing services than a Catholic institution which simply contracts with an insurance company. In the former case, if participants…

Who Would Jesus Marry?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…women in his circle as he and his followers understood it. But there is abundant evidence, both in contradictions within the Bible as it was canonized in the late fourth century and from extra-biblical artifacts that show that women did have leadership roles from the earliest days of the Church, as both priests and deacons. The “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” fragment adds to a bounty of evidence that women did hold both lay and ordained ministry leaders…

Is the Episcopal Church a Bain Capital Investor?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…Romney himself worried that investing in the firm on behalf of the LDS Church might land him in hell, shouldn’t a generally progressive, mainline Protestant denomination be actively concerned about where and how it invests?…

Mitt Romney: Wooden Pastor or Real Boy?

By Mary Barker

…assion for one’s fellow parishioners are the bread and butter of my Mormon community—as well as my Catholic community, and my Methodist one, and even my Zen meditation group (I’ve expanded my spiritual associations over the years). But there is a compassion that reaches beyond the fellow brother or sister of our spiritual communities and that the Republican Party is hard-pressed to understand. So without demeaning in the least Mitt’s service rende…

US Bishops Defund Immigrant Rights Group Over LGBT Equality

By Patricia Miller

…ncreasingly aggressive movement of Catholic culture warriors” of “[u]sing guilt by association and other tactics from the McCarthy-era playbook” to undermine the CCHD. It said the American Life League and its allies are “putting at risk vital anti-poverty work and creating a culture of fear around community organizing” that “is draining resources from critical social justice advocacy at a time when more than 1 in 5 children live in poverty and inc…

Finding Nonreligious Happiness at the RNC

By Peter Montgomery

…vention center, someone handed me a booklet called The Way to Happiness: A Common Sense Guide to Better Living. The rules in chapter one are indeed common sense: Get care when you are ill; Keep your body clean; Preserve your teeth; Eat properly; and Get Rest. Other rules caution against harmful drugs, excessive drinking, and sexual promiscuity. Two chapters are devoted to the Golden Rule, stated both positively and negatively (“Try not to do to th…

When Religion Becomes a Trap Rather Than a Safety Net

By Holly Welker

…en she met my dad, who was serving a mission in Austria, and he helped her come to the U.S. It was supposed to be a dream come true for her—to marry a returned missionary from Utah. But my dad wasn’t the devout rule-following, church-going husband she had counted on. They were like oil and water and my dad was so unhappy that he quickly began leaving for months at a time. So here she is, alone in this strange foreign country and with this husband…