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BYU Skinny Jean Controversy: Sexism, Sizeism, or Standards?

By Joanna Brooks

…s in Utah were experiencing increased interaction with non-Mormons through travel, commerce, and media. Today, increased emphasis is being placed on conservative dress standards, described colloquially in Mormon communities as “modesty.” The new emphasis has been a point of reflection for Mormon bloggers and commentators—especially parents and those who work with young people and who observe that dress standards enforcement often places a dispropo…

Christian Passover, Yes or No?: A Response to Rabbi Moffic

By David Greenspoon

…ritual was indeed often facilitated by knowledgeable lay people who would travel from house to house helping those who did not have the capacity to conduct the seder themselves. Finally, while the seder meal might not be a sacrament per se, it is still a uniquely Jewish telling of a particularly Jewish experience. While “not under the authority of one person of group”, the ownership of Jewish rituals and practices can safely be claimed by the com…

Vatican Sexual Abuse and the High Priests of Hollywood?

By Frances Kissling

…the Guardian UK that “comparative tragedy is a dangerous path on which to travel.” The issue of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church is far from resolved and denial by many, even the most progressive, is still in play. We are, to say the least, deeply embarrassed by the behavior of abusers and the superiors and colleagues who covered up or ignored their abuse. Some religious superiors and the Catholic media divide the survivors into good and…

A Story in Which the Gay Mormon Does Not Die

By Joanna Brooks

…nd by her. Now, at 21, Jason and Alex stand together still, and Jason will travel to be with her for the Saving Alex book release event March 7 at Powell’s bookstore in Portland. Members of your own faith community who express unconditional acceptance—regardless of what religious leaders do or say Alex was failed by many people, from the local Church leader who did not report her abuse when she tearfully confessed it, to citizens who turned a blin…

Culture Warriors Surrender, But Battles Rage On

By Patricia Miller

…on pills, to regulations designed to shut clinics down and forced women to travel great distances to get an abortion. Is the culture war on abortion over? Has the right given up? Not by a long shot. Swaim also has a limited view of exactly who is driving the culture wars. It’s true that evangelicals like Moore have called for less focus on the culture wars and a renewed emphasis on the gospel. But evangelicals are only part of the equation. The U….

You Gotta Have Heart: A Response to Critics of “Why I’m Not an Organ Donor”

By Kristel Clayville

…the knowledge of what living organ donors can legally be compensated for (travel, some lost wages, etc) and on the ethics of using social media to seek out living donors. I’m currently working on a project that would expand the idea of social support to potentially include institutions, such as churches, that are willing to provide the transportation and daily care that’s required to recover post-transplant. Currently, there’s a preference for tr…

Goliath the Israel Slayer: Why Max Blumenthal’s New Book is a Painful Read

By Shaul Magid

…ans] joined me in their spacious salon, while their son, Elik, prepared to travel to New York City, where he had accepted a faculty position to teach in the Jewish Studies Department at Columbia University.” There are actually three errors in this one sentence. Elik didn’t go to New York to accept a faculty position, he went as a graduate student. And he wasn’t in the Jewish Studies Department at Columbia University, which doesn’t exist,* he was i…

Women2Drive in Saudi Arabia

By Joanna Brooks

…fatwa against women driving. The participants were punished with work and travel bans and have remained generally silent about their efforts in the decades since. The advent of web 2.0 (including YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter) and the Arab Spring have dramatically reshaped opportunities for Saudi women’s rights activists to publicize and grow their campaign. One group has even launched a Manal Driving School online to provide education and resou…

Carrie Prejean, God’s Prophet or Porn Star?

By Paula M. Cooey

…her arm. She struggled to articulate her sense of her newfound mission to travel around the country urging adolescents to abstain from sex in order to avoid early pregnancy and motherhood. She tried to find words to express how baby Trip himself was a blessing not a mistake, but premarital sex and pregnancy were to be avoided. She simply kept repeating to Matt Lauer, “It’s hard work all the time [to rear a child].” Her father stepped in and simpl…

Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah

By Haroon Moghul

…om a much broader range of Muslim countries, but organizing five months of travel was arduous and expensive enough, and reducing a broader range of countries into a readable book would have taken time and money I did not possess. Traveling from India to Egypt seemed to offer a fairly simple way of linking my south Asian heritage with the history of the regions where Islamic jurisprudence came of age. A less tangible motive also helps explain the b…