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Mormon Leaks: Boring Meetings with Interesting Implications

By Mary Barker

…heir needs. Members would hold their allotted land as stewards. They could manage it as they saw fit, but not sell it or even pass it on to wives and children, and anyone’s land could be subject to division even after the stewardship had been awarded. Brigham Young continued to implement Joseph’s vision as the beleaguered Saints moved West, and rebelled against such economic axioms as the profit motive, market price and trade. Despite this economi…

Water Water Everywhere

By Amina Wadud

…picture. In the United States, the regular sink in a house is difficult to manage the entire elaborate version without considerable effort. So, it is common for local mosques to have a wudu’ station constructed. These are pretty nifty. For one thing, the faucets are about knee-high. In front of them are low seats made of waterproof materials, like marble or ceramic tile. Then in front of the seat is a long drain allowing the flow of water to empty…

Will God-Gaming Alter the Bible?

By Rachel Wagner

…raham, and “as the leader of their tribe” they will construct villages and manage resources—even keep a budget. Players will “have to decide between diplomacy and warfare” as they “go on a quest to go to the Promised Land” while “leading Abraham’s tribe from Ur to Haran and finally to Canaan.” The game appears to be similar in some ways to Civilization-style games, a type of “god-game” in which players manage decisions from a privileged vantage po…

Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…rt of Chinese (and perhaps, more generally, East Asian) polities to (micro)manage institutions at all levels of the culture: to bring them under the bureaucratic control of the state. Among the various types of institutions, religious ones have been seen as a perennial and special object of concern, in part because of the extent to which they penetrate all levels of the society, and in part because of their potential to challenge the power of the…

‘Hardwired’ for Hetero Marriage, LDS Tension Mounts Over LGBT Rights

By Joanna Brooks

…issues”—and to a place where conscience compelled him to ensure that most American workplaces had protections for LGBT workers his own Church did not offer its employees. The complexity of Senator Reid’s own position suggests that as it turns out—twentieth-century LDS bureaucratic branding efforts notwithstanding—Mormons are actually subject to the same kinds of growth and conflict as every other people of faith, even if they tend to manage thos…

From Murderous to ‘MORG’: Mormonism Meets the Press

By Joanna Brooks

…ory—think Abraham, Augustine, the Reformation. How individuals process and manage such conflicts discloses important information about the nature of their faith, their methods of decision-making, and the quality of their moral deliberation. Is there any moment at which Mitt Romney found himself in conflict with his own Church? We know, for example, that Romney (like many other Mormons) celebrated the Church’s lifting of the 1978 ban on black ordi…

No One Can Tell I’m a Muslim: All-American Muslim Debuts

By Su?ad Abdul Khabeer

…ge anti-Muslim bigotry, choosing a cast of immigrants and first-generation Americans, all Arab American save the newbie white convert, may just propel the show into another set of tropes: all Muslims are Arabs, all Arabs are Muslim, and all Muslims are immigrants. Indeed some Muslims are Arab, some Arabs are Muslim, and some Muslims are immigrants. But many are not. Many will celebrate the show, and those who do may read this review (if they get t…

Before We Scold DeSean Jackson and Others For Anti-Semitism We Need To Talk About ‘Chosenness’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…lbany or Washington—are controlled by Jews. I think they are controlled by Americans, and the American Negro situation is a direct result of this control. And anti-Semitism among Negroes, inevitable as it may be, and understandable, alas, as it is, does not operate to menace this control, but only to confirm it. It is not the Jew who controls the American drama. It is the Christian. At the time of Baldwin’s writing these were some of the most powe…

American Fever: A Tale of Romance and Pestilence

By Michael A. Elliott

…a cure for the virus. Instead, the Internet is what allows the narrator to manage his survival, both through his writing and through his business. It is also what creates the experience of the novel. Though Hall plans to publish American Fever in book form after its conclusion, I don’t think the experience of reading it in print will be as rich as reading it on the screen. Much of what makes American Fever tick is in the way that it can blur the f…

Muslims Helped Legitimize Lowes’ Decision to Pull Ads From All-American Muslim

By Hussein Rashid

…that actions have consequences. I would love to see a second season of All-American Muslim (AAM) that comes to Jackson Heights in Queens to do South Asian Muslims, or to Chicago to cover African-American Muslims. So, what these criticizers did is to create a narrative that even Muslims don’t believe that this show represents Muslims. There was no positive or constructive criticism, just complaints that the critics themselves weren’t on TV. It take…