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Suicide Leads to Calls for Improved Treatment of LGBT Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…uality. I’ve heard LDS Church members ask whether excommunication is the best institutional response to gay Mormons in acute spiritual struggle or crisis. I’ve also heard Mormons reflect on how despite some signs of increased awareness and outreach by top LDS leaders, messages of understanding and compassion are not getting down the line to local congregations. Every time a gay Mormon interacts with a local pastoral leader, he or she faces what so…

Refusing Religion, Claiming the Future: A Roundtable Discussion on “The Nones Are Alright”

By Peter Laarman

…ion and have no interest in returning or pursuing a spiritual/religious quest. Most, I would think, for many of the same reasons that we hear in Kaya’s book. Others are still interested in being Christian, but are completely disinterested in being evangelical. This manifests itself in a small percentage heading for Mainline Protestant or Catholic churches, but most are either sticking it out or forming other kinds of churches and communities that…

Walking Dead and Zombie Ethics, or “Don’t Fight the Zombies. You Can’t Win”

By Kelly J. Baker

…hat zombies are us. They can be in our worst forms, but sometimes in our best. Mostly, I know that if they are us or they aren’t, we still must reckon with their rampant destruction in zombie media. Killing these monsters becomes a thorny problem either way, and yet so much of the genre relies upon brutality of obliterating these enemies. Us or them. Survival at all costs. The glorification of violence in zombie media bothers me. Zombies are eithe…

“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…food. And then you move closer to capitalism like that seen in the United States. You still have problems. You don’t have enough money for infrastructure. If you did have enough money for infrastructure, you wouldn’t have enough for poverty alleviation or for libraries, and so on. But maybe what we have in America is just about right: a system near the middle, trending towards the capitalist end. Then we can rely on inner development to create mo…

Mitt, the Marriotts, and Porn

By Joanna Brooks

…y for them, Marriott guests will still be able to enjoy the Book of Mormon stashed in the nightstand drawer in Marriott hotel rooms, courtesy of the mega-Mormon Marriott family.) The hotel chain says that the decision is economic: in-room porn profits have tanked because the porn industry has moved on-line. But it’s being reported that the move is actually an effort to protect Romney against another round of flak from socially conservative and…

Departure of the Queen

By Amina Wadud

…visit. Perhaps it is the deafening silence of being so removed from the hustle and bustle of the cities and even from my own family that makes me feel a bit melancholy. I should probably catch ride outside the gates of the estate where I can have bars for my cell phone and get in touch with them later today. Before the shaykh arrives, I continue with my Qur’an reading. I don’t use the tiny mp3 player anymore because this last juz’ includes most o…

This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…stions, but in Old Testament studies, post-liberal really has to do with post-historical-critical. Dan: So in a couple of sense you have some sympathies. Walter: That’s right. That preoccupies me a great deal. I’m doing some lectures at the Trinity Wall Street church, and the session next January is going to be on how the church can now think about the Bible, and one of the issues has to do with critical and post-critical and all that. Dan: The st…

Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…—that’s piling up already—suggesting they’ve been duped by a con-man who just last week admitted that he didn’t think anyone would take his pledge to “keep jobs in America” seriously. Call 1-844-USA-0234 and enter your zip code to be connected with your representatives in Washington. Tell them why you oppose each nominee, and keep calling. Ask your friends and neighbors to do the same. Use the liberal bubble so many of us reside in as a safe space…

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…rced to. The rationalists of the West, the free peoples of Middle Earth, must step in to liberate her. III. If Islam Were a Race, Would Islamophobia Be Racist? The right question to ask is why Muslims need liberation. Why can’t they (we) liberate ourselves? There is a racist logic within Islamophobia, which presents from time to time in the way Muslims are described and treated. As a single, indivisible whole. And, of course, a miserable one at…

A Sacred Encounter with Erykah Badu’s Controversial Nude Video

By Tamura Lomax

…r album sales spike adding to her personal bottom line, she is nonetheless steadfastly “evolving” towards personal “liberation,” a “self” unhindered by social meanings, homogeneous stereotypes, social demands and cultural policing. With every garment removed, Badu symbolically rid herself of the mythical layers of “black womanhood” that have tormented black female subjects for centuries. In addition, she re-appropriated the material markers of the…