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From Here to Eternity: Of Mormons and Celestial Marriage

By Holly Welker

…orums for devout LDS whose spouses have rejected LDS belief, such as Faces East. The Great Calling of Homemaking Furthermore, these attitudes about marriage also explain the existence of Mormon feminist blogs like Exponent II, Zelophehad’s Daughters, or the more well-established Feminist Mormon Housewives, which receives in the neighborhood of a million hits a month. Given that young Mormon women are encouraged to get educations, get married, and…

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…s Muslim Plurality For the first time ever (or perhaps just since sometime between 1000 and 1600 CE when The Plague decimated the European Christian population, according to footnote #2 of the report), in 2070 there will be more Muslims in the world than Christians. Between 2010 and 2050 the Muslim population is projected to grow by 73%, far outpacing the total population growth rate of 35%. Islam is not likely to keep up that growth rate forever…

Gays in Great Danger in Iraq

By Bill Berkowitz

…cleric. While homosexuality is prohibited nearly everywhere in the Middle East, homosexual acts are punishable by up to seven years in prison in Iraq. ABC News reported that “The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs believes as many as 30 people have been killed during the last three months because they were — or were perceived to be — gay.” A Human Right Watch Iraq country report 2009, pointed out that “Lesbian, gay…

Farewell, Mr. Bush

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…recrimination is rendered moot. And still worse: Name your war as a battle between good and evil, and it is sure to be “uncompromising.” You do not negotiate with, and you do not talk to, the enemy; you simply demand unconditional surrender and envision a world in which all of your opponents have been captured or killed. As the Roman historian, Tacitus, put it two millennia ago: “They create a desert and call this peace.” The final legacy of the s…

How Mormon is Mitt Romney? Over 50 Jokes For Trump

By Joanna Brooks

…the Secret Service with the Danites. Mitt is so Mormon his Secret Service codename will be Mahonri Moriancumr. Mitt is so Mormon he thinks Harvard is the BYU of the east. Mitt is so Mormon he thought the debt ceiling was something that could only happen in a temple. Mitt is so Mormon, he doesn’t campaign: he “fellowships.” Mitt is so Mormon that he’s installing two basketball hoops at the inaugural ball so there’s a place to hang decorations. Mit…

Consumerism’s New Frontier: The Preschool Set

By Peter Laarman

…nce it flows, He sees it in his joy; The Youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature’s Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. Wordsworth has much more to say about those clouds of glory we are born with in his psychologically astute Prelude. But here in “Intimations” we are given the essence in a perfect verse stanza: as infa…

Is “Israel-Firster” Anti-Semitic?

By Sarah Posner

…matters the last time we met on Bloggingheads, and in particular the chasm between the reality on the ground there and what Wildman has called a “mythical” vision of Israel as the land of milk and honey. Remnick: Although Israel as imagined by Theodor Herzl and built by the generation of David Ben-Gurion was never intended to be a replica of the Anglo-American model—its political culture, even now, is closer to that of the European social democrac…

The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorist Continues with New Zealand Attack

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…e with the idea of a society dominated by white Christians. The comparison between Tarrant and the Norwegian terrorist Andres Breivik is relevant for a number of reasons. Like Breivik, Tarrant was part of a wider subculture of hatred. He likely thought of himself not as a terrorist but as a soldier in a great and hidden war, carrying out a mission on behalf of an imagined constituency of supporters. Like Breivik, he dressed up in military garb wit…

A Boundary-Busting Memoir of Love, Mental Illness, and Being Muslim in America

By Haroon Moghul

…vari. I get that it’s about the origins of modern Europe, but why does the East have to be such a malicious place? What’s your next book? I’m working on three novels, a proper trilogy, that I can best describe as a cross between science fiction, Bollywood, and alternative history. The first, Americans, takes place in the 21st and 17th centuries, and tells the story of two best friends who get stranded outside each other’s timelines and try to find…

The War on Terror is Over; Tahrir Buried It

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…violent and divisive political past. Even gridlock between extreme elements that nonetheless agree to participate in a democratic electoral system is an advance over the savage civil war between a secular dictator and religious terrorists. In this sense even a tumultuous Tahrir Square is much better than the heartbreak of Ground Zero….