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Mormon Group Digging for Scriptural City of Zarahemla in Iowa is a Portrait of Religious Nationalism

By Hanna Seariac

…early Church leaders saw the United States as the promised land, designate American nationalism as their interpretative lens. Their geography model rests upon this American nationalism that they saw in these early historical sources. In turn, Heartland dependence on American nationalism has led to associations with right-wing ideologies, including QAnon, anti-vaccination stances, colonial narratives, creationism, and white supremacy. These ideolog…

Ahmadinejad Aside, Anti-Racism Conference Was Deeply Flawed

By Austin Dacey

…approach is all the more relevant, and the new US administration’s posture of assertive engagement at the United Nations is all the more welcome. When it comes to freedom of expression, the Obama era may see a narrowing of the policy gap between Europe and the United States; not because the Americans have finally come around to the European position, but because the Europeans are beginning to realize that the Americans may just have gotten speech…

The “Majority Victimhood”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…round to gays and lesbians – an uncomfortable silence permeated the room. “Americans are a tolerant people. But a majority believes that the sexual practices of gays, whether a result of nature or nurture, are both morally wrong and medically ruinous. Many consider this ‘reactionary’ or ‘homophobic.’ But our beliefs are rooted in the Old and New Testament, in natural law and tradition, even in the writing of that paragon of the Enlightenment, Thom…

“The Camp Is a Ceremony”: A Report From Standing Rock

By Marion Grau

…ngered state is a huge improvement. In Oceti Sakowin camp on Standing Rock reservation, we learned this week about the elemental nature of water and its centrality to life. “Mni wiconi,” Lakota for “water is life,” is the battle cry of this camp and this movement—and it will not go silent no matter what happens with this particular pipeline. The movement is already far bigger and visitors are encouraged to take the fight for the preservation of wa…

Will Internet Kill Mormonism Too? Or Just Missionaries?

By Holly Welker

…ch to missionaries to investigators, I’ll give it a cautious thumbs up. My reservation is that I worry about the effects of this approach to missionary work on the missionaries. The article mentions that missionaries spend “11 hours a day, six days at a stretch” in front of a computer. Given that sitting is supposedly the new smoking, I see this as a very serious health threat for the 18- to 21-year-olds who constitute the bulk of the missionary f…

Polygamy, Genius, and the Origin of Religion

By Michael Schulson

…how up in proclivities toward certain behaviors. I say possible with a key reservation: even if these proclivities were there, we’d probably be terribly equipped to discern them. There’s no question that male and female roles are deeply conditioned by culture, by physical differences, and by power—which is to say, by patriarchy. A whole lot is happening here outside of any evolution-and-genetics explanation. Additionally, researchers are coming at…

Guns and Babies: What Newtown Does NOT Teach Us

By Anthea Butler

…aura of fear that makes all of us uneasy and unstable. Our moral core, our American Exceptionalism is not about freedom—it’s about violence. We’ve anointed the Second Amendment as sacred scripture and a charter of freedom: the right to bear arms, so that we can kill. We are a vicious, violent nation. And these days it’s our violence most of all that makes us stand out. Americans must begin to assess our humanity, and view each other as human being…

The Battle for the Bible Against Christian Nationalism Seeks to Continue Historic Campaign

By Frederick Clarkson

…racial identities. Rev. Barber noted that he’s White, Tuscarora (a Native American tribe) and African American, and has had to “recover from some deep hatred” from the time the Klan burned a cross in front of the home of his uncle—who provided him with a shotgun in case they came in through the back door. Nosie added that it’s vital to stay on “the spiritual path” to avoid becoming like what we oppose, but he warned that it won’t be easy. “By fig…

Ignore the Rod: the Parental Rights Amendment Isn’t About Spanking

By Kathryn Joyce

…oduction, “The need to protect parents’ rights has struck a nerve with the American people. In an era where congressional leadership and the administration offer the federal government as the only solution to the challenges we face, Americans are starting to realize that no sphere of their lives is off-limits from government encroachment. Specifically, parents are recognizing the real possibility of being told by the government how to manage their…

40,000 Fundamentalists Can’t Be Wrong: Investigating Mormon Polygamy

By Sanjiv Bhattacharya

…k me as tremendously exciting. Not to mention the fact that their faith is American—it could scarcely be more so—and yet they live in hiding, worshipping at secret churches with scores of secret wives. I couldn’t resist. I wrote a few articles and made a documentary, all of which focused on Warren Jeffs and the FLDS, as most media coverage still does. But it soon became clear that the FLDS was just one group. There were 30,000 other polygamists ou…