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How ‘The Seven Missions’ of the ‘Doomsday Couple’ Connect Them to the Larger LDS Prophecy Subculture

By Christopher James Blythe

…ree mysterious deaths, including their former spouses,are available at any number of major news sources across the country. But few of these outlets have been able to offer much insight into a document released last week, a numbered list that Chad sent to Lori in January 2019 entitled, “Seven missions to accomplish together,” which reveals how their beliefs relate to this larger movement. The list as it appears in the document is as follows: Trans…

The ‘C’ Word: What We’re Missing When We Talk About ‘White Privilege’

By Murali Balaji

…at’s been embedded into our laws and public policies. And that’s what this book has really been about for me, is highlighting that which is there and making the invisible structures visible. That’s a big big part of this book. So it’s absolutely an evolution and I think that we’ve got to see the majorities in this country taking a good hard look at their own communities and all of us seeing how whiteness and Christianity has been embedded into his…

Spiritual-Not-Religious or Just Lazy?

By Kate Blanchard

…he prodigal son and his bitter elder brother are strikingly apropos of the book’s overarching concern: “resentment is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other guy to die,” she notes wisely, even amidst nagging thoughts like, “Why am I struggling and that jerk seems to be rushing by me, coasting through life?” In short, this book is a very honest confession of how much Lillian Daniel needs church, as well as how tired she is of having to de…

The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself

By Shane Burley

…i society. But they carried those experiences into agencies like Mossad, a number of whose early agents were Nakam members. Other Nokmim led Jewish forces against Palestinians in the nakba, the disaster and expulsion of Arabs that adjoined Israel’s foundation. Kovner became a propaganda officer, writing poems that chastised Jewish troops for the emotional strife many felt when engaging in war crimes against Arabs and for retreating when victory be…

A New Book Argues That This ‘Divine Institution’ is the Key to Understanding White Evangelical Culture

By Seth Dowland

…nthropologist Sophie Bjork-James, who recounts this story in her sharp new book, The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family, the participants were uniformly white and well-off. But these self-described literalists immediately—almost instinctively—disregarded the literal meaning of this passage. Jesus wasn’t “condemning money or wealth,” the group agreed, just warning his followers not to put anything before their relatio…

Is It Immoral to Believe in Miracles?

By Noah Berlatsky

…dead, Shapiro says, is a failure of both reason and ethics. He directs the book toward those who still believe, in an effort to get them to convert. One imagines Shapiro showing up at a church and pressing copies of his book on unsuspecting Christians. “Excuse me, ma’am, but I wanted to talk to you about Jesus Christ, who is not our savior…” I’m skeptical that Shapiro’s skepticism is actually going to persuade the folks he seems to think he’s pers…

Significant Changes to LDS Scripture Reflect Shifting Church Views on Racist History

By Joanna Brooks

…r significant change is to the introduction to the Pearl of Great Price, a book of scripture long presented as a direct translation of Egyptian papyri obtained by Joseph Smith but shown by Egyptologists to have no connection to their source material. The new edition now characterizes the Book of Abraham as an “inspired translation” of the papyri. Changes to the introduction to the now-canonized official announcement of the end of institutionally-s…

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

By Sanjiv Bhattacharya

…se of the Christian Right in America. I’m also envious of Sam Harris whose book, The End of Faith, was a brilliant blast of dissent at a time when religion appeared to be on the rampage in America. What’s your next book? There are a few ideas cooking but I don’t want to say too much. I might be an atheist but I believe in jinxing. Correction: The book designer’s name has been corrected to Briar Levit, 4/24/11 -Eds….

Immigration and Anti-Immigration in the Book of Mormon-Belt

By Joanna Brooks

…ants too. The immigration debate has brought out some real ugliness in the Book of Mormon-belt, including the nationally-publicized release of a watchlist of 1300 alleged illegal immigrants in Utah composed by an anonymous vigilante group. But for me the deeper story here is about how Mormons— Anglo, Latino, and otherwise—are grappling with our tradition’s growth into a global religion of more than 13 million members. Today, Mormons include both R…

“LGBT People Have a Lot to Teach Christians”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…look like that anymore and maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe all the waning numbers will force us to ask, “What does it mean to be a successful church?” I think it means practicing those sacraments and creating that community. How did you get started blogging and are you surprised by the immense community of followers you’ve amassed over the years? I started because I always wanted to write a book. I was a writer even as a kid. This is all I ever w…