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How (Not) to Understand Romney’s Time as an LDS Bishop

By Joanna Brooks

While Romney-watchers feign shock in reaction to Mitt Romney’s People magazine confession that he once tried a cigarette and a beer (both forbidden according to the LDS Church’s dietary code, “The Word of Wisdom”), more substantial coverage this week is focusing on Romney’s service as bishop of his LDS congregation in Belmont, Massachusetts in the 1980s. On Monday, the Washington Post offered a revealing account of Bishop Romney’s interactions w…

As US Reaches a 1940s Fork in the Road — Which Path Will We Choose?

By John Stoehr

Readers of the Editorial Board are familiar with my obsession with political time—or how one party and its ideas prevail with a majority of Americans for four or five decades before falling into a period of transition, after which the other party and its ideas prevail. But most don’t know why I’m obsessed. I’ll tell you. It’s because I’ve been feeling hopeless. I hate feeling hopeless. Knowing that history isn’t static—knowing that it moves in re…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

She’s got everything delightful, she’s got everything I need, A breeze in the pines and the sun and bright moonlight, lazing in the sunshine yes indeed. ~ “Sugar Magnolia” My childhood home was equidistant between two of the Grateful Dead’s regular Bay Area venues: Berkeley’s Greek Theater and Oakland’s Kaiser Convention Center. When the Deadheads came to Berkeley, they camped in the parking lot behind my high school, and when they came to Oaklan…

Romney’s Religion of Happiness vs. Gingrich’s Religion of Grievance

By Sarah Posner

JACKSONVILLE, FL — In talking about the Declaration of Independence at a campaign rally this morning, Mitt Romney emphasized pursuit of happiness. Gingrich, on the other hand, has been emphasizing the “life, liberty” part—as in how the “secular left” wants to take yours away. Romney wants you to be happy. Gingrich wants you to be aggrieved. Romney doesn’t mention religion. Gingrich wants you to think the “secular left” is robbing you of yours. Th…

LDS Apostle Says Same-Sex Attraction Can be Overcome

By Joanna Brooks

There are so many messages to take away from this weekend’s 180th Semi-Annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which drew more than 100,000 visitors to the LDS Conference Center and was watched and listened to by cable, satellite, and internet transmission in 92 languages by millions more around the world. Those who tuned in heard Dieter Uchtdorf, a member of the Church’s First Presidency, promote a timely me…

Protesters in Washington DC, the day before the January 6 insurrection, wrapped in American flags blow shofars.

Netanyahu’s Genocidal Religious Rhetoric isn’t Just an Appeal to the Israeli Right — He Has Another Constituency in Mind

By Brock Bahler

As a horrifying humanitarian crisis unfolds in Palestine/Israel, observers have been alarmed by the Israeli leadership’s deployment of religious rhetoric and colonialist talking points in its response to the Hamas attacks. On October 28th, for example, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referenced Bible passages in which God promises and enacts a total annihilation of the Amalekites—every man, woman, and child: “You must remember what Amalek has d…

The Birth of Un-Cool: How Disgusted Liberals Became Neoconservatives

By Michelle Goldberg

In the 1970s, a group of urbane, happily bourgeois erstwhile liberal intellectuals seized up in horror at the radical rabble that had recently edged its way into the center of their political culture. It was the end of a season in which alienated, politically committed members of the upper-middle class imagined some commonality between their own aspirations and those of, say, black nationalists or the countercultural avant-garde. Tom Wolfe’s famo…

Pence Meets With One of Putin’s Top Clerics: Strange Bedfellows at BGEA’s World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians

By Chrissy Stroop

Yesterday, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence made headlines for his appearance at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians, where he proclaimed Christians to be among the most persecuted people in the world. While there are parts of the world where the persecution of religious minorities, including Christians, is a real problem, the United States is not one of them. Russia, on the other hand, has e…

Faith or Trauma: Questioning the Motivation of the Fort Hood Shooter

By Louise A. Cainkar

Major Nidal Hasan is undergoing social construction in the American mainstream media. Here we have a man who engaged in mass killing, a type of event we experience every few years in the United States. Questions abound as to what drove him to commit these acts, but a rush to connect his actions with Islamic extremism is irresponsible. Major Hasan enlisted and became an active duty Army officer in 1997. He had to have known by then that there was…

Prophetess Juanita Bynum: Hardly “Redefined”

By Jonathan L. Walton

In late 2007, I penned an “Open Letter to Televangelist Prophetess Juanita Bynum.” The letter was in response to what many perceived as Bynum’s self-serving behavior after having been the unfortunate victim of domestic violence. My letter simply compiled and articulated the suggestions of many anti-violence activists at the time. Rather than fall back to the sensationalist proclivities of televangelists, which for Bynum included selling her story…