What Most Critics Missed About Dustin Lance Black’s ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’
At the Salt Lake City premiere of Under the Banner of Heaven, writer, director, and…
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FX’s ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ Adaptation Rejects Reductive Elements of Krakauer’s Book, But Confirms That ‘Mormonism Breeds Dangerous Men’
I was a twenty-year-old missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in…
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Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era
Their decision to participate in Trump’s inauguration epitomizes the Church’s priority of fitting within their surrounding culture, even at the expense of contrasting and competing values.
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Mormon Leaks: Boring Meetings with Interesting Implications
The leaked Mormon videos show a serious regression in the denomination’s theology.
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Why Utah Felt the Bern: Mormonism’s Forgotten Progressive Past
This week, Utah and Idaho delivered Bernie’s largest margin of victories in the Democratic primaries…
Read MoreHow Mormon is Mitt Romney? Over 50 Jokes For Trump
Mitt is so Mormon his campaign slogan was “What do you know about Mitt Romney? Would you like to know more?”
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#VanillaISIS, White Tears and the Adventures of Captain Moroni
Reading between the hashtags as Twitter responds to the Oregon standoff.
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“Equality is Not a Feeling”
LDS Church turns away women seeking equality and access to men’s-only meeting.
Read MoreMormons Absorb SCOTUS Prop 8 Ruling
Progressives celebrate, conservatives stake out the “religious freedom” defense, but the true lessons of Prop 8 for Mormons have yet to be absorbed.
Read More“We Want Everyone to Come to the Family Reunion”
Mormons Building Bridges—one year after its SLC Pride Parade debut.
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