Thoroughly Modern Mormons
What’s the real story on 21st-century Mormonism? Visit the new Church-owned City Creek Mall on LDS General Conference weekend.
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Romney Faces Sticky Questions about LDS “Doctrines” on Race
And a note for journalists covering the LDS Church.
Read MoreHow NOT to Investigate Mitt Romney’s Mormon Ties
Don’t think fringe movement, think multinational corporation.
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Apocalypse Now and Then: Our Global Death Wish
What ought we do about millennial thinking in our day? If the combined 1300 pages of these two books have taught me anything, it’s that we can’t make it just go away. There is something fascinating, and perverse, in the human psyche that seems to yearn for this world to be other than how it is, even if that means destroying it.
Read MoreThe End of Michele Bachmann?
Even Republicans can’t stomach her Islamophobic conspiracy theories.
Read MoreNC Pastor Says Gays Should Be “Penned Up With a Fence”
Last night on MSNBC I discussed this with Martin Bashir.
Read MoreEvangelicals Struggle With the Role of Churches in Society
Some people think that evangelicals only do charity out of a selfish desire to convert non-believers. Others insist that evangelical faith-based organizations are secretly installing a Christian theocracy. Both assumptions are misguided in my view because they are too narrow. Moral Ambition seeks to broaden (and refine) our sense of what everyday evangelicals believe they are doing, or would like to be doing, when they engage the public sphere.
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Abortion’s Not in Kansas Anymore?
The majority of abortion clinics in Kansas, given less than 2 weeks to comply with new toilet and closet size regulations, would have shut their doors but for a federal judge’s 11th-hour temporary decision to block the regulations. Was it really safety or a backdoor attempt to end abortion in the state?
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Kirk Cameron’s Monumental Reveals Subtle Influence of Christian Reconstructionism
The documentary serves as a good illustration of the gradual and subtle influence of R. J. Rushdoony’s work in the broader culture—often in places where his name is completely unknown.
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‘Personhood’ Agenda is Theocracy
I call this campaign “theocratic” as a Baptist minister who holds all human life to be sacred. But issues around human life are not as simple as the “personhood” proponents believe.
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