Showing posts with label Mormonism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mormonism. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

The Roseanne Débacle: Time to Talk About Roseanne's Roots in Salt Lake City and Mormon Culture?

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Literally all that Roseanne had to do was NOT call a black woman a monkey and she... just.... couldn't 😂😂 White supremacy is a he...
Thursday, January 7, 2016

More on the Religious Roots of What's Happening in Oregon: Mr. Bundy Cites Scripture

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More in the yes-it- does -have-religious-roots category, re: what's happening in Oregon right now:
Tuesday, January 5, 2016

LDS Church Dissociates Itself from Bundys: More on Mormon Connection to Oregon "White Privilege Performance Art"

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Yesterday, I wrote about how one of the fascinating aspects of the way in which non-mainstream sources, at least, are reporting abou...
Monday, January 4, 2016

With Bundy Family in a New Standoff with Federal Government, Ties to Extreme Right-Wing Mormonism Finally Being Noted (Plus Scalia on Religion in Government)

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Should we call them Mormon extremists? After writing this, I'm legitimately thinking we should. #bundymilitia https://t.co/6rm4AcJlB...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

Mormon Doubters: A New York Times Report

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Laurie Goodstein's article  in today's New York Times  about Mormons who now have doubts regarding their faith due to what they d...
Friday, October 12, 2012

The Softer and Gentler Mitt Romney? Testimony from the Mormon Community

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And, again, not unrelated to the excerpts I have just posted from Joanna Brooks's The Book of Mormon Girl   and Margaret Farley...

Joanna Brooks Documents LDS Church's Savage Repression of Feminists, Scholars, and Gays in 1990s: Mormon-Catholic Parallels

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In her book entitled  The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith  (NY: Free Press, 2012), Joanna Brooks documents what ha...
Friday, June 29, 2012

Mitt's Mormonism: A Mormon Journalist Asks for Serious Discussion

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I honestly know little about Mormons.  In the evangelical-dominated community in which I grew up, Mormons were a minuscule and fairly h...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Joanna Brooks: Mormon Leaders Also Using Religious Freedom Rhetoric to Attack Gay Rights

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Since the new year began, I've been writing about a theme that Pope Benedict moved to the center of Catholic magisterial rhetoric in ...
Saturday, November 15, 2008

One Great Fellowship of Love: Mormons and Catholics United

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In all the fallout over what happened in California with proposition 8, I think we must not lose sight of a modern-day miracle. With signs ...
Thursday, September 4, 2008

Theocracy Redivivus: Standing on the Recycled Promises

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Yesterday, the National Catholic Reporter website uploaded a Religion News Service article by David Finnigan entitled “McCain to Make Full-...