Introducing Religion & Politics
May 3, 2012[…] may be an accurate way to frame a large part of Romney’s presidential campaign résumé. After all, for over fourteen years, he was one of the most powerful Mormons in New England, first as […]
[…] may be an accurate way to frame a large part of Romney’s presidential campaign résumé. After all, for over fourteen years, he was one of the most powerful Mormons in New England, first as […]
[…] Book of Mormon Girl: Stories From an American Faith Author: Joanna Brooks Publisher: Self published (but not for long…) Genre: Memoir Year: 2012 Pages: 204 Binding: Paperback ISBN13: 9780615593449 Price: $11.99 Reviewed by Blair […]
[…] new memoir (“This brings me to what I understand to be the heart of the matter, especially for Mormon readers of Brooks’s book: the tension between personal and institutional revelation; or, questions of authority.”) […]
[…] new. Sounds like a nice little project you got there, yes. Wait, what?! We’ve had the BoM for over a century now, what can we possibly have missed in all this time? Keep in […]
[…] width=”150″ height=”229″ />Announced in the just-released Summer 2012 issue, Dialogue’s Best of 2011 Awards. For Best Article: Taylor Petrey,“Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology”–Winter For Fiction: David G. Pace, “American Trinity”–Summer […]
[…] and the jury will return shortly with the verdict. The problem is that we all too often forget we’re all incapable of constructing, let alone judging between, contrasting claims about our past in an […]
[…] alt=”” width=”116″ height=”200″ />Stephen Taysom, The Patheos Guide to Mormonism (Series Editor Kathleen Mulhern), available in e-book formats for $2.99. For details, see this website. Reviewed by Kevin Barney Remember when you were […]
[…] questions than his. So I try to do that with my own family, I try not to force my own questions on them…I mostly try to model fearlessness to them. They know that I […]
[…] the past few years to turn his professors’ skepticism into inquiry: “I have received requests from colleagues for a selection of readings that might be used profitably in courses dealing with Mormonism,” Taysom reports […]
[…] Mormon enterprise…The faith has a 170-year-long history of seeking economic self-sufficiency, motivated at first by Mormons’ desire for autonomy from a hostile mainstream and by necessity engendered by their western isolation. Today, that drive […]