Editor Kristine Haglund was tapped for quotes on Mormon motherhood in light of the remarks on Ann Romney’s motherhood in both Buzzfeed and Slate:
“The strong prescription that women should not work seemed more jarring in a social context in which women’s right to participate more fully in the economy was starting to seem well-established,” said Kristine Haglund, a feminist and editor at liberal Mormon journal Dialogue.
Mormon scholars representing a myriad of subjects congregate at the new blog Peculiar People, with consistently impressive results. Recent offerings include Dialogue contributor Taylor Petrey asking “Is Mormonism Ridiculous?” Ryan Tobler follows up with a similarly provocative question of “Is Mormonism ‘Bad Religion?‘” Mormon food historian Kate Holbrook gives us a peek at “My Emergency Shelf.” And right in time for Memorial Day comes David Howlett’s look at “A Mormon Massacre Site and Places within a Space.” And keep scrolling through the archives for other fascinating posts as well as bookmark the site for future fascinating explorations in Mormon studies.
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Editor Kristine Haglund joins fellow panelists Jordan Kimball and Katie Davis Henderson in a new Mormon Matters podcast on “Growing Up Mormon–and Fearless.” They discuss how their intellectual and spiritual minds were groomed while growing up in faithful homes where questions were encouraged and discussed. Haglund explains how this helps her now with her own children: “I like the idea of letting my kids ask their own questions, that’s definitely the way it went in my family. It wasn’t that my father was assigning us questions to think about or asking us the hard questions…it happened more organically. It was more about our 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 ask questions and that things aren’t scary, even the hard things.”
This week a controversial article on “How Mormons Make Money” broke at Businessweek. Two Mormon media voices provided measured responses, spotlighting the tension between Mormon scriptural injunctions and Mormon business practices, but showcasing important subtler nuances.
First Joanna Brooks explains “Another lost opportunity was Winter’s failure to pursue with any insight or curiosity the question of what motivates 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 is motivated…by the need to create an endowment capable of sustaining the global physical infrastructure of Mormonism (temples, churches, universities) even as the bulk of the Church’s population shifts to the global south and tithing revenues flatline or even drop.”
Dialogue is pleased to present Gregory Prince’s beautiful interview with Sister Chieko Okazaki from the Spring 2012 issue in noting the one-year anniversary of her passing this week.
In it, she explains: “Now your question, in relation to women, I think that women feel that they need to know every law and every principle of the gospel, and have to live it, so that they can be more perfect. They’re hard on themselves because they’re not already perfect. Whenever I speak, I try to share this principle with them: “I’m not perfect, but I try to live the principle as best I can.When I see that I can improve, I try to do that.”
And for other tributes to Sister Okazaki, see this recent blog compilation at Things of My Soul, wherein Ray includes a touching post by Dialogue Editor Kristine Haglund’s uncle Bruce Haglund on “Remembering Chieko Okazaki.“
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In a blog post for the Huffington Post, Samuel Brown offers up three points that he explains often, and most recently by John G. Turner in a New York Times piece “are commonly misunderstood.” Brown explains
“First, some Mormons are racist.
Second, some Mormons are not racist.
Third, whether Mormon church leaders should issue an institutional apology for the prior policy of racial exclusion is about more than just racism.”
Click in for a fuller examination of these points to which Brown concludes…
Patheos hosted an online roundtable discussion deconstructing the “Mormon Moment” with pieces from Matthew Bowman, James Faulconer, Terryl and Fiona Givens, Emily Jensen, Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Patrick Mason, Neylan McBaine, Richard Mouw, Nathan Oman, and John Turner.
Patheos introduce it this way: “the year 2012 was in many ways the Year of the Mormons. Several national magazines devoted cover stories to the minority faith, and reporters sought to re-interpret the young religion for a broad audience. The candidacies of Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman raised the faith’s profile, while a new musical that had little to do with the actual Book of Mormon broke records on Broadway. We invited a panel of experts to comment on the so-called “Mormon Moment”: What does it mean for the church, its adherents, for the media, and for religion in America?”
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