On Sunday, The New York Times featured an article on the significance of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s “Operation Telstar” performance at Mount Rushmore, nearly fifty years ago. Telstar was the communications satellite through which U.S. programmers, in a “now nearly forgotten salvo of the cold war,” sent “a blast of American culture and technological prowess aimed at Europe,” on July 23, 1962.
Posts Tagged ‘Mormonism’
August 10th, 2010
The future of Mormonism
posted by David WalkerPatheos has launched, as the latest installment in its “Future of Religion” series, a discussion on the future of Mormonism.
August 3rd, 2010
Reflections on Mormon feminism
posted by David WalkerThe editors of Scholaristas—a new blog on women’s religious history—have launched, as their inaugural forum, a discussion of the 1971 “Pink Issue” of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Now approaching its fortieth anniversary, the publication of that issue “marked the beginning of a resurgence of Mormon feminism and an increased interest in women’s history.
June 23rd, 2010
8: The Mormon Proposition
posted by Jake AlterJoanna Brooks, a scholar of religion who grew up in a conservative Mormon household, writes about Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage, which she argues is regularly ignored by progressive Americans as fringe politics.
April 29th, 2010
Beck, Falwell and “Christian America”
posted by John SchmalzbauerBack in 2004, evangelical educator Richard Mouw brought a message of friendship and reconciliation to Mormon America, speaking to a packed house at the Salt Lake City Tabernacle. Apologizing for the way conservative Protestants had treated Mormons, Mouw said, “We evangelicals have sinned against you.” Six years later, a very different speaker will cross over in the other direction. On May 15, Mormon broadcaster Glenn Beck will deliver the commencement address at Liberty University, the Virginia school founded by the late Jerry Falwell.
July 15th, 2008
Polyandry now!
posted by Jimmy Casas KlausenI wonder about those Lost Boys of fundamentalist Mormonism, the boys ejected as teenagers from their families and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS): how do they make their lives intelligible to themselves?
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