Softening the Trauma Response Between Current and Former Members
Stepping away from a community of faith hurts in both directions. Could a deeper recognition of that pain help draw our hearts together again?
Tag: Anti-Mormon
New Yorker’s Odd Swipe at the Church
The New Yorker published a story last week about the authorship and provenance of the 1971 book Go Ask Alice. The book is presented as the diary of a teenage girl, but a new book suggests that it was composed by Beatrice Sparks,...
Demanding Conversations About Violence
In the weeks since the premiere of the Under the Banner of Heaven miniseries, there has been a broad consensus that the show doesn’t quite work. Its attempt to paint Latter-day Saints as promoting violence just...
The Ordinary Saint’s Guide to Under the Banner of Heaven: Episode 4, “Church and State”
Summary — The episode begins with the detectives checking in on Bishop Low’s home, which they find ransacked and deserted. Pyre finds a letter written by Ron’s wife to the Prophet expressing concern about her husband’s refusal...
Hysterical Comedy about Missionary Repeatedly Raped Announced
Despite the reality of overwhelmingly peaceful Latter-day Saints, an odd cultural relic continues to portray members of the Church of Jesus Christ as violent. This is the main thesis in the recent series Under the Banner of...
The New Yorker Falls to Old Anti Tropes
Drawing your attention to this piece published yesterday in the New Yorker, “Our Obsession with Ancestry Has Some Twisted Roots.” The article has some interesting insights but ultimately tries to paint the Church of...
Hebrew Summer Camps, Utah Jazz, and a Helplessly Biased “Journalist”
Last week the Times of Israel asked, “Why do the Utah Jazz, in the Mormon capital, play ‘Hava Nagila’ after wins?” The answer is complicated. The song was first written in 1918, and the author soon moved to Cincinati...
