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The disgraced preacher takes the “kingdom” to the next level of church pimping.

New poll from Public Policy Polling.

Rich’s approach to her religious identity was of a piece with her approach to every aspect of her identity. For Rich, any identity worth achieving involved struggle and resistance—be it national identity (“a patriot is one who wrestles for the / soul of her country / as she wrestles for her own being”), gender identity (“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. / The beak that grips her, she becomes.”), or the committed poet’s identity (“She cannot teach the end of bonds; but she can refuse to justify, accord with, ignore their existence”).

Or maybe just the “gay,” a pastor argues…

Public opinion is more complex than his own.

Eager to note that a witch story involved a Glenda in Salem, many seem to have missed what’s actually disturbing about it.

Did Big Apple conservatives reject Beck’s prophetic turn?

Which is troubling. Sort of.

Last Tuesday, just days before Idaho became one of a handful states to see a record high in new COVID-19 cases, 15 Republican members of the Idaho House of Representatives went rogue, gathering in the…

“Despite a large missionary force and a persistent emphasis on growth,” Phillips and Cragun write, “Mormons are actually treading water with respect to their per capita presence in the U.S.” In fact, additional studies by Cragun and Phillips show that retention rates of young people (young men especially) raised Mormon have dropped substantially in the last decade.