I’m not certain if I attended a church service this weekend in Atlanta, or a prizefight. Eddie Long’s defiant “But this thing I’m gon’ fight” rang out in the 10,000 seat New Birth complex amidst shouts of…
This Sunday, an 80-year-old woman in Ireland, Jennifer Sleeman, won’t be attending church. She hopes that other Catholic women in Ireland will join her: “Stay at home and pray for change.”
The premise that Religious Studies was a weak blend of esotericism and elitism prior to recent years—but is reviving through putting all that in the past—is wrong on factual grounds. More perniciously, if this analysis informs institutional strategies in an era of downsizing, it could be downright dangerous for the future of the discipline.
It was a historic event for LGBT Mormons and their allies when, on the morning of Sunday, September 19, Elder Marlin K. Jensen took the time to listen to and apologize for the stories of pain and hurt suffered by LGBT Mormons and non-Mormons.