The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life has released a comprehensive survey of more than 1,000 Mormons…
An uncomfortable spotlight
Mormonism
Mormon ad campaign and the 2012 election
In the hit Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, Elder Price sings about how he believes that "ancient Jews built…
A historian’s reaction to American Grace
David Campbell's and Robert Putnam's American Grace left me historically puzzled on my first reading, and my second didn't clear things up.…
American religion in the era of Fosdick’s revenge
Is bland beautiful? Almost never, most of us would say. But when it comes to religion in a diverse society,…
A Cold War choir
On Sunday, The New York Times featured an article on the significance of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s "Operation Telstar" performance…
The future of Mormonism
Patheos has launched, as the latest installment in its "Future of Religion" series, a discussion on the future of Mormonism.
Reflections on Mormon feminism
The editors of Scholaristas---a new blog on women's religious history---have launched, as their inaugural forum, a discussion of the 1971…
8: The Mormon Proposition
Joanna Brooks, a scholar of religion who grew up in a conservative Mormon household, writes about Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage,…
Beck, Falwell and “Christian America”
Back in 2004, evangelical educator Richard Mouw brought a message of friendship and reconciliation to Mormon America, speaking to a…