“They’re here, they’re square, get used to it!”
Read a June 15, 2011, blog post at The Economist magazine on Mormons.
Category: Congregations
“As ‘Book of Mormon’ takes New York, city gets Mormon church ad campaign”
Read about the LDS billboard ad in Times Square on CNN’s Belief blog.
E.J. Dionne Jr.
E.J. Dionne Jr. is a senior fellow for governance studies at the Brookings Institution. His books include, as co-editor, What’s God Got to Do With the American Experiment?
“Huntsman Makes His Pitch to Social Conservatives”
Read a post from Time‘s Swampland blog about Huntsman’s June 2011 speech to the Faith and Freedom Conference.
“A President’s Faith Matters: An Interview with Warren Cole Smith”
In a June 9, 2011, interview at Patheos, evangelical Warren Cole Smith answered the many critics of an earlier column he wrote explaining why he and other evangelicals should not support a Mormon candidate. A blog post at The Salt Lake Tribune parses the original column and provides links to alternate views.
“Understanding Jon Huntsman’s distinct brand of Mormonism”
Read a June 21, 2011, story at CNN’s Belief Blog about Jon Huntsman’s Mormonism.
“Who’s afraid of Mitt Romney’s Mormonism?”
Read an Oct. 3, 2011, column by Michael Gerson in The Washington Post. The piece, in which Gerson says that “A portion of conservative Christianity is unhinged in its condemnation, regarding Mormonism as a dangerous, secretive cult,” ran several days before pastor Robert Jeffress’ recent comments about the LDS church.
“Why Do Southerners Call Mormonism a Cult? A brief history of anti-Mormonism”
Read “Why Do Southerners Call Mormonism a Cult? A brief history of anti-Mormonism,” an Oct. 10, 2011, interview at Religion Dispatches with Patrick Q. Mason, a leading scholarly expert on anti-Mormonism.
Barbara Brown Zikmund
Barbara Brown Zikmund is a historian and a fellow at the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Her research and writing has focused on the role of women in the church, the evolution of 20th-century Protestant denominations (with special attention to the United Church of […]